Gallery: “We’ve Got Your 601” Car Show – Oct. 11, 2025

SIMSBURY, CT – A large turnout today at the “We’ve Got Your 601” Car Show. The purpose was to raise funds to cover medical expenses for Simsbury PD animal control officer Deb Clark, who has stage 4 bile duct cancer.

Stage by the Simsbury Police Union, the Hometown Foundation and ACI Dynamix, the show drew old and new models, including supercars, muscle cars, vintage and imports. The most common vehicle in the expansive commuter parking lot near downtown were Simsbury Police Department cruisers, along with a couple of fire engines.

RIDE-CT gathered photos of some of the eye-catching models, but nowhere near all of them…

(Photos by Bud Wilkinson.)

About Bud Wilkinson

Bud Wilkinson is editor and publisher of RIDE-CT. He also writes the "My Ride" classic car column for Hearst Connecticut Media Group's newspapers in CT including the "Connecticut Post" (Bridgeport), "Republican-American" (Waterbury), "Stamford Advocate," "New Haven Register," "Danbury News-Times," "Norwalk Hour" and more. The weekly feature began in 2016 in the "Republican-American." 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 R80RT and a 1996 BMW R850R.

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