WINSTED, CT – Downtown businesses provided the backdrop on Saturday for the 24th Fall Foliage Festival and Car/Motorcycle Show along the main drag in Winsted. The leaves may just beginning to change, but bright colors could be seen in some of the cars on display. Here’s a gallery of the …

EAST CANAAN, CT – Lone Oak Campsites staged its 10th annual car show today under a sunny sky and drew a normal number of entries, despite competition from another show in Winsted. Entries perhaps covered a wide range of years than found at other shows. Here’s a gallery of some …

NEW HARTFORD, CT – The ski slopes at Ski Sundown provided the backdrop on Sunday for the annual Valley Collector Car Club show, and more than 120 enthusiasts showed up to display their rides. Among the noteworthy models were a 1909 Cadillac, a 1928 REO and a 1961 Chevrolet Corvair …

PLANTSVILLE, CT – Oldsmobile got shut down by General Motors some 20 years ago, but brand enthusiasts persist to this day. On Sunday, they gathered at the Southington Drive-In for the New England Oldsmobile Clubs’s an annual show. It featured many 442 muscle car models as well as a luxury …

CHESHIRE, CT – The 2024 car show season will have a big-ticket finale in October with the staging of the New England Concours d’Elegance at the Farmington Polo Club. It’s described as “a sophisticated car show benefitting those in need.” It will begin at 11 a.m. on Oct. 27 at …

LAKEVILLE, CT – So few of them were built that each one is routinely referred to by its chassis number. Howard Kroplick of East Hills, N.Y. on Long Island owns “#1044.”  Kroplick paid nearly $1.35 million at a Sotheby’s auction in Arizona in 2017 for the privilege of owning a …

THOMASTON, CT – The line of classic cars on Route 254 waiting to claim parking spots in the annual Thomaston Car Show stretched seeming forever, and RIDE-CT was on hand when they were finally allowed to drive into the downtown show area shortly before 1 p.m. Sunday. Here are some …

— MILLERTON, NY – It was an opportunity that Rob Cooper couldn’t resist. After restoring an old Mobil service station in Millerton. NY to how it looked back in the 1950s, complete with period gas pumps and signage, he’s now doing the same with another gas station nine miles to …

CANTON, CT – The first-ever Miner’s Car Show held Saturday morning in Canton stood not only for its lumber yard setting but also because it had everyone seeing red. Everywhere one looked, there seemed to be a red car. RIDE-CT had an enjoyable time gathering photos of all of them, …

COLEBROOK, CT – With its oxidized black paint and rusty running boards, Jon Gray’s “rare but not priceless” 1937 Studebaker President always gets attention at car shows because it hasn’t been restored cosmetically.  “It’s the best kind of show car to have because it only requires mechanical maintenance and a …