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Dec 21 2012
Race Profile: The 1910 Massapequa Sweepstakes
For the 1910 races, three simultaneous races were held, with the running of the Massapequa and Wheatley Hills Sweepstakes with the Vanderbilt Cup Race. (2 comments)
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Nov 05 2012
The 1960 Cornelius Vanderbilt Cup Race at Roosevelt Raceway, Westbury, NY
Sixteen years after William K. Vanderbilt II passed away in 1944 of heart failure, race promoters were still trying to leverage the legacy of his great race.
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Aug 30 2012
Race Profile: 1909 Massapequa Sweepstakes
During the 1909 Vanderbilt Cup Race, two other sweepstakes races (the Massapequa Sweepstakes and the Wheatley Hills Sweepstakes ) were run simultaneously for commercially available stock cars. The Massapequa Sweepstakes had six entrants for the smallest stock cars with engines 161 to 230 cubic inches. (6 comments)
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Aug 06 2012
Race Profile: The 1905 American Elimination Trial
According to the Vanderbilt Cup Race rules, America could enter a maximum of five automobiles in the 1905 race. On September 23, 1905, the American Elimination Trial was held to determine the five entries from 12 American candidates.
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Jul 14 2012
Race Profile: 1915 Vanderbilt Cup Race in San Francisco, California
In 1915 both the Vanderbilt Cup Race and the American Grand Prize were held in conjunction with the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, California.
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Jul 06 2012
Race Profile: The 1906 American Elimination Trial
As in 1905, an American Elimination Trial determined the five racers to represent the United States in the Vanderbilt Cup Race. Of 16 entries, 12 cars survived the practice runs to race on Saturday, September 22, 1906.
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Jun 29 2012
A New Book by Joel E. Finn: The 1912 Milwaukee Races: Vanderbilt Cup and Grand Prize
Just in time for its 100th anniversary, race historian Joel E. Finn has written a wonderful book on the 1912 Vanderbilt Cup Race and 1912 Grand Prix held in Milwaukee. (3 comments)
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Jun 23 2012
First Races on the Long Island Motor Parkway: The 1908 Motor Parkway Sweepstakes
When the Long Island Motor Parkway was completed in October 1908, the first race using the completed 9 miles of the road was not the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race, but a series of five concurrent races called the Motor Parkway Sweepstakes. The story of these races and photo highlights are…
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Feb 04 2012
Race Profile: 1936 Vanderbilt Cup Race
A summary of the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup Race- an attempt to revive racing on Long Island.
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Jan 06 2012
Article “The 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race” by Peter Helck
For the 1948 Veteran Motor Club of America Antique Auto Show, prominent artist Peter Helck, then owner of "Old 16", wrote an article on the Vanderbilt Cup Races for the official program. Supplemented by photos from the book "Vanderbilt Cup Races of Long Island", this is Helck's colorful description of…
Ariejan, good question!
The photo was from a Motor Parkway article in a road engineering magazine.
Howard