WESTPORT, CT – Photos from the Spring Fling Rally at Compo Beach, which attracted an array of Porsche and Volkswagen models and smattering of other vehicles just footsteps from Long Island Sound. — — — — — — — — (Photos by Bud Wilkinson)

HAMDEN, CT – The sixth annual Quinnipiac Car Club Spring Show staged in the parking lot outside of Quinnipiac University’s M&T Bank Arena had cars engaged in a limbo competition. A soggy morning may have kept some away, but there were still dozens of cars and an enthusiastic crowd. — …

HARWINTON, CT – It’s a memory that cannot be erased; a memory of being 12 or 13 years old, accompanying my parents to Crestwood Ford in Watertown, CT, and riding home with mom in a new light gray 1966 Ford Mustang. It was a base model, with a 200-cubic-inch six-cylinder …

WOLCOTT, CT – When the family business involves building custom hot rods, no member should be without one. It was part generosity and part self-interest that played parts in the making of the bright red 1939 Chevrolet hot rod that Susan Brunetti of Cheshire, CT was gifted in 2018. “My …

HARTFORD – There’s a significance to the stairway leading up to the mezzanine lounge at the new Petrolhead Café in the city’s Parkville neighborhood. It displays a black and white checkerboard pattern. Here’s a clue. The stairs are just beyond the racing simulators that are inside the entrance. Figured it …

BRISTOL, CT – The 2024 Spring Egg Stravaganza Car Show might more aptly be called the “No-Show Car Show” as the event certainly laid an egg today. Maybe it was the chilly and overcast weather. Maybe it was the exorbitant entry fee. Maybe it was the lingering salt on the …

WATERTOWN, CT – March marked the 70th anniversary of the arrival of a new 1954 MG TF roadster into Charles McNair’s family. His father was 37 years old when his mother – McNair’s grandmother – gifted it to his father, who kept it until 1981 when he passed away and …

TORRINGTON, CT – It’s not often that a classic car is spotted on the sales lot of new car dealer, much less a mid-engine, two-seat 1974 Porsche 914 sports car. Unexpectedly, Torrington Hyundai has had one out front for the past couple of weeks. I spotted it Friday morning after …

HARWINTON, CT – No doubt about it, I got scammed. Ripped off. Snookered. Taken to the tune of $500. That was the sum subtracted from my checking account soon after I hit “send.” I only have myself to blame for reacting to a come-on in my Facebook feed last month. …

(Editor’s note: This story is from the RIDE-CT archives having appeared in the “Republican-American” newspaper in March 2018. Mark Prause still owns the car.) LAKEVILLE, CT – History didn’t repeat itself. It was in late October 2018 that Mark Prause’s 1965 Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray departed Lime Rock Park in …