Motorama
Do you love the history of the automobile? So we do! Here at Car Show Safari, we know that classic car history is as important today as it was the day it happened, and that events from decades ago continue to impact the automotive industry and motorsports events that we all love.
That’s why we developed the Motorama page of Safari News, our automotive news and event update outlet! The Motorama page of Safari News features many great blasts from the past, highlighting the development of some iconic automobiles that changed the modern face of motoring, featuring important players from the past, and exploring how the races, auto company expansions, and innovative developments that have taken past over the last century and a half impact the car culture we know today.
Dive into the weird and truly wonderful world of the early tinkerers, racers, and designers, who didn’t just make automotive history when they set land speed records and developed front windshield wipers, but impacted the whole history of the world.
Stevi Cedarstrom and Women in Racing
In the early 1970s a woman racer was still very much an anomaly, but Stevi Cedarstrom rose above the novelty factor by doing something very basic: Winning.
read moreThis Week in Motorhead History: 109 Years in New York
In 2014, General Motors agreed to move Cadillac's world headquarters from Detroit to New York City. The next year, Cadillac opened “Cadillac House” in Manhattan’s SoHo district. Cadillac House is not a dealer, and you can’t buy a car there. And it’s not even a...
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(This Week in Motorhead History) Drive Home Again in Indiana
While the Indy 500 remains the world’s most famous automobile race, less well-known is the fact that in the early part of the 20th century, Indiana was the country’s second-largest automobile-producing state, second only to Michigan.
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Long Live Ford Tin
The Ford Motor Company produced its one millionth car on December 10, 1915, thanks to the ingenuity, forward thinking and innovation of Henry Ford and the Ford Model T.
read moreThe Daytona Turkey Run has Cars by the Thousands
The Daytona Turkey Run in Florida is one of the largest combined car show and swap meets in the country, and it offers events and activities across the entirety of the Thanksgiving weekend, Wednesday through Sunday.
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Old Cars in an Old Place
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 performances, came to life recently with the annual Hinchliffe Stadium Racing Expo.
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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.
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Detroit Autorama
For a long, long time, American gearheads have held the tradition of hot rodding and customization close to their hearts – If there is one show you absolutely have to check out to see the best of the best in this part of the automotive world, it’s the annual Detroit Autorama.
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An Ode to Harley Earl and the Concept Car
For more than a few generations of car enthusiasts, it has gone without saying that the new year will bring about beauties and beasts from all corners of the car industry – We can thank Harley Earl for that.
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The Little Microcars That Could (Almost)
It’s hard not to respect, and in some cases, love, the microcars with which we might be less familiar, the strangely shaped and quirky, the underpowered and slow. In some ways, they were ahead of their time, better on gas, lighter, and more efficient, and because of that, now seems as good a time as any to pay them the homage they deserve.
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Editorial
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Review: The Little Car Show, Monterey Car Week 2025
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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.
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Review: Astons on the Avenue, Monterey Car Week 2025
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Since ancient times, change of command ceremonies have marked the formal transfer of authority from one leader to another. In the military, time-honored symbolism is integral to the ceremonial aspects of a change of command, including an inspection and review of personnel, gun salutes, and accompaniment by a military band.
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Cars and airplanes have been photographed together in advertisements almost since the birth of their respective technologies.
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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