Check out videos of last year’s car shows on RIDE-CT’s YouTube channel. This story is targeted at car show organizers in Connecticut who may still be mulling over what date to pick for a show. Everyone else is encouraged to read it as well, but it’s the car show organizers …
Read More »Bill Would Eliminate Front License Plate In CT
HARTFORD, CT – To some car owners, they’re unsightly. Others claim they mess with the air flow to the radiator of their gas-powered models. To all owners, they’re a nuisance to attach. Go to a car show, though, and you’re apt to see almost many cars lacking a front license …
Read More »1936 Ford Phaeton Recalls Forgotten Car Style
WATERTOWN, CT – John Maxwell’s hillside home in Watertown has the makings of a modest transportation museum. Inside the spacious living room of his house rests a one-horse open sleigh, which he believes dates to 1883, while parked outside the front door is an Amish carriage that serves as a …
Read More »Gallery: Northeast Gas Bash Advertising Show (with Video) – February 1, 2025
WALLINGFORD, CT – With more than three-dozen vendors displaying automobilia and pop culture artifacts, Saturday’s Northeast Gas Bash Advertising Show attracted an early-bird crowd of shoppers. RIDE-CT arrived well after the doors opened, but still found vendors and buyers haggling over items that would look good in any classic car …
Read More »Front-wheel Drive 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado Was Stylish, Innovative
SOUTH KENT, CT – Factors such as price, reliability, safety and even utility are behind most new car purchases these days, but marque and styling formerly held more sway. Cars in the 1950s and 1960s didn’t look alike as they so commonly do now. The annual arrival of new models …
Read More »Reasonable, Reliable 1970 Pontiac LeMans Sport
PLYMOUTH, CT – Unlike so many classic car owners who pamper their vehicles to excess and restrict their use out of rightful concern over inclement weather and traffic hazards, Keith Barilla of Plymouth has no limitations on how much he drives the 1970 Pontiac LeMans Sport convertible that he bought …
Read More »Retracing The Cross-Country Route Taken By A T’bird in 1959…
HARWINTON, CT – It began with a classified ad in “The Hartford Courant” newspaper that was published on Dec. 7, 1959. Gengras Motors in Hartford was seeking someone to drive a new 1959 Ford Thunderbird to a dealership in Los Angeles and stated, “Car ready to leave immediately.” At his …
Read More »Dodge A100 Pickup Has Profile Straight Out Of The 1960s
COLEBROOK, CT – It was common when perusing car magazines back in the mid-1960s to see outrageous action photos of a wheelie-popping 1964 Dodge A100 pickup known as the “Little Red Wagon.” Crowds at drag strip exhibitions loved the wheelstander that was driven by Bill “Maverick” Golden and powered by …
Read More »Low-Mileage 1955 Chevrolet 3100 Panel Delivery Truck
PLYMOUTH, CT – It’s a low-mileage truck that has provided out of the ordinary service for much of its 70 years on the road. For the past 15 years, the glistening black 1955 Chevrolet 3100 panel delivery model has been a rolling billboard and transport for The Bristol Auto Club …
Read More »Rare 1968 Dodge Coronet 500 Even Has An Eight-Track Player
OXFORD, CT – Wayne Johnson was 21 years old when he bought a new, fully-equipped 1968 Dodge Coronet 500 convertible from a dealership in Ansonia, CT. “I had graduated school. I was gainfully employed. Needed a car and this is what I ended up with,” he recalled as he stood …
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