Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A wonderful painting of Howard Kroplick in the Alco Black Beast by Joe Pep
Did you identify this weekend's Mystery Foto?
Answers to the Mystery Foto questions
Identify the following:
- The very handsome driver
Howard Kroplick
- The race car
The Alco Black Beast
- The artist Hint: The artist's work appeared on this website in 2021.
Joe Pep, former art director for Archie Comics an designer of the Tucker 1004 cover for the first issue of Richard Lentinello's Crankshaft magazine.
Comments (11)
Congrats to Greg O., Rosemary Lucas, Meredith Jaffe, Al Prete, Dick Gorman, Mark Thomas, Frank Krawiecki, Steve Lucas, Brian McCarthy, Ken Payne and Frank Femenias for identifying me in the Black Beast.
No kudos this week, since everyone missed the wonderful artist Joe Pep.
Enjoy,
Howard Kroplick
Close-Ups
Joe Pep (aka Joe Pepitone)
Joe Pep's ad incorporated his Tucker 1044 artwork in issue #1. Note the name and address of the Tucker dealership.
Comments
That would be you in the Black Beast, but as a guess on the artist, I’ll go with Robert Carter since he has already done one with you in the Beast.
I am becoming addicted to the mystery photos but I leave the actual guessing up to my Hubby Steve. This is a wonderful rendition of Howard driving my favorite The Black Beast !
Howard Kroplick driving the Alco Black Beast. But, who’s the artist?
Who is that handsome man at the wheel of the Black Beast? Looks like the keeper of this website! Sorry I don’t know artists, so I don’t know who painted it, but it’s a beautiful painting.
Mystery Foto # 24…The driver is Eddie Rickenbacker in the Maxwell at the 1916 Indy 500, ISN’T IT?????????????????....
OH WAIT, NOOOO! It’s Howard Kroplick in the Alco Black Beast (Bete Noire).
With fingers crossed, I want to say the artist is Jack Juratovic.
it is Howard Kroplick,
in the tv series the men who built america
alco 8 racer
regards, Mark
What a wonderful tribute to Howard at the wheel of his Alcohol Black Beast!
That looks like the famous author and “One-of” automobile collector driving his equally famous ALCO Black Beast racer. Could the artist be Robert Carter?
*Race Driver: Howard Kroplick, a gentleman of many interests.
*Race Car: 1909 Alco - 6 “Black Beast”
*Artist: Robert Carter. Howard was delighted to find a painting of he and the black beast while perusing the internet. Robert’s painting was inspired by Howard’s role as Alexander Winton in the History Channel Series- The Men Who Built America. I believe Henry Ford challenged Mr. Winton in a race to see how well his Ford could perform. Robert left Henry in the dust.
Might it be someone with the initials “HK” driving the Black Beast. Pretty cool pic.
Racer/owner Howard Kroplick behind the wheel of his legendary 1909 Alco-6 Locomobile racer (The Black Beast), which won the 1909 and 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Races here on Long Island. Superb detail by the artist! I believe this painting was produced during or after the filming of “Men who built America.” Location is at intersection of I.U. Willets Rd and Guinnea Woods Rd looking west during the summer of 1910. I need to research the artist though.
Amazing accurate depiction of the Black Beast by Dick Gorman! Thanks for this rare view of the racer.
mystery pix—probably ca. 1910, northeast USA [Long Island?] unlabelled, from my grandmother’s albums.
From my late grandmother’s photo album—unlabelled, but probably ca. 1910, probably somewhere in the northeast USA [maybe Long Island; Vanderbilt Cup??]. Perhaps a National racer—note number on side of the tank and the rear spare tire, among other things. I’m including all the related photo images—note what appears to be airborne balloons in one general view.
Holy Canoley Robert, these are excellent images! If you haven’t done already, would you mind directly emailing these great photos to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) What a treasure!
Great photos Robert! If those can be scanned, I’m sure the collective group here can identify most, if not all of the Cup Race locations and cars in the photos.
Great painting of Howard and great photos from Robert!