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Doug DeMuro, already a popular YouTube blogger, launched auction site Cars & Bids in 2020. Drew Martin photo … Source link

SIBLEY—Online marketplaces are booming even for items as automobiles. Normally, however, the buyers of these larger items tend to stay within a reasonable driving distance for delivery. Sibley car buff Randy Van De Berg found out some will go to great lengths to purchase a vehicle after recently finalizing a sale with a buyer from Poland. Van De Berg purchased… Source link

Photos by Stacy Harrison John Ball of Manchester had the inside of his ’64 Corvette painted with a tribute to his wife who died 10 years ago. Photo/Stacy Harrison MANCHESTER, NH – Classic cars weren’t the only thing retro on a sunny and perfect Elm Street Saturday. Two bands belted out the Stones, the Beatles and “…two riders were approaching” from Hendrix’s All Along the Watchtower, thanks to Rearview Mirror, one of the groups.  Classic cars are about colors, what’s under the… Source link

FARGO, N.D. — It’s a nine-day classic car parade, stretching over 10 states and 2,400 miles, with vintage vehicles, some more than a century old, leapfrogging across much of the United States. More than a hundred teams took part in the event in June, known as the Great Race, tracing a route from Rhode Island to North Dakota. A Time-Speed-Distance, or T.S.D., rally, the Great Race began in 1983 and follows a new course every year. Competitors must drive each segment of the precision-based… Source link

FARGO, N.D. — Driving and servicing cars built more than half a century before they were born, two Trine University students were part of teams that competed in the Hemmings Motor News Great Race. The race, held June 18-26, featured 130 vintage cars that traveled from Warwick, Rhode Island, to Fargo, North Dakota. Gavin Swift, an accounting major from Auburn,… Source link

CHIPPEWA FALLS — Millions of dollars’ worth of vintage cars are competing in a cross country race called the Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty Drivers Club. They arrived in Chippewa Falls for a lunch stop on Friday. The Great Race is a time, speed and endurance rally for 1974 and older collector vehicles. It’s based on the famous 1908 race from Paris to New York and has taken place each summer since 1983. The basic idea of the time/speed/distance rally… Source link

With engines growling and exhaust spewing, Studebakers, Hudsons, Ford Model ‘A’s and more than 160 other vintage cars rolled into the parking lot of Angell Park Speedway in Sun Prairie Thursday as part of a 2,300-mile cross-country rally race. This year’s Hemmings Motor News Great Race began Saturday in Warwick, Rhode Island, and will finish in Fargo, North Dakota on Sunday. The race reached Sun Prairie on Thursday, with the cars enroute to Wisconsin Dells for the night after… Source link

BRAINERD — The 2022 Hemmings Motor News Great Race — a time, speed, endurance rally for 1974 and older collector vehicles — will be making a stop Saturday in Brainerd. This… Source link

Classic cars, some more than 100 years old, from the United States, Japan, England, Australia and Canada, will line up at Rocky Point State Park in Warwick on Saturday for the start of a 2,300-mile rally to North Dakota. The 130 cars in the Great Race will begin gathering at 8:45 a.m., and the first car will leave at 10:30. The event is free and open to the public, according to the Rhode Island Sports Commission.  The Great Race is not a speed race, but what organizers call “a… Source link

Plainfield — A national antique and classic car rally is headed to Plainfield next week. The 2022 Hemmings Motor News Great Race will kick off in Rhode Island on June 18 and make several stops across the country, including in Plainfield on June 22. An event news release describes the 2,300-mile Great Race as the “world’s premiere old car rally.” The event will bring more than 130 antique vehicles to downtown Plainfield shortly after 4:30 p.m. on June 22. “We are excited to bring this… Source link