Vanderbilt Cup Races

Tag: 1900 Newport Races

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  Mar 22 2023

  Greg O’s Garage; Willie K.‘s Racing Records

  Wliie K's racing records from 'The Log of my Motor'

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  Feb 11 2023

  Video: The Preservation Society of Newport County Fall 2022 Lecture:  The Advent of the Automobile including The Incredible Vanderbilt Cup Races

  The Preservation Society of Newport County has posted a 90-minute video of their Fall 2023 lecture.

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  Oct 05 2022

  The Preservation Society of Newport County Fall 2022 Lecture:  The Advent of the Automobile including The Incredible Vanderbilt Cup Races

  Over 75 people attended The Preservation Society of Newport County's Fall Gilded Age event including my presentation" The Incredible Vanderbilt Cup Races: The Road from Newport to Long Island." More than 100 people also participated by Zoom.

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  Mar 29 2021

  Mystery Foto #13 Solved: 1900 Daimler Phoenix previously owned by Willie K.

  Art Kleiner challenged you to identify this weekend's Mystery Foto.

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  Aug 10 2011

  VanderbiltCupRaces Exclusive: The 1900 Newport Automobile Races & the First Vanderbilt Cup Trophy

  The first major race in which William K. Vanderbilt Jr. competed was held in September 1900 in Newport, Rhode Island. It was also at this race where the first William K.Vanderbilt Jr. cup was given to a winner of an automobile race...four years before the Long Island Vanderbilt Cup Races.

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  Sep 02 2010

  Willie K.‘s Cars #1: The 1900 23-HP Daimler “White Ghost”

  From 1900 to 1905, William K. Vanderbilt , Jr was a pioneering race car driver, competing succesfully in the United States and Europe. Willie's K's racing career and his racing cars will be documented in a new VanderbiltCupRaces.com series "Willie K.'s Cars".