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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 …

EAST HADDAM, CT – The BMW X2 is described by the company as “a striking combination of SUV and coupe design.” To me, it’s  a modern reincarnation of a Saab 9000 five-door hatchback. It was some 25 years ago that BMW specifically concentrated on four-door sedans, while Saab focused on …

OXFORD, CT – Wayne Johnson was 21 years old when he bought a new, fully-equipped 1968 Dodge Coronet 500 convertible from a dealership in Ansonia, CT. “I had graduated school. I was gainfully employed. Needed a car and this is what I ended up with,” he recalled as he stood …

Automakers ended 2024 with strong sales that were aided by increased interest in electric models. General Motors was the top manufacturer. It sold more than 2.7 million new vehicles last year, a 4 percent sales increase over 2023. Toyota came in second place with sales of 2,332,623 units, an increase …

AUSTIN, TX – Faced with an aging model lineup and a lack of new models, growing electric niche competition, and an increasingly conservative CEO in Elon Musk, EV maker Tesla experienced a year-over-year sales decline in 2024 for the first time in more than a dozen years. Total deliveries fell …

HARWINTON, CT – The year just ended was a record one for RIDE-CT’s growing YouTube channel with 480,631 views, an increase of more than 130,000 views over 2023 and largely due to one video that was filmed in a cemetery. The channel launched on Dec. 25, 2022 and has now …

EAST HADDAM, CT – The arrival of a 2024 Ford F-150 Tremor was quite a coincidence. Only two weeks before a similarly outfitted Chevrolet 1500 Silverado ZR2 landed in the driveway for evaluation. This naturally made for a compelling comparison.  Both these Ford and Chevy models are off-road ready right …

WATERBURY, CT – It cost only $500 and, as Mike Semanoff of Waterbury succinctly declared, “It was worth a shot.”  Semanoff was talking last month about the 1972 International Harvester Scout II that he’s owned for approximately eight years and driven cross-country three times, visiting 42 states. He regards his …