The visit to the Bonneville Salt Flats for Speed Week was everything I imagined and more. Not only is the Bonneville Salt Flats one of the wildest places on earth, it is also impossible to fully describe. The place is a stunningly beautiful contrast of endless flat...
On Sunday, August 7, Bryan Clauson, an Indiana native and a grassroots dirt-track racer who made it to the Indy 500 and who in 2016 set a personal goal of competing in 200 races, succumbed to injuries suffered in a vicious crash during the running of the 39th annual...
Hello again! After discussing the many spectacular muscle cars that were out at this year’s Detroit Autorama, I believe it is now time to dive into the heart and soul of the show: hot rods. A long-standing tradition in the States, hot rodding was really...
Zora Arkus-Duntov was many things. The son of Russian Jews during the rise of communism, Arkus-Duntov was a fast-thinking, smart-talking, brash sort, who reveled in upstaging authority just past the point of acceptable. When he set his mind to a task, it was...
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)...
Anyone who has been to enough car shows knows how very different each individual show can be. Yes, they all have cars, obviously. Your experience, however, will vary quite a bit from a hot rod nationals show to a Concours show. At one, you’ll see crowds gather along...
