Vanderbilt Cup Races

Tag: Long Island Automobile Club

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  Mar 15 2024

  Updated: My Long Island Motor Parkway License Plate Collection (3/15/2024)

  Among the most sought-after pieces of Vanderbilia are the porcelain Motor Parkway license plates. From 1912 to 1937, an estimated 7,400 Long Island Motor Parkway license plates were manufactured including 6,700 regular plates and 700 golf club plates.

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  Jun 13 2023

  Greg O’s Garage; What’s for Dinner? The 1901 Annual Long Island Automobile Club Dinner Menu

  A menu found for the annual Long Island Automobile Club dinner in 1901.

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  Nov 28 2022

  Update: Mystery Friday Foto #48 Solved: The 1901 Riker Torpedo setting the one-mile land speed record for electrics in Coney Island

  Did you identify this photo from November 16,1901?

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  Nov 09 2022

  Kleiner’s Korner: Road Signs Erected for the 1905 and 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Races

  Finding one's way in the early days of automobiling was not as easy as plugging an address into a navigation system or even looking at a map. To aid the traveler on Long Island, "Automobile Topics" magazine in October 1905 erected numerous road signs.

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  Mar 13 2018

  Mystery Foto #10 Solved: A 1909 Long Island Automobile Club Membership Cup

  Karen Rose was looking for your assistance in identifying this Long Island racing trophy which she recently purchased at the recent Barrett Jackson auction.

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  Oct 28 2017

  Updated (11/3/17): The Course for the Long Island Automobile Club’s 1902 100-Mile Endurance Test

  On April 26, 1902, the Brooklyn-based Long Island Automobile Club ran the second "One-Hundred Mile Endurance Test on Long Island." In tonight's post, the program's description of the 100-mile course in Queens and Nassau County is featured.

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  Oct 14 2017

  Ads From the Long Island Automobile Club 1902 Offical Program “One-Hundred Mile Endurance Test”

  On April 26, 1902, the Brooklyn-based Long Island Automobile Club ran the second "One-Hundred Mile Endurance Test on Long Island." I recently purchased the official program for this event which was part of a scrapbook owned by W. Wallace Grant, the president of the club.

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  Sep 23 2017

  The 1897 Grant-The Oldest Automobile on Long Island

  At the 1925 Brooklyn Automobile Show, a contest was held to locate the "oldest car on Long Island." The winner was a 1897 Grant created by W. Wallace Grant, the former president of the Long Island Automobile Club.

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  Aug 28 2017

  Updated: Mystery Foto #34 Solved: A Historic Photo of a Road Sign in Front of Max Levi’s Hotel

  My favorite co-author Al Velocci challenged you to solve this weekend's Mystery Foto.

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  Mar 01 2017

  The Oldest Porcelain Road Signs in the United States Posted by the Long Island Automobile Club

  Just months after being founded in October 1900, the Long Island Automobile Club posted 20" x9" porcelain road signs on the major Long Island roads. Each blue and white sign included the club's name and directions to the nearest village(s).