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• Aug 24 2022

  The Queens section of the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race

  Chal Danish: "I am researching Vanderbilt Cup Race history and am seeking the course routes of all the races and especially where it traversed Queens. Exactly where in Queens did it go before returning to Nassau!"!!!

• Aug 11 2021

  Greg O’s Garage; From the Helck Family Collection: The official 1904 Vanderbilt Cup race program

  The complete 1904 race program

• Apr 15 2020

  Road & Track May 1974: Packard Gray Wolf: One of America’s First Lightweight Racers

  The beloved Sam Berliner III has forwarded this 1974 article on the Packard Gray Wolf which competed in the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race.

• Apr 06 2020

  Mystery Foto #14 Solved: The Packard Gray Wolf Takes a Turn During the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race

  This weekend's Mystery Foto featured a significant turn on a Vanderbilt Cup Race course.

• Jul 27 2016

  Translation: October 1904 La Stampa Sportiva: The Vanderbilt Cup

  Professor Pau Medrano Bigas, Professor of Graphic Design at the University of Barcelona, has forwarded several articles on William K. Vanderbilt Jr. and the Vanderbilt Cup Races from the Italian magazine La Stampa Sportiva published from 1902 to 1910.

• Feb 23 2015

  Mystery Foto #8 Solved: The Packard Gray Wolf Approaching the LIRR Crossing in Queens

  This weekend's Mystery Foto documented a rarely photographed location for the Vanderbilt Cup Races.

• Feb 22 2014

  Exclusive Firsthand Account of the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race: “A Very Successful Trip”

  Walter Gosden has discovered an original October 11, 1904 letter from"Nephew Harvey Bell" to his "Uncle John" describing his adventures in a US Long Distance automobile to watch the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race.

• Jul 20 2013

  Then & Now: The Hempstead Control For the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race

  Joe Oesterle: Do you know exactly where these old pictures (of the Hempstead Control) were taken?

• Jul 16 2013

  The Hempstead Control in the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race

  The 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race consisted of ten laps of the 30-mile course with controls in Hicksville and Hempstead.

• Jul 06 2013

  Then & Now: The Massapequa Turn for the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race

  One of the most exciting locations to watch the first Vanderbilt Cup Race was the turn from Massapequa-Hicksville Road onto the new Bethpage-Hempstead Turnpike in present day Plainedge. Here's the "Then & Now."

• Oct 08 2012

  108th Anniversary of the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race

  Monday marked the 108th anniversary of the first Vanderbilt Cup Race on October 8, 1904. In celebration of this historic race, here are the two-minute American Biograph film of the race and several of my favorite 1904 race images.

• Aug 14 2012

  CSI Challenge: How Many People Attended the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race?

  The CSI (Cup Scene Investigation) Team of VanderbiltCupRaces.com has been asked to estimate the number of people who actually attended the six Vanderbilt Cup Races held on Long Island. First up, the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race held on a 30.24-mile triangular course in Nassau County and Queens.

• Dec 12 2011

  Starting Lineup: The 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race

  Eighteen racers participated in the first Vanderbilt Cup Race held on October 8, 1904. Photos of 17 of the 18 entrants at the Westbury starting line on Jericho Turnpike are shown here for the first time. The #10 Fiat arrived late at the starting line and began with a running…

• Apr 09 2011

  The Packard Gray Wolf- One of America’s First Lightweight Racers

  One of the five American entries in the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race was the 30-HP lightweight dirt-track Packard Gray Wolf. Driven by its designer Charles Schmidt, the first Packard racer had previously set one-mile and five-mile records in January 1904.

• Mar 31 2011

  Peter Helck’s Packard Gray Wolf Cover Painting for The Packard Cormorant

  In celebration of their Silver Anniversary, the Packard Club commissioned Peter Helck in 1978 to create a special cover painting for The Packard Cormorant, their official magazine.

• Aug 01 2010

  Archives: 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race

  Links to posts related to the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race (Updated: December 31, 2011):

• Mar 04 2008

  Film “1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race”

  Welcome to VanderbiltCupRaces.com! In one of the earliest sports films ever made, the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race action was captured by cameramen G.W. Bitzer and A.E. Weed of the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company in Westbury and Plainedge.