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Greenwich Concours d’Elegance Will Feature Iconic Cars, Motorcycles and Special Events
The lush green lawn of Roger Sherman Baldwin Park overlooking the Greenwich, Conn., harbor on Long Island Sound will be covered by iconic vehicles that embrace style, function and beauty when the Greenwich Concours d’Elegance celebrates its 24th year this weekend, June 1-2.
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Bonnie and Clyde Were Pretty Looking People
Today, in 1934, the famous outlaw couple, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were shot to death in a stolen 1934 Ford Deluxe in Louisiana, after a two-year crime spree through Texas, Louisiana and New Mexico.
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Mario Andretti Came to Town and They Threw a Parade
With May 30 being the 50th anniversary of Mario Andretti’s victory at the Indianapolis 500, it makes perfect sense to talk about July 12.
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Finding the Perfect Vendors
In this latest installment of So You Want to Have a Car Show, we discuss some of the most important vendor options to consider and the best ways to entice attendees and encourage them to stick around.
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Walking to the Car: We Visit the New York International Auto Show
Yet onto this island flow more than 2.5 million vehicles per day, and, thanks to New York being the advertising capital of the world, each year the New York International Auto Show is staged. The first NYIAS took place in 1900, and this year, over the course of a ten-day run, more than a million people will attend the 2019 show.
Us included.
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The Horses Beat the Cars
The Indiana State Fair Commission announced in early April that the Indiana State Fairgrounds will discontinue auto racing at its one-mile oval after one final race, the 2019 Hoosier Hundred. This leaves only two, the DuQuoin State Fairgrounds in Illinois and the Illinois State Fairgrounds in Springfield, as fairgrounds miles that continue to present auto racing.
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NASCAR Doubles Down at Pocono
A great deal of attention has been given to such changes as moving the season finale from Homestead-Miami Speedway in Florida to ISM Raceway in Arizona, and moving the Brickyard 400 to the July 4 weekend. A western swing follows the Daytona 500 and the summer race at Daytona moves to August. Races elsewhere will see date shifts, some to better exploit potential weather conditions and some to exploit interest in the “playoffs.”
But the biggest change, in our view, is the shortening of the racing season by one week, accomplished by combining the two Cup races at Pocono Raceway into a single weekend doubleheader.
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The Safari Effect
Colton Herta won the NTT Indycar Series’ race at the Circuit of the Americas on March 24, thereby putting himself in the record books not only for the victory, his first in an Indycar and the first Indycar race run at the splashy Texas facility, but also for becoming the youngest driver ever to win in an Indycar, just days ahead of his 19th birthday.
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Honey, I Shrunk the Race Track
True, it was no national championship event, and it wasn’t Super Dirt Week, the hugely popular season-ending race that, after more than 40 years, was evicted from the fairgrounds after 2015 and forced to move to the half-mile Oswego Speedway. But it was racing, it was at the New York State Fairgrounds, and by all appearances, it was a success.
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Il Mondo Secondo Gianni Agnelli
On March 12, 1921, Gianni Agnelli was born in Turin, Italy. He was named for his grandfather who, in 1899, founded Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino, the company we know today as FIAT.
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Editorial
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Murphy Auto Museum, Oxnard. CA
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This is a list of the Car Shows you will want to experience before you die.
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Moment of Decision: John's 1963 Corvette Resto-Mod: Choosing whether to Restore or Resto-Mod an older Corvette isn’t always easy.
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I have a certain appreciation for the Edsel. I was not quite six years old when the car was introduced, and as part of the introduction the dealers were offering an incentive: Come test-drive the new Edsel and receive a scale model of the car. My father took the test drive, and I got the scale model.
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Rat Rods and Concours winners
Motorama
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This third installment begins an exploration of Ford Motor Company’s involvement in also building airplanes during WWII by focusing on the story of its facility in Willow Run, MI.
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Henry Ford was able to indulge a long-standing interest in mass-producing airplanes when in 1941 the Ford Motor Company garnered a contract to produce complete B-24 bombers at a specially-built plant in Willow Run, MI.
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It may not be well-known but there is more history of automobile manufacturers who have also produced aircraft, of which Honda is only the most recent example.
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This St. Patrick’s Day, celebrate both Irish pride and the arrival of Spring by taking a drive in your 1959 Shamrock.
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On March 17, 1834, Gottlieb Daimler was born in Germany. Had he been born 100 years later, he would have seen an automotive industry the likes of which early automakers could hardly dare dream, and yet, had he been born 100 years later, that very auto industry might never have come to pass.
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