PORTSMOUTH, RI – It’s an automotive art museum filled with colorful artifacts that are displayed in seven distinct galleries. The exhibits weigh far too much and are much too large to easily hang on the walls or be parked on granite pedestals. Most likely had their origins as clay models …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …