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There’s lots to explore at Car Show Safari News, including our editorial section of reviews, commentary, personal experience stories, and more! At the CarShowSafari.com Editorial News Page, we cover everything from top tips on how to host a successful car show to thought-provoking editorial news commentary on modern ridesharing apps. Here, you’ll find our recurring blogs and columns, including So You Want to Have a Car Show, dedicated to making every automotive event the very best it can be and the Car Mudgeon series, which gets frank and funny about topics that affect every auto enthusiast.
The Editorial Page helps to set Safari News apart from other listing sites and automotive news outlets. Not only do we share the news as it takes place, but we work to give it context and meaning, and to provide the resources and information enthusiasts and the hobby deserve! Our team of expert writers are first and foremost car lovers, and we look forward to sharing their informed, unique, and sometimes unexpected thoughts and opinion with our readers!
The Car Show Bucket List
This is a list of the Car Shows you will want to experience before you die.
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Moment of Decision: John’s 1963 Corvette Resto-Mod
Moment of Decision: John’s 1963 Corvette Resto-Mod: Choosing whether to Restore or Resto-Mod an older Corvette isn’t always easy.
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I Bought a Car
I have a certain appreciation for the Edsel. I was not quite six years old when the car was introduced, and as part of the introduction the dealers were offering an incentive: Come test-drive the new Edsel and receive a scale model of the car. My father took the test drive, and I got the scale model.
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One Weekend, Two Car Shows: A World Apart.
Rat Rods and Concours winners
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Easy Win for Speed Read F1
This is the book I’ve been waiting for. For an automotive enthusiast early to the classic car hobby, but late to the motorsport scene, Speed Read F1 by Stuart Codling answers the easy questions I should have learned a long time ago.
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Car Show Bucket List: The Grand National Roadster Show
To me, the Grand National Roadster Show is car show nirvana. What makes this show so great?
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Chrome and Color and a Must-Read From Garry Foster
Garry Foster is paying homage to car enthusiasts and the rides that made them in Chrome and Colour. It is the perfect combination of personal and technical, modern and historic, and the individual nature of the stories taps into the best parts of the classic car hobby, creativity, community, and genuine joy.
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Anarchy of the Early Auto
I’ve come to a deep and abiding love and respect for early autos, not dissimilar from the love and respect you might feel for a child attempting to learn to walk. It is chaotic and insane and goes against every natural instinct, but miracle upon miracle, they might actually succeed.
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Car-acter Development
As a fiction writer, working to develop fully rounded characters with quirks and personality traits that may never actually make it to the page, I find the question of what their favorite car might be, just as important as their favorite movie, book or sport. Perhaps more.
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Ford Mustang, Better With Age
On April 17, 1964, Ford unveiled a car that would fundamentally shift the auto industry into the new age, and with it, change buying practices, target new demographics and ultimately shake the foundation upon which capitalism was built.
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Motorama
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This third installment begins an exploration of Ford Motor Company’s involvement in also building airplanes during WWII by focusing on the story of its facility in Willow Run, MI.
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Henry Ford was able to indulge a long-standing interest in mass-producing airplanes when in 1941 the Ford Motor Company garnered a contract to produce complete B-24 bombers at a specially-built plant in Willow Run, MI.
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It may not be well-known but there is more history of automobile manufacturers who have also produced aircraft, of which Honda is only the most recent example.
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This St. Patrick’s Day, celebrate both Irish pride and the arrival of Spring by taking a drive in your 1959 Shamrock.
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On March 17, 1834, Gottlieb Daimler was born in Germany. Had he been born 100 years later, he would have seen an automotive industry the likes of which early automakers could hardly dare dream, and yet, had he been born 100 years later, that very auto industry might never have come to pass.
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Today we honor those who greatly influenced the automotive industry that passed in 2021.
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Hertz, the 102-year-old and iconic car rental company, filed for bankruptcy protection on May 22, the repercussions of which have affected, and continue to affect, the auto industry and the markets for new and used cars.
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Construction of the temporary indoor speedway had just been completed. The next morning, the same crew that built it began dismantling it.
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CarShowSafari.com’s Motorsports Editor Bob Marlow has been nominated for this year’s Junie Dunlavey Memorial Spirit of the Sport Award by the Eastern Motorsports Press Association (EMPA).
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In December 2018, the FBI raided the California offices of DC Solar and the home of company owners Jeff and Paulette Carpoff, and aside from the usual seizure of computers, files, and corporate books, the agents found $1.7 million in cash! The FBI suspected the Carpoffs of running DC Solar in the fashion of a Ponzi scheme.
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