Murphy Auto Museum closing

PRESS RELEASE For immediate release April 15, 2024 Oxnard, California – The Murphy Auto Museum will be permanently closing. The last day for public admittance will be Sunday, July 7, 2024. The museum will use the remaining month of July to sell furniture, fixtures,...

Q&A With Andre Swygert

MEET THE AUTHOR — A Q&A With Andre Swygert  An Aficionado of Things on Land and Air Takes to the Sky (and Water) A new book By A Car Show Safari team member focuses on a decades-long and unique aviation program conducted at the U.S. Naval Academy.  In addition to...

Those We Lost in 2023

Those We Lost 2023 Ken Block, a 23-time winner in the U.S. domestic rallying and a six-time victor in Global Rallycross, and perhaps best known for his Gymkhana series of web videos highlighting his exceptional car control.  Block, 55, died in a snowmobile accident in...

2023 Monterey Car Week and the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance

Illustration of the transition of Concours from carriages to automobiles: at left is a seven-window Dress Coach used on the occasion of the wedding of Napoleon III to Eugenie de Montijo on January 29, 1853, at right a 1937 Delage D8 Letourneur et Marchand Aerodynamic...

A New Height In Publicity, Part 2

Part 1 presented the circumstances concerning the development of the very creative marketing stunt developed by Sunoco in 1935 to promote a new gasoline. The highly unusual nature of this event required that the major players involved possess equally unusual...

A New Height In Publicity, Part 1

Automobiles and airplanes began to develop in parallel starting in the early 20th century, spawning numerous instances in which their respective technologies or products came into direct contact with each other. In some cases, these encounters contributed to the...