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UNIONVILLE, CT – Good deeds sometimes get rewarded. So does patience. Ken Griffin of Unionville wasn’t expecting any gratuity some years ago when he noticed a shaggy lawn behind the house of his elderly next-door neighbor and offered to help out. “I asked him what was wrong and he said …

THOMASTON, CT – Long before so many classic car enthusiasts adopted their preferred hobby, they built model cars and played with electric train sets as kids. The renown Lionel toy train brand has long produced locomotives and other rolling stock bearing familiar railroad names. It’s now adding a boxcar bearing …

(From the RIDE-CT archives…) LITCHFIELD, CT – Debbie Deziel and Guy Livolsi of Litchfield went from saying “I do” while getting married at the Hopkins Inn in Warren, CT back in September 2021 to adopting an enthusiastic “Let’s do it” attitude the next day by loading up their 1929 Ford …

EAST HADDAM, CT – Truth be told, I have a soft spot for station wagons like the Subaru Outback. Being car derived instead of sport utility inspired, it’s a practical and capable alternative for the discriminating few that continue to defy the norm. Thankfully. Although the Outback is derived from …

 LITCHFIELD, CT – Jeff Crampton of Litchfield wasn’t like so many others who get the urge to acquire an old vehicle and then quickly get in over their heads. He neither gave up nor forked over large sums of money for someone else to do the restoration job. Crampton had …

CHESHIRE, CT – Like so many other classic car owners, Bill Borriello of Meriden, CT gained his love of a specific make and style as a child, and that explains why he has owned his vibrant white 1959 Chevrolet Impala sport coupe since 1981.  In fact, it’s the second ’59 …

ATLANTA – Sales of electric vehicles set a record in the United States in 2023 with nearly 1.2 million models being sold, according to data released today by Kelley Blue Book. EV sales represented a 7.6 percent share of the total U.S. vehicle market, up from a 5.9 percent share …

EAST HADDAM, CT – Just in time for the holidays, a Hyundai Kona came to town for an extended stay. No, it wasn’t a gift, but due to seasonal logistics challenges, this review car stuck around for a bit longer than usual to serve as Santa’s sleigh. That proved to …

WATERBURY, CT – It has the heft and profile of a hippopotamus and a gait to match when in motion, despite having a V12 engine. “It’s not a hot rod. It goes, but it’s smooth, nice and easy. Stopping it is harder than going,” said Jarrett Smith of Waterbury last …

DALLAS – GasBuddy’s annual Fuel Price Outlook predicts the cost of gasoline and diesel fuel will be lower in 2024. It projects the per-gallon cost of gas will fall to $3.38 from $3.51 in 2023, which would end two years of above average prices. Relief at the pump will be …