Spring is Just Around the Corner!
February 26, 2025
The trees are starting to bud (at least where we live) and the temps are on the rise. But the biggest indicator that Spring is on the way are the number of shows getting posted to our awesome website - Car Show Radar. So bring it on Spring, and bring on the car shows, the people we will meet, the photos we love to take, the stories we get to hear and create, bring on the whole enchilada. We are so ready to get out there!
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Upcoming Car Shows
Spring is just around the corner and we can feel it. We have a lot of great shows coming in and that makes it hard to pick the ones we want to attend. Seems like a great problem to have!
And don't forget to check out all the shows for your state on Car Show Radar, our awesome site for finding and posting car shows nationwide!
See the shows we recommend this week: Car Show News
Pick of the Pics
Your Car Show Pics
Check out these awesome car show pics from our Readers. Send us your awesome car show pics and every week we'll show them off in our gallery. Show us what you got and get bragging rights with your car show friends!
Send us your awesome car show pics and every week we'll show them off in our gallery. Show us what you got and get bragging rights with your car show friends!
View the Gallery: Pick of the Pics
Portraits of the Past
Audrain Automobile Museum, Newport RI
Founded in 2014 in Newport, Rhode Island with a mission of "Preserving, Celebrating & Sharing Automotive History," the Audrain Automobile Museum connects and engages with other local non-profits and the greater Aquidneck Island community.
America’s love affair with automobiles is intrinsic, and Newport’s place in the history of the automobile is essential. The museum supports and educates the Aquidneck Island community through programs and car events, including the Audrain Newport Concours & Motor Week, "A Celebration of History, Luxury, & Sport," held each year in early October.
We've been fans of the Audrain Automobile Museum's YouTube video series for a while, especially the ones with Jay Leno, so take a look at their website and follow along on their videos, they are always fun and informative. Check it out!
Learn more: Audrain Automotive Museum
Have You Seen This?
Leno and Osborne in Audrain Mansions & Motorcars: Season 1 Episode 1: Seaweed
Join us for the first episode of Mansions & Motorcars! In this episode Jay and Donald drive a pre-war Fiat, bigger than any modern Fiat, and a wonderful restomod woody wagon.
This video ties into the Museum Shout-Out above and is the first in the series featuring Jay Leno and John Osborne where they pick cars and match them with the mansions in Newport, Rhode Island. You get cool cars and beautiful mansions and the stories and background of each. It's a wonderful series, so check it out!
Watch the video: Have You Seen This?
Off the Radar
Icons: Carl Borgward's Isabella
How many readers under the age of 50 have heard of Borgward, let alone acquired any real knowledge of the German cars? Yet, for a short time in the second half of the 1950s, the Borgward star shone brightly, before vanishing almost overnight in an unnecessary plunge into insolvency that surely could've been averted.
Carl F. W. Borgward was a German industrialist who got involved in the car business in 1919 by way of an automotive parts company called Bremer Reifen-Industrie GmbH. That company would eventually become the Borgward company. (https://auto.howstuffworks.com/story-borgward-german-carmaker-never-heard.htm)
The Borgward name is definitely one that most people don't know, even some car enthusiasts may not have heard of it. But, it holds a special place in history and is a fascinating story. Take a look at this excellent MotorTrend.com article, and do some more digging on this nearly forgotten marque. You'll be glad you checked it out.
(Excellent Photo from Bob Kauffman/Facebook)
Read the special report: Off the Radar
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