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 →
CANTON, Ohio — Bob Lichty has proven that you can, indeed, go home again. And not only has Lichty come home, but he’s done much to make it a prominent stop for classic car collectors, including those who attended his Grande Salon classic car auction held here on the eve of the annual Glenmoor Gathering … Continue Reading →
DEARBORN — Today, people traveling in motor homes can park for the night at most Walmart stores. But what about those who hit the roads a century or so ago, back before big box stores, in fact, before there were formal campgrounds? “It’s perfectly fitting that we’re parked here next to Scotch Settlement School,” said … Continue Reading →
AUBURN, Ind. — Auctions America’s third annual Labor Day weekend event reflected the skill that parent company RM Auctions brings to a mega-sale. Since the Ontario, Canada-based auction operation set up shop here in the summer of 2010, the once-mercurial week-long sale of pre-owned cars, trucks, motorcycles and automobilia has been organized into a shorter, … Continue Reading →
AUBURN, Ind. — Once upon a time, if you had any interest in classic cars, in seeing them and especially in buying or selling them, this northeastern Indiana town was the place to be each Labor Day weekend. In town, there was the annual Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Festival, a celebration of Indiana’s — and three of America’s … Continue Reading →