The Boys Are Back (In Cars)

Oh, but I missed my scruffy, caustic middle-aged British men. It’s been some time since Clarkson’s nail in the coffin stunt that got him fired from BBC’s Top Gear (cough, the real one) and it’s easy to forget why Clarkson, Hammond and May are the best in the business....

The Grand Tour Debuts

The Amazon Prime series The Grand Tour, starring the former Top Gear triumvirate of Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond, made its long-anticipated debut on November 18. It had its moments. The show incorporated a mix of the familiar and the new.  A tent,...

Hagerty’s Hershey Swap to Street Challenge Holds Court

Since 1955, the Antique Automobile Club of America’s Hershey Region has been host to the AACA’s Eastern Division Fall Meet, which grew rapidly and organically into the world’s largest automotive swap meet.  Your correspondent first attended in 1970 (yes, I am the...

Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance: What to Know Before You Go

As most car enthusiasts know, the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance is the mecca of the car world. It’s an expensive show to attend, especially for those of us visiting from the east coast, and it boasts of some of the world’s most beautiful, rare, and historic...

New York in a Nutshell

Anyone who has attended an international auto show knows first hand what it’s like to suddenly find yourself in a chorus number for Cirque du Soleil. Everywhere you look there’s flashes of chrome, both fake and real, the sound of engines and – on...

Atlantic City Car Show in Review (Sigh, Again.)

Social media has been around just long enough that it has become chic to remind us of the cringe-worthy posts, pictures, and statements we made before we realized that the internet was ever lasting. Last week, as I was perusing my daily onslaught of political...