Car Show Road Trip

A summer road trip always offers the opportunity for discovery.  This summer, on a trip where we planned to visit two car shows, we discovered a third along the way. The planned shows were the 46th annual convention of the Corvair Society of America and the 58th...

Bryan Clauson: The Instantaneous Cruelty of Racing

On Sunday, August 7, Bryan Clauson, an Indiana native and a grassroots dirt-track racer who made it to the Indy 500 and who in 2016 set a personal goal of competing in 200 races, succumbed to injuries suffered in a vicious crash during the running of the 39th annual...

MADness: Driving a Microcar in Modern Traffic

When we at CarShowSafari.com proclaimed Friday, June 17, 2016, to be Microcar Appreciation Day, not long thereafter we were contacted by a Microcar owner who offered to allow us to drive his car!  How could we not accept?  We appreciate Microcars (as we do all cars)...

The Indianapolis Not-Quite-Nine

When the checkered flag waves over the winner of the 100th Indianapolis 500 this Sunday, it will, as is customary, signify the end of the race.  But it was not always so. In the early years of the 500, when the winner crossed the finish line, the race would continue...

For Want of a Nail, the Jeep was Lost

A shortage of steering wheels threw a wrench into production of the Jeep Cherokee and the Grand Cherokee this week, with production shifts being canceled or shortened at Fiat Chrysler’s Toledo North Assembly Plant in Ohio and the Jefferson North Assembly Plant...