Throwing Dirt on “Super Dirt Week?”

In October, 1972, dirt-track stock car racing came to the New York State Fairgrounds in Syracuse for a year-end championship event, and this October, the 44th annual “Super Dirt Week” will take place there.  For the last time. That is, for the last time at the New...

The Warren Car Show (And What Makes One Good)

What makes a car show good? Is it simply a wide variety of makes and models, shiny chrome glinting in the mid-summer afternoon sun, a lemonade in your hand, over-priced hot dog smells drifting on the wind? Is it the type of car – classics only, back lot reserved...

Reliving the 50’s (From a Gal Who’s Never Been)

I am nine years old. My legs slide across the hot black vinyl back seat of our classic Thunderbird, as we stare over the enormous shining trunk to watch my dad, cursing with tools in hand, at the strange wood and metal shopping cart-based contraption currently splayed...