If you go to enough car shows, after a while they can really all start to feel the same: an asphalt parking lot, 50 or so cars, and rubbery hamburgers come to mind. So when you arrive at a unique venue with some style, a wide swath of cool cars, AND the food is half […]
Five Cars Made Famous by ‘80s TV Shows
The 1980s were an exciting time to watch television. The broad availability of cable reception and the nearly universal adoption of color TVs by this time gave birth to exciting new options like MTV. In fact, that one channel and the popularity of its medium – music videos – changed the way a lot of […]
Takeaways From AACA Fall Hershey Swap Meet 2023
I took a day out of the office this week to visit the sweetest town in America – Hershey, Pennsylvania – for the annual Eastern Fall Meet of the Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA) Hershey Region. Hershey is not only home to the namesake chocolate company, but also the AACA itself. And since 1955, […]
The Rewards of Membership – Why Car Clubs Still Matter
Since the dawn of the motoring age more than a century ago, automotive enthusiasts have formed clubs to bond over their shared interests. The earliest clubs, like the Automobile Club de France formed in 1895, were established primarily as support networks for owners of those first crude and notoriously unreliable horseless carriages. These clubs evolved […]
Coatesville Vintage Grand Prix Brings Road Racing Back to its Roots
In the decade that followed WWII, sports car racing skyrocketed in popularity in the United States. Early sports car clubs set up makeshift race courses on the public streets of now legendary towns like Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin; Watkins Glen, New York; Pebble Beach, California; and countless others. Coatesville, Pennsylvania was not on that list, but […]
L’oe Show 2023 – An Extraordinary Celebration of VW Culture
The Volkswagen enthusiast has long been defined by the divide between fans of the company’s early aircooled (Beetle, Bus, Karmann-Ghia) and later watercooled (Jettas, GTIs, Corrados, etc.) models. But in reality, today’s VW community is far more complex than simply whether you prefer a radiator or not. In fact, it extends well beyond the VW […]
Hanging at the Carlisle All Truck Nationals 2023
We ventured out to central PA this past weekend to check out Carlisle All Truck Nationals, or Truck Nats for short. Coming from the Minitrucker side of things, in Pennsylvania this is about as good as the shows get close to home, and this year didn’t disappoint. With literally thousands of vehicles from lifted, to […]
Eastwood 2024 Calendar Shoot – Pottstown
There are a couple ways to know for sure that summer is winding down. The first is back-to-school sales, followed closely by kids actually going back to school. The second is the return of Pumpkin Spice-flavored everything. Needless to say, it’s practically fall already, and for us that means getting our next Eastwood calendar put […]
Hanging at the Carlisle All Truck Nationals 2023 – The Garage™
We ventured out to central PA this past weekend to check out Carlisle All Truck Nationals, or Truck Nats for short. Coming from the Minitrucker side of things, in Pennsylvania this is about as good as the shows get close to home, and this year didn’t disappoint. With literally thousands of vehicles from lifted, to […]
Attend a Classic Car Auction in Person To Discover What You Won’t See on TV – The Garage™
These days you can’t turn around without bumping into a car auction somewhere, especially online and on TV. Auction sites like BringaTrailer.com and Carsandbids.com have, in fact, become media platforms in their own right, both feeding and reporting on the hottest trends in the marketplace. And live feeds from national auction firms like Mecum fill […]