For all of us north easterners, (and a healthy part of the rest of the country as well,) November signals the tail end of the last hurrah of the most optimistic car show efforts. The season is over. It is well past over. Even stalwart and true car enthusiasts have...
When George Barris died at age 89 on November 5, most of the published obituaries referred to him as the designer of the Batmobile for the 1960s television series. But among dyed-in-the-wool car guys from the 1950s and 60s, Barris was much, much more than that. He...
The scenery would rival the creative minds of even the most optimistic car commercial director. A mid-October flurry of leaves, stunning reds, brilliant golds, cascades to the ground, dusting the open roads in a blanket of hues. Around are the sounds of nature...
In October, 1972, dirt-track stock car racing came to the New York State Fairgrounds in Syracuse for a year-end championship event, and this October, the 44th annual “Super Dirt Week” will take place there. For the last time. That is, for the last time at the New...
What makes a car show good? Is it simply a wide variety of makes and models, shiny chrome glinting in the mid-summer afternoon sun, a lemonade in your hand, over-priced hot dog smells drifting on the wind? Is it the type of car – classics only, back lot reserved...
I am nine years old. My legs slide across the hot black vinyl back seat of our classic Thunderbird, as we stare over the enormous shining trunk to watch my dad, cursing with tools in hand, at the strange wood and metal shopping cart-based contraption currently splayed...
