GOSHEN, CT – Photos and a video from the Litchfield Hills Historical Automobile Club Car Show staged Aug. 20, 2023 at the Goshen Fairgrounds. Perfect weather brought a crowd with both familiar vehicles and loads of new ones. And now some photos… — — — — —

NEW MILFORD, CT – It’s a muscle car with a criminal past that did hard time in an impound lot. It was then surreptitiously sprung and sold to an unsuspecting buyer who didn’t know that it had been stolen – a 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T.  For the past 22 years …

Photos from the New England Auto Museum Car Show staged Saturday evening (Aug. 12, 2023) in downtown Bristol, CT. Overhead video footage is courtesy of Lee Cormier of Wings of a Dove drone services. Now for some photos… — — — — —

Each of the classic vehicles owned by Mike Peters of Burlington, CT has a nickname. His 1970 Chevrolet Monte Carlo goes by “Rodney,” while his 1968 Mercury Cougar is known as “Freddy.”  Even his 1977 Datsun 720 pickup has a playfully scatological moniker, “Chitbox.” The reasons are “because it’s a …

HARWINTON, CT – The buyer of a blue 2008 Ford Ranger pickup that I parked in July because of frame rust that had made it unsafe to drive in the opinion of a local mechanic is now trying to flip it after purchasing it for $1,600 and giving it a …

WATERBURY, CT – He first poked his nose out in an issue of “Car Craft” magazine in 1963 and he’s been part of car culture ever since. On Sunday, the hot rod character of Rat Fink, a cartoon creation of Ed “Big Daddy” Roth who died in 2001, was seen …

SOUTHBURY, CT – Wesley Knecht doesn’t need a large garage to park his heavy-duty trucks. He keeps two inside his house. At the time we met, a third was in the process of being assembled and sat atop a bench in a workshop behind his home in Southbury. Others that …

Photos from the Cars for Sight Car Show staged by the Harwinton and Bristol Lions Clubs at the recreational fields and Town Hall in Harwinton, CT on July 23, 2023. — — — —

HARWINTON, CT – An astute salesperson or someone with greater knowledge of the automotive marketplace probably would have foreseen what happened, but I’m not that person. It’s unimaginable to me that 12 hours after posting a Facebook Marketplace ad for my 2008 Ford Ranger pickup that Messages would still be …

Photos from the Paradice Classic Cruisers Car Club’s annual “Thanksgiving in July” Car Show staged July 15, 2023 in New Milford, CT. More than $5,000 was raised for a local food bank with a show drawing a noteworthy variety of models. Before the photos, let’s go to the video… Now …