Should the Manuals be Saved?

It’s a campaign begun years ago, as automatic transmissions began to become standard equipment on new cars, replacing, um, standard transmissions.  “Save the Manuals” is the rallying cry. But I don’t buy into it. My first car was a stick, and as I write, my latest...

In Praise of the First Year Car Show

This might sound a little sacrilegious, but bear with me. Sometimes, long-running car shows are boring. Yeah, I said it. I have a handful of car shows I’ve been attending for literal decades, and I can name what kind of car is going to be in which spot before I even...

Gentleman Racing into the New Car Hobby

WILDWOOD, NJ – It is one hundred degrees in the sun, as vintage hot rods pull up to the starting line for the 2017 Race of Gentlemen event on the beach, but the crowds stretch down the sand dunes and fill the libations tent undeterred by the weather. They shout as...

The New Frontier (Museum)

We chatted with Jeff Wandler, owner of The Frontier Auto Museum in Wyoming, to talk business, vintage toys and classic car nostalgia! Can you tell us a little about the Wandler family’s early involvement in the car industry and the area? Simply Leon Wandler was born...

The Greenwich Concours d’Elegance – Same Dynasty, New Blood

GREENWICH, CT – June 3rd and 4th marked the 21st anniversary of the Greenwich Concours d’Elegance in Roger Sherman Baldwin Park, a car show dedicated to the most elegant, most influential and most beautiful cars history has to offer. Though rain threatened...

Across the Sound and Worlds Apart

Recently, members of the CarShowSafari team went off in different directions on the same day.  Although only the sound separated their destinations, that body of water was perhaps the only thing those destinations had in common.  Here are the divergent stories. Each...