HARWINTON, CT – Twice postponed because of rain, this evening’s Cruisin’ with the Clauses car show and concert at the town’s athletic fields enjoyed a nice turnout of area classic car lovers. The setting sun cast shadows on the parking area and made for challenging photo taking. RIDE-CT has assembled …

LITCHFIELD, CT – The 1966 Ford Fairlane Country Squire station wagon dubbed “Hotel Ford” by the family that modified it into a clever camper has a new owner. Claiming the rig this week were Veronica and Daniel Korn who live less than a mile away from longtime owner Doyle Finan. …

WINSTED – Chris Briglia says that it has been his “lifelong dream to build a replica of Ecto1 from the movie ‘Ghosterbusters'” and now he’s getting the opportunity to do so. The Winsted resident purchased a 1959 Cadillac Eureka combination car (designed to be used as an ambulance or a …

COPAKE, NY – It’s roughly 1,350 miles from Little Rock, AR to Copake, NY but that’s how far Jim and Dena Peckham traveled to take delivery this week of the dark blue 2025 Morgan Plus Four sports car that they’d been waiting at least two years to receive. RIDE-CT spotted …

HARWINTON, CT – It was steamy on the show lots for the 10th annual Cars for Sight Car Show jointly staged today by the Harwinton Lions Club and Bristol Lions Club. Quite a few Harwinton residents and/or natives showed up to support the hometown event. RIDE-CT grabbed enough photos for …

NAUGATUCK, CT – The name of the show was a mouthful: The Naugatuck History Museum at the Tuttle House Classic Car Show. By any other name, it still would have been good. As it was, the Tuttle House lawn got filled early, with many entrants commenting today on the pleasant, …

HARWINTON, CT – Peter Egan is revered among car and motorcycle enthusiasts for his many contributions to “Road & Track” and “Cycle World” magazines over the decades; mainly the “Side Glances” and “Leanings” columns that were later collected into book form. His columns mixed romance with nuance, precise details with scope, …

MERIDEN, CT – In response to an opinion column posted Saturday night griping about the fact RIDE-CT was denied the normal courtesy of gratis entrance to an event to take photographs and write a story or do a video, one of the “hosts” of the Silver City Showdown, Derrick Pesko, …

FALLS VILLAGE, CT – It’s always among the largest car shows in the state and Sunday’s Falls Village Car & Motorcycle Show enjoyed a routine huge turnout to the picturesque hamlet in the Northwest Corner. Organizers Denny and Judy Jacobs pegged the number of entrants at around 500, but the …

MERIDEN, CT – It’s never happened before in my 50 years in journalism, but it happened today… Departed home this morning planning to attend the Silver City Showdown featuring hot rods and customs in Meriden. I figured there might be some unusual or noteworthy models to share with RIDE-CT’s readers …