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Bryan Clauson: The Instantaneous Cruelty of Racing
On Sunday, August 7, Bryan Clauson, an Indiana native and a grassroots…
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Detroit Autorama Part II!
Detroit is an ideal place to show the cream of the crop in American-built customs.
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The Legend of Zora
First production began on June 30, 1953, and from the start it appeared as though the Chevrolet Corvette was a project best to be forgotten about and written off as a failed flight of fancy.
Zora Arkus-Duntov did not agree.
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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) and here was an opportunity to experience one of them first-hand and share that experience with you.
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Cars and Caffeinated Beverages: Why We Loves a Cars and Coffee
It’s a great idea to see many different types of shows – you never know what you’ll find at even the smallest of shows. For me, a new car show experience came in the form of Cars and Coffee.
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Not Your Neighborhood Concours
Modern, classic, race car, microcar, the Greenwich Concours brings together the rare, wild, and wonderful in a fantastic weekend of automotive history, prestige, and beauty.
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The Race of Gentlemen – A Race for the Ages
The Race of Gentlemen is a visceral, sensory event. One didn’t attend the show, they experienced it. The revving of engines on the line seemed to reverberate through the wild, excited crowd. Hot sun baked our skin, vintage, boozy root beer cooled our throats.
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Detroit Autorama
For a long, long time, American gearheads have held the tradition of hot rodding and customization close to their hearts – If there is one show you absolutely have to check out to see the best of the best in this part of the automotive world, it’s the annual Detroit Autorama.
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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.
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An Ode to Harley Earl and the Concept Car
For more than a few generations of car enthusiasts, it has gone without saying that the new year will bring about beauties and beasts from all corners of the car industry – We can thank Harley Earl for that.
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In the U.S., summer is prime car show season, giving rise to a sense of anticipation and enthusiasm of the local and large-scale events that are held during this period. Car enthusiasts in other countries undoubtedly experience the same feelings, but none more so than in what intuitively may be an unlikely location: Sweden. The land and people that gave us the niche brand Saab along with Volvo, producer of the original yuppie status symbol, are avid show attendees.
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Crown Classics & Exotics - Ventura, CA
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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.
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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