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Car Show Classic Archive
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Car Show Outtake: 1982 Peugeot 604 STI Automatique Limousine Heuliez – Voiture Extraordinaire
Posted on September 3, 2024 | 39 Comments(first posted 9/3/2018) Yesterday I visited the 2018 edition of La Fête des Limousines, a show focusing on the top models of French automakers. There was this Peugeot […] -
Car Show Classic: 1990-96 Maserati Shamal – The Wildest Biturbo
Posted on September 3, 2024 | 27 Comments(first posted 9/4/2018) Maserati, under the stewardship of Alejandro de Tomaso, introduced the Biturbo line in 1981 with the intention of increasing the brand’s production volume tenfold. Trading […] -
Car Show Classic: 2021 Alvis TE 21 Continuation Graber Super Coupé – Same Again, Please
Posted on August 30, 2024 | 11 CommentsFor the grand finale of Bespoke British Week, we’re going to look at something even more unusual: the “continuation” cars. Very rare and very desirable models (the two don’t necessarily […] -
Car Show Classic: 1979 Chevrolet Corvette – The Actual Discovette Lives
Posted on August 29, 2024 | 52 Comments(first posted 8/30/2018) The annual Back To The Bricks car festival in Flint, Michigan took place a couple of weeks ago, and continues to produce a treasure trove […] -
Car Show Classic: 1958 Mercury Park Lane Convertible – Inconspicuous It’s Not
Posted on August 24, 2024 | 61 Comments(first posted 1/7/2013) Poor Mercury. The beleaguered Ford division just never seemed to hit its stride. Introduced in 1939 as a slightly more upmarket variant of the well-loved Ford V8, […] -
Car Show Classics — Driving on Isabel’s Lawn, Swedish Car Day 2024
Posted on August 23, 2024 | 16 CommentsHere in New England, we savor the times of the year when weather accommodates the parking of cars on grass en-masse and having a good old fashioned lawn event car […] -
Car Show Classic: 1983 Blakely Bernardi – Hooray for Beefaroni
Posted on August 20, 2024 | 18 CommentsNowadays, authenticity is a deeply-celebrated concept. People want to have authentic experiences while on vacation; to see authentic culture and not tourist-trap fodder. We want authentic stories told by people […] -
Car Show Classic: 1997 Venturi Atlantique 300 – On the Other Side of the Atlantique
Posted on August 12, 2024 | 11 Comments“What are you doing here?!?” It’s a cliched phrase – uttered in so many TV shows when an unlikely character shows up at an improbable time. But sometimes, there are […] -
Car Show Classic: 1961 Škoda Felicia – Convertible Cicada
Posted on August 12, 2024 | 17 CommentsStill going with the open-topped theme, as the month of August stubbornly refuses to offer anything but blistering temperatures and a cornucopia of insects. Japan hosts an impressive collection of […] -
Car Show Classic: 1964 Studebaker Cruiser – Brooks Stevens’s Last Pass For South Bend
Posted on August 5, 2024 | 97 Comments(first posted 9/28/2012) I love Studebaker. Pretty much any South Bend-built model gets my immediate attention, but I have to acknowledge that, in the end, Studebaker did itself in. We […] -
Car Show Classics: 1970 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme & Others – Supreme Love On The 4th
Posted on July 10, 2024 | 11 CommentsIt’s summer and time for some car show action in San Salvador. This time, a small car show with a mostly American iron theme for the 4th of July. All […] -
Car Show Outtakes: 1979-1991 Mercedes-Benz W126 And C126 S-Class – Timeless Autobahn Gliders
Posted on July 8, 2024 | 33 CommentsIts predecessor, the W116-series S-Class, is a downright classic. But by now it also looks very classic, as in old. And its W140-successor is a pompous barge, although I must […] -
Car Show Classic: 1970 Chevrolet Camaro – With Turbo Thrift Six-Cylinder Power!
Posted on July 7, 2024 | 147 Comments(first posted 2/8/2013) As you might have guessed from my previous posts on the 1957 Packard and 1964 Studebaker Cruiser, the annual car show in Geneseo is one of the […] -
Car Show Classic: 1960 Edsel Villager Two-Door Wagon – Do Unicorns Exist?
Posted on June 26, 2024 | 65 CommentsIn my neck of the woods, this past Sunday was one of those amazing, picture-perfect weather days with sunshine, warm (but not hot) temperatures and low humidity. Optimal for being […] -
Car Show Classic: 1965 Plymouth Valiant Signet Convertible – You Are Who You Are, Until You Aren’t
Posted on June 26, 2024 | 36 CommentsWe are all subject to self-imposed rules, and one of mine is the “90% rule.” Through some swampy combination of genetics and environment, our temperaments are fixed at an early […]