RIDE-CT Adds “Cars & Coffee” List To Begin 2026

HARWINTON, CT – RIDE-CT begins 2026 with an upgrade to its classic cars website.

After witnessing RIDE-CT’s YouTube channel surpass the one million view mark in 2025, and after observing its Car Show Calendar become the most popular page on the website with more than 135,000 views last year, the website has now launched another “event page” to benefit and provide even more info to classic car owners and enthusiasts.

Joining the Car Show Calendar and Car Cruises pages today is a new page devoted to “Cars & Coffee” type events. These are gatherings routinely held on weekend mornings.

The popularity of the other event pages and the results of a viewer poll done on RIDE-CT’s YouTube channel about a month ago that showed 69 percent of voters favored such an addition. That made the expansion of content with the start of the new year a no-brainer.

The new page helps place fencing between the various types of classic car events. Having three distinct pages will help readers more easily find the gatherings that they seek. Content will be used thusly on the pages:

  • Car Show Calendar features one-time-only car shows; usually staged by service and non-profit organizations and that benefit charities.
  • Car Cruises feature regularly staged gathering that happen on a weekly or monthly basis and usually in the evening. They are listed by both day of the week and town.
  • Cars & Coffee for those weekly morning get-togethers, usually on weekends.

Not to brag too much, but RIDE-CT has become the most comprehensive resource in the state for finding the dates and times of car events. If you regularly visits these pages, please help pass the word that they exist. To get an event listed, please email complete info to budw@ride-ct.com.

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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