Classic Cars

WATERTOWN, CT – Emil Mancini of Watertown, CT was 15 years old when he accompanied a friend who was a few years older on a visit to an import car dealer in Fairfield County. It was there that Mancini spotted a Porsche 356 sports car, which sparked an attraction to …

MORRIS, CT – Robin Vogel’s connection to her dark red 1966 Ford Mustang convertible goes back to childhood.  “When I was a little kid, my father bought it as a parts car. It didn’t have any floors. I mean it was basically ready for the junk yard,” the Morris, CT …

MORRIS, CT – David Coté describes his MG – a two-seat 1967 MGB sports car – as a “bottle rocket,” at least when compared to the 1966 MGB that preceded it. With its British racing green exterior and tan interior, it looks showroom new. It also has a beckoning exhaust …

EAST GRANBY, CT – Ask Tom O’Brien of Windsor Locks, CT how many miles are on his sparkling burnt orange and silver 1966 Chevrolet Caprice Custom coupe and he’ll give an answer that’s misleading, spot-on and totally surprising.  “Just under 200,” O’Brien said Tuesday night as he stood beside the …

WATERBURY, CT – Joe Wilcox of Waterbury was a 15-year-old high schooler when his father found him a summer job at a local Hudson car dealer. “That’s where I became a Hudson nut,” the 83-year-old Wilcox recalled late last year summer as he sat on a stool in his driveway.  Behind …

SOUTHBURY, CT – There were probably more Chevrolet Corvettes than any other model at the Pomperaug High School Cars & Coffee show on Saturday, and two of them stood out. There was a sparkling blue 1966 Corvette Stingray owned by John Lanteri of Middlebury, CT. He bought it three years …

BETHLEHEM, CT – It’s not a stretch to suggest that Karen Henning was the envy of her classmates at Woodbury’s Nonnewaug High School when she tooled around in what was the hottest muscle car of the era. Indeed, Pontiac’s two-door, high-performance GTO model, which debuted in 1964, is regarded as …

LITCHFIELD, CT – Its exterior is pink and gray. Or, more precisely, Chinese rose and charcoal. It has fewer than 57,000 miles on the odometer despite being 67 years old. What’s equally amazing about the rare two-door 1956 Dodge Suburban station wagon owned by Joe D’Amico is that it’s so …

HAMDEN, CT – It appears to be not that much larger than a steamer trunk. It only came in bright red with a wide white racing stripe. Not many were built and few remain even though it was a relatively recent product of the 1990s. “From my understanding, there’s probably …

Hand-built and costing more than an average house late 1950s, Cadillac’s Eldorado Brougham was a flashy yet elegant luxury model with all the trimmings. “The MSRP was $13,074 and it cost G.M. about $23,000 to make one of these. So every time they actually made one of these, they lost …