Gallery: Barnum Festival Car Show – June 1, 2025

MONROE, CT – With shows at other locations dealing with soggy footing today because of Saturday’s rain, the annual Barnum Festival Car Show had an advantage by being staged on pavement. Consequently, it experienced a strong turnout.

RIDE-CT spent hours at the show, admiring the entries and chatting with owners, and has produced a video and assembled a photo gallery. The video leads off…

And now the gallery…

(Photos by Bud Wilkinson.)

About Bud Wilkinson

RIDE-CT editor and publisher Bud Wilkinson writes the "My Ride" classic car feature for Hearst Connecticut Media Group's newspapers in CT, including the "Connecticut Post" in Bridgeport, the "Republican-American" in Waterbury and the "New Haven Register." The weekly feature began in 2016 in the "Republican-American." He also wrote the "RIDE-CT" motorcycle column in that newspaper from 2005 until 2025. A graduate of Vermont Academy prep school, he holds a B.A. degree journalism from Ohio Wesleyan University. He is the recipient of a Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Award in 1992 and a 1991-92 regional Emmy Award for commentary. He currently drives a 2010 Mazda MX-5 Miata and rides a 1987 BMW R 80 RT .

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