LOS ANGELES — It used to be that the Detroit and Los Angeles auto shows took place at the same time early each New Year. While that may not seem a problem for show goers living in either the Motor City or the home of American car culture, it was a huge headache for the … Continue Reading →
LOS ANGELES — Southern California may be the hotbed of American car culture, but it needed Detroit to supply the raw materials — four-wheeled variety — that it turned into custom cars for movie stars and into hot rods for racing on dry lakes and drag strips. Among those car crazy Southern Californians was Robert … Continue Reading →
YPSILANTI, Mich. – The first Saturday of each month — even if that happens to be a holiday like New Year’s Day — owners and lovers of special cars gather at a nondescript single-story building beside the railroad tracks here to look at and talk about cars. The early December crowd included members of a … Continue Reading →
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — There were a few more than 2,900 cars on display at the Goodguys Rod & Custom Association’s 15th annual Southwest Nationals at the WestWorld show grounds. Each of them drove into the site carrying not only a driver and perhaps a passenger or two, but a story as well. Here’s just one … Continue Reading →
LAS VEGAS — Racers don’t have time to waste, so they tend to get right to the point. When asked why Ford Motor Company and other auto automakers spend time and money on an event that isn’t even open to the car-buying public, Ford’s director of racing Jamie Allison hit the bull’s-eye. The event in … Continue Reading →
YPSILANTI, Mich. — The Ypsilanti Auto Heritage Museum is a celebration of the automotive history of this old city, the nearby Willow Run manufacturing and assembly facility and, of course, Hudson Motors Cars. The museum, which dates from 1995, occupies the land and buildings of Miller Motors, a Hudson sales and service dealership that opened … Continue Reading →
Google “Orphan car show” and the first five links that pop up on your computer screen are for the big event staged annually for the last 16 years in conjunction with the Ypsilanti Automotive Heritage Museum just west of Detroit in Michigan. Scroll a little further down the page and you’ll find other shows for … Continue Reading →
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — Set the GPS in your car for Florida and it will route you right down I-75, through Toledo and Cincinnati, Chattanooga and Atlanta on your way to the Sunshine State’s tourist attractions. But allow us to suggest an alternate route, or at least a detour well worth taking. Consider I-69 and … Continue Reading →
YPSILANTI, Mich. — A one-of-a-kind French coupe built for Henry Ford II and owned by a former Ford Motor Co. designer from West Bloomfield, Mich. won the 2012 Detroit News Joyrides award at the 16th Orphan Car Show here Sept. 23. Buck Mook bought the sleek 1954 Comete Monte Carlo with its Italian Pininfarina design … Continue Reading →
CANTON, Ohio — The annual Glenmoor Gathering at the Glenmoor Country Club here originally set out to assemble important and unusual cars for the public and special car owners to enjoy. Now in its 18th year, the September event so far has not run out of exhibit ideas, “significant automobiles” or appreciative and/or curious show … Continue Reading →