Micro & Mini Car Day

Every year the Larz Anderson Museum (a.k.a. Museum of Transportation, to some) in Brookline, MA puts on a number of Lawn Events. All of those events are themed in some way, for instance in the past I have attended the Italian Car Day, German Car Day, British Car Day and Mercedes Benz Day.

I would love to attend all of them as they are always a lot of fun and few gems can always be found, but with my limited time I can only pick and choose the few I go to. This first event I attended this year was the Micro & Mini Car Day and I must say that it blew my mind. … Continue Reading

Fourth of July Cop Car Spectacular

Almost a million people assembled in Boston this Sunday for the annual Fourth Of July concert and fireworks on the Esplanade. In order to have the upper hand on this many people, many of whom get liquored up, Cambridge and Boston Police Departments, Massachusetts State Police, EMS, and Fire Departments set all kinds of equipment in order to be ready for just about anything. … Continue Reading

Exotic Car Rally!

You have finally made it. It was a lot of hard work, it was making the right choices, probably being at the right place at the right time and, admit it, luck. You did whatever it took to get here, and finally you have arrived, Mr. Bigshot/CEO/President/Money Launderer/Entrepreneur/Thief/Golden Parachute Recipient/Inventor/Genius/Hedge Fund manager/Ponzi Scheme Person/E-list Actor/Blogger/Lottery Winner/Inventor of TopsyTail/etc, etc. You have your multi-million dollar house, paid off of course, boat, vacations, and all the other good stuff. Now, since everyone at the country club has one, you must get an exotic supercar. Yes, so you get the latest and greatest limited edition Italian with a dozen cylinders and stuff you could not possibly explain to anyone, but it doesn’t matter, because YOU have it and they don’t!

So…, now what?

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Newport Concours D’Elegance

The annual Newport Concours D’Elegance was held this past weekend in Newport, Rhode Island. This being my first concours attendance I was expecting to see a ton of older rich, cigar smoking guys with British vintage cars. I was expecting them to drive through the center of the gathering, applaud themselves, drink liquor, and later congratulate themselves for something and go home with their trophy wives.  … Continue Reading

Gumballers Invade Boston

For more than ten years the Gumball 3000 rally has been attracting D-list celebrities and their over-priced cars. This year, for the first time they came to Boston to start off the North American leg of the rally.

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For some reason the cars were shipped Bangor Maine as opposed to the Logan Airport in Boston and therefore delayed getting here. The arrival preceded late night partying followed by a 9am departure for Canada; these guys are really going to need those energy drinks. Pictures are courtesy of my friends at Veloz Media and Superior Detail Supplies. … Continue Reading

F40 Motorsports Open House

F40 Motorsports, hosted its annual Open House this weekend. Located in Portland Connecticut, about an hour-and-half drive from either Boston or New York City, it is a restoration shop and dealership made famous by HD Theater‘s show Chasing Classic Cars.

Some time ago I visited F40 for their monthly Cars & Coffee event and was overwhelmed by the amazing machinery there. This event however was much greater, with almost 300 cars showing off and probably close to a thousand visitors. This time around the F40 garages and work shops were open for a glance and more modern exotics showed up.

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2010 New York Auto Show

There are many websites out there that will bring you the latest news on all things that occurred at the NYIAS. Yes, there were concept cars, new vehicles revealed, special cars and ton of other crap. I do not consider CarGuyDad to be a news website, so instead I will just write about the things I liked and did not like at the show.

Here in alphabetical order, in over a hundred pictures and more than 2400 words are my views on the 2010 New York international Auto Show. Enjoy and thanks for looking. … Continue Reading

The 1993-ish New York International Auto Show!!

The New York International Auto Show, an event that I have been religiously attending for over twenty years. The show usually runs for ten days at the end of March. This year is the first year that I will be attending with an official media pass, which I am totally psyched about.

Before going see all the new 2011 cars this year, I thought it would be a good idea to reflect back. Even in my early teenage years I knew I wanted to write or talk about cars. Each year at the show I would take a ton of pictures with a cheap 35mm point-and-shoot camera and have them developed at a 1-hour photo as soon as I got back home. Being that the internet did not exist at the time, I found anyone and everyone I could to discuss the cars and my pictures with. It was brutal, no one escaped.

I scanned the following thirty-plus pictures from early- to mid-ninety’s New York Auto Show. Interesting concepts, new premiers (OMG, Eagle Talon TSi!!), race cars of the time and of course everyone’s favorite, the exotics. Enjoy. … Continue Reading

Cars & Coffee at F40 Motorsports

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I hear crying on Saturday at 4:30am. Ugh, it was going to be one of those days. To my surprise, my daughter went back to sleep within a few minutes, but I didn’t. Earlier in the week I learned that F40 Motorsports, famous from the HD Theather show Chasing Classic Cars,will be having a cars-and-coffee event. Getting up at 5am on a Saturday to drive almost two hours to look at some cars is not exactly my cup of tea (sorry for the pun), but since I was already up I decided to grab my camera and I quietly sneaked out of the house.* … Continue Reading

Spotted: BABE Rally “99 Problems but the Babe Ain’t One” Car

At first my thought was that this was some 24 Hours of LeMons reject, but I saw no roll-bar and signs of any real battle damage. Googling the “99 Problems” sticker on the car revealed a video which showed the vehicle being part of the 2009 BABE Rally.

In 2009 a team that called themselves “99 Problems but the Babe Ain’t One” has entered the rally in a Volvo 245. Below is a video of the Swedish monster in action. Judging by the video, the Volvo has seen better days. We don’t know how the 245 went from being a perfectly good wagon to this pseudo pick-up-truck-convertible-sedan thing. As weird as it may look, it appears to be completely road legal as it has lights, windshield, and license plane. … Continue Reading

Behind the scenes at Rolex 24 at Daytona

The 48th running of the Rolex 24 at Daytona is now behind us. With heavy rains, record setting 53 lead changes and a margin of victory of less than a minute, this year’s 24 was a spectacular race to watch. The coverage by SpeedTV was decent, but of course at night they had to throw in a re-run of some old NASCAR race that no one could care less about. Fortunately my friends from VelozMedia were in Daytona along with Turner Motorsport Team producing a behind-the-scenes documentary of Turner’s journey through the race.

VelozMedia’s staff photographer, Tim Hourihan, has been kind enough to share some of the images he has gathered for the documentary. Since we have all seen races, be it on TV or live, I have selected over a hundred pictures from Tim’s gallery that give us the best perspective of how it is to be on the crew of a three-car race team at Daytona. At the end of the day one questions remains: which did they consume more of, gasoline or coffee? … Continue Reading

Snow Run! Off-Roading in Snowy California

My buddy Andy, with whom I went off-roading last year, has moved to California for school. His trip west in the Jeep CJ-8 was quite adventurous, but unfortunately all the pictures from it went missing.

Now that Andy has settled in and got the Scrambler back in the proper working order, he went on an off-road snow run. To us normal people that means driving 4WD vehicles with big tires on what essentially are hiking trails. Below pictures are telling a story; from the meeting point, up through the mountains, until they get caught in a storm. At that point  they concluded that beer and burgers are more fun. Enjoy.

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2010 New York Motorcycle Show

I don’t own a motorcycle and I even failed my motorcycle license test (story below), but I really do appreciate them. Short of cars such as the Lotus Exige, Caterham, or Ariel Atom, motorcycles are the most direct connection between a man (or a chick) and a machine. There is no safety devices, no electronic nannies, no OBD2, no emissions systems, and nothing that does not serve a purpose. That is exactly what makes motorcycles so great. Combine that with the idea of freedom that these machines offer and it is no wonder why they are loved so much.

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Turner Motorsport’s Journey to the 24 Hours of Daytona

There is only one answer to the age old question: what do you want to do when you grow up? That answer is “do what you love”. So what do you do when you love cars and movies? Simple, you do what what my friends Miguel Aponte-Rios and Baer Connard did – you start Veloz Media, a film production company specializing in motorsport programming.

Recently Turner Motorsport, a BMW performance shop and a race team, has contracted Veloz Media to do behind-the-scenes chronicle showcasing their efforts and journey in the Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona race. Turner is entering this race with a new Riley-chassis race car powered by a 5-liter BMW V8 engine racing the GT Class. Below is a teaser video of the preparations going into the race as well as Turner/Veloz Media press release. Have a look, this promises to be an epic series of films. … Continue Reading

Amazing Dakar Rally Pictures

I don’t often post pictures that I that I have not taken myself, but these really took my breath away. If you have never heard of the Dakar Rally, which for the last two years takes place in South America as opposed to Dakar due to terrorist threats, read up on it here. This is one of these things that I would love to do before I die… and hopefully not die during.

Imagine a combination of rally racing and off-roading, all done in a completely remote area with limited support, that is Dakar Rally. All other forms of auto racing are almost amateur in comparison. Enjoy more pics after clicking ->

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