Columns

It wasn’t what Honda said in a Thursday press release – bragging that its 31.0 miles per gallon fleet average is best in the auto industry – that was most newsworthy. Or at least most caught my eye. It was the numbers contained in an accompanying chart that showed Detroit …

LAKEVILLE, CT – The go-carting experience that Lime Rock Park dubbed “Kart the Park” in its inaugural season in 2025 will offer even more dates in 2026. There will be 21 opportunities to drive on the racetrack’s half-mile autocross track, up from 18 dates last year, with the season running …

OXFORD, CT – (Editor’s note: Reopened in Jan. 29.) It has been a bad spell for drive-in restaurants in Connecticut that host popular cruise nights. First, the Sycamore Drive-In Restaurant in Bethel shut down on Christmas Eve, if only temporarily. Now, Fritz’s Snack Bar in Oxford has suffered a fire …

BRISTOL, CT – Lake Compounce amusement park in Bristol celebrates 180 years operation in 2026 and is seeking some classic cars to help spice up some events in August. “I don’t have specific models in mind, but I think we want to target 1940s-50s models. I would particularly be interested …

BETHLEHEM, CT – Promotional flyers posted on a social media in advance of Sunday’s well-attended Trunk Or Treat Car Show at March Farm, including on the farm’s Facebook page, were clear. They stated that the event had a “$10 entry fee” for show vehicles with “spectators free.”  The popular show, …

BRISTOL, CT – It’s only happened twice in 10 years of writing about classic cars here in CT, but it was unexpected and unsettling on both occasions. The situation was the same each time – a confrontation involving a concerned homeowner while innocently shooting video of a vintage vehicle driving …

PLANTSVILLE, CT – There is such a thing as a free car show. The Connecticut Volkswagen Association provided an example on Sunday by marking its founding in 1985 with a car meet at the Southington Drive-In that didn’t require that money change hands. More than 100 models from Germany in …

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 – 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, …