It happened. I was going about, living my life, minding my own business, when – completely out of the blue – I wanted a Porsche. Me? A Porsche. The skies are falling. But, you say, Porsches are amazing. They have a long and remarkable history of performance, design,...
As noted in my colleague Ruby’s recent story about Janet Guthrie, Guthrie herself acknowledges that women have a long and significant history in auto racing, dating back well over 100 years. Yet racing was, and to a great extent remains, a man’s world. It was only...
As the calendar flips to the new year, media outlets present tributes to the celebrities and pubic figures lost during the prior twelve months. Here at CarShowSafari.com, we are doing the same, but with a more narrow focus: People from the world of automobile...
Hinchliffe Stadium in the aging city of Paterson, New Jersey, has the look and feel of an ancient ruin. But the decrepit stadium, designated a National Historic Landmark in 2013 and in its heyday home to everything from Negro League baseball to Abbott and Costello...
On Thanksgiving night in 1934, with no football on television, Gilmore Stadium in Los Angeles played host to the then-emerging sport of midget auto racing, and the Turkey Night Grand Prix was born. This Thanksgiving night, while most of America is under the influence...
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...
