By no means Cease Driving #88: Automotive Present Kickoff

I’m making an attempt one thing new this weekend and would admire your assist. As a part of The Amelia— Hagerty’s Concours d’Magnificence and all-around automotive celebration on the northeast Florida coast—Jason Cammisa and I can be commentating stay through the Broad Arrow classic-car auctions. You’ll be able to watch, totally free, in one in all two methods:

1. By way of the Broad Arrow YouTube channel;
2. On Samsung TV Plus Channel 1194, the Hagerty Channel.

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The public sale begins at 11 AM Japanese (8 AM Pacific) on Saturday and runs for many of the afternoon. Please be at liberty to touch upon the automobiles, the pageantry, and our performances as emcees through the article hyperlink under. Thanks prematurely.

I’m trying ahead to the auctions and every little thing else occurring at The Amelia. Saturday morning on the golf course, a large automobiles and low occasion runs alongside RADwood, the always-entertaining celebration of Nineteen Eighties and Nineteen Nineties automotive tradition. This yr’s seminars, emceed by NASCAR championship crew chief Ray Evernham, will have a good time 40 years of Hendrick Motorsports with Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Jeff Gordon, Ken Schrader, and Terry Labonte. Wow! The entire weekend is an opportunity to commune with automotive people and I all the time come again with new concepts, pals, and learnings. For those who make it to Amelia Island, make sure you say whats up.

Again residence in Detroit, a distinct sort of automotive present, Autorama, is occurring inside a conference heart. Autorama is just like the Oscars for warm rods, with the world’s greatest builders submitting gorgeously detailed customized automobiles in hopes of profitable the coveted Ridler Award. The contestant automobiles, which arrive in Detroit after 1000’s of painstaking hours of fabrication and portray, are often displayed with mirrors beneath so everybody can see that not one millimeter was missed for modifications and new finishes. Ridler Award contenders run effectively into the hundreds of thousands to construct as we documented in a case examine of a winner referred to as Cadmad. There’s even a particular lingo, which we outlined right here. Examine again often to Hagerty.com/media for the newest Autorama debuts.

Can’t make it to Florida for The Amelia? Right here’s the newest from Hagerty Media to gasoline your automotive ardour.

• This week’s By no means Cease Driving podcast is an invigorating dialogue with designer Richard Vaughan that delves into why new automobiles look so comparable, the inside workings of the automotive trade, and a debate over our 2024 Bull Market picks. Pay attention on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube.

• This remembrance of Canadian hockey participant Tim Horton and his demise 50 years in the past in a DeTomaso Pantera was our most-read story of the previous week. 

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Have a fantastic weekend!

Larry

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