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The Subtle Rise of the Self-Driving Car
While we are a far ways from the Jetsons and the co-piloting your own car experience, the truth is that self-driving technology has infiltrated our cars and our lives in unique and extremely effective ways
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So You Want to Have a Car Show
While a cold front may have descended upon most of the United States, it’s not too early to start planning out the most important elements of your upcoming car show, cruise night, cars and coffee or concours. Today, we’re here to help you find the perfect location.
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Aren’t Your Glad(iator) There’s a New Jeep Pickup Truck?
The Jeep Wrangler has long been a held up as the symbol of adventure and strength across rough terrain. The seven-slot grille has become synonymous with a top-down, mountain-climbing, sleeping-bags-in-the-back lifestyle that we all love to live vicariously through.
And now they’ve taken it one step further–or maybe one step back.
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CarShowSafari.com looks back on those we lost in 2018 who made a contribution to the world of automobiles and motorsport.
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The Dirt Track is a Fickle Mistress
But racers are a resourceful lot, and they now faced their own challenge: Finding a way to win on the track that lay before them.
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Social Media and Your Car Show
So, with Christmas barreling down upon us in jolly good cheer, why would we think about car shows now? Car show season in the near past and distant future. What can November, December, January mean for our cozy classics tucked in the barn?
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In Car Years
Imagine a world in which Henry Ford had gone from madman tinkering in his garage to a household name with more than 25 assembly lines producing household vehicles for the American people with such ease that a company which had originally produced just a few cars a day did not even notice the one millionth mile marker.
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A Unique Thanksgiving Tradition
Everyone has their Thanksgiving traditions. Dinner with the family, of course, but maybe also going to the Macy’s parade, or listening to Alice’s Restaurant, or watching “Turkey’s Away” from WKRP in Cincinnati. For us, it’s Laurel & Hardy’s 1933 classic March of the Wooden Soldiers and, once the big meal is digested, a trip to Wall Stadium Speedway for the annual Turkey Derby.
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History’s Slowest Winner: The Duryea Motor Wagon
Much of the Duryea brothers’ early success can be attributed to a Thanksgiving morning in that first year 1895, when they proudly wore the title of another first – the first United States auto race where any of the entrants finished.
And finish they did.
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A Sedan By Any Other Name
We may not be able to define crossovers now, but that’s hardly new territory. Car types have had unique and interesting origins since well before the automobile hit the road. Let’s take a look at what a few of them are.
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Editorial
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Review: The Little Car Show, Monterey Car Week 2025
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How did an airplane end up on a car dealer’s lot? Pilots are generally fervent about only selling an aircraft to someone within the flying community. In the case of one Piper Cub being traded toward a new car, it is safe to say that passion was overruled by a greater need.
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Review: Astons on the Avenue, Monterey Car Week 2025
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Since ancient times, change of command ceremonies have marked the formal transfer of authority from one leader to another. In the military, time-honored symbolism is integral to the ceremonial aspects of a change of command, including an inspection and review of personnel, gun salutes, and accompaniment by a military band.
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Cars and airplanes have been photographed together in advertisements almost since the birth of their respective technologies.
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How did an airplane end up on a car dealer’s lot? Pilots are generally fervent about only selling an aircraft to someone within the flying community. In the case of one Piper Cub being traded toward a new car, it is safe to say that passion was overruled by a greater need.
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Since ancient times, change of command ceremonies have marked the formal transfer of authority from one leader to another. In the military, time-honored symbolism is integral to the ceremonial aspects of a change of command, including an inspection and review of personnel, gun salutes, and accompaniment by a military band.
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Cars and airplanes have been photographed together in advertisements almost since the birth of their respective technologies.
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This accompanying article to the 2025 Guide to Monterey contains images of each of the winners of the ultimate prize at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in descending order since the event’s inception in 1950.
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Golfers of any ability or duration instantly recognize Pebble Beach Golf Links’ par-5 18th hole due to its history as one of the top finishing holes in golf. However, since 1950, a large number of non-golfers know it as the location of the climactic end of Monterey Car Week, where each August the award of Best Of Show for the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance takes place.
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