Hemmings reader Mark Axen recently sent us the link to an excellent site that features information, images and even video of the Vanderbilt Cup Races held on Long Island from 1904-1910. Much of the content for the site comes from the collection of historian and author Howard Kroplick, whose books include The Long Island Motor […]

Bill Schulz recently sent along this photo which he inherited, but which came with absolutely no information that would help him identify the car in it. Bill writes:
If the photo’s from my mother’s side, it’s probably in the Kerhonkson, NY, area. If my father’s, probably somewhere around Poughkeepsie/Pleasant Valley, NY.
That is probably my paternal grandmother […]

Lewis Strang in a Thomas at the French Grand Prix, 1908
Many men participated in the dawn of organized motor racing in the US, and many lived hard and died young. Lewis P. Strang stands shoulder to shoulder with Louis Disbrow, Barney Oldham, Ralph De Palma, David Bruce-Brown, Louis Chevrolet and other titans of the era, […]