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My Top Five Shows of the Season
For all intents and purposes, the car show season is dwindling down on the east coast. Of course, it’s still warm enough to be summer here, but since most car shows are planned months in advance, there are few still coming up. Still, it has been a fantastic season, filled with cool classic cars, modern cars and custom cars, and it’s been my pleasure to report on the events.
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Bridgehampton is a Success Story
You’ve got to give these guys credit. Despite a first year event drenched by a late October deluge, the combined efforts of Dan’s Papers and the Bridgehampton Museum came up to bat again, with this year’s Bridgehampton Road Rally and Tour D’Hamptons.
Of course, it was a fantastic event.
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Serving Time in the Car Business
I spent the last four years in the car business as a sales consultant in two different dealerships; an economy brand, and a luxury brand. I wasn’t particularly good at it, but it was a valuable experience and I learned a lot.
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Tucker: The Man and His Dream
I find it so interesting that this film is nowhere to be found. If Tucker were operating in today’s day and age, like Elon Musk or Christian Von Koenigsegg, the story would have been different.
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Won’t Come Back From Dead Man’s Curve (Because You’ll Want to Stay All Year)
But, in the world of racing and classic cars, boldness and aggression often pay off, and this year’s Dead Man’s Curve Car Show, hosted at the Mahwah Sheraton this past weekend, certainly did. Without a doubt, the event this year surpassed all the iterations that had come before and played a true and dangerous competitor to Lead East.
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Test Track Tease at Disney
Too much time was spent on the aerodynamic lines and tire choices and engine configuration, and at the end of our 120 seconds, we had an orange Dune Buggy meets Subaru meets 1920s Bugatti looking monstrosity in bright orange.
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Should the Manuals be Saved?
It’s a campaign begun years ago, as automatic transmissions began to become standard equipment on new cars, replacing, um, standard transmissions. “Save the Manuals” is the rallying cry.
But I don’t buy into it.
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In Praise of the First Year Car Show
This might sound a little sacrilegious, but bear with me. Sometimes, long-running car shows are boring.
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The Misadventures of Classic Car Ownership
Robbie checks his phone and shows me the weather patterns. We are twenty minutes from home and there are threats of torrential downpours. I laugh and say I hope we’re lucky.
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The Great of the Furious
After eight films and nearly two decades, I have finally figured out how to watch the movies in the Fast and Furious franchise.
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Motorama
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Many products from the fabled Studebaker Corporation that span the company’s rich automotive history have appeared in the Pebble Beach Concours. However, one illustrious member of the company’s product line has been conspicuously absent from the show field. That situation will change in 2026 with the acceptance of a 1964 Avanti R3 as the first of the entire line to compete for Best Of Show.
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In 1925, Hudson’s subsidiary Essex Motor Company decided to capitalize on aviation’s appeal to promote a new six-cylinder model in its popular Essex line by sending an example on a three-month nationwide tour via airplane. The proposed aircraft, the new Remington-Burnelli RB-2, was the first dedicated cargo airplane. It designer, Vincent Burnelli, hoped to leverage the tour’s publicity to help to sell the unconventional aircraft to conservative aviation customers.
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Plymouth's Savoy was a popular police vehicle from the mid-1950s through the mid-1960s. A beautiful example of a 1964 model owned by the San Jose California Police Department is at the scene of a freak aircraft accident that disrupted the tranquility of a local suburban neighborhood.
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Shell Oil aired a commercial in 1997 of a speeding Ferrari F310 seemingly being refueled from an aircraft as a component of its then-current campaign entitled “The Future Is In The Making.” The campaign was developed to emphasize Shell’s obsession with developing innovative solutions to satisfy customer’s current and future fuel needs.
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How did an airplane end up on a car dealer’s lot? Pilots are generally fervent about only selling an aircraft to someone within the flying community. In the case of one Piper Cub being traded toward a new car, it is safe to say that passion was overruled by a greater need.
News
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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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