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WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Washington negotiators continued to reach for a long-delayed agreement on COVID-19 relief on Monday, but rank-and-file Democrats appeared increasingly resigned to having to drop, for now, a scaled-back demand for fiscal relief for states and local governments whose budgets have been thrown out of balance by the pandemic. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., spoke with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin by phone Monday evening and continues to press for help for… Source link

Sue and Joe Amenta, of Windsor, Connecticut, wear 1960s-appropriate attire as they show off their 1969 Plymouth Barracuda at the Hemmings Motor News Concours d’Elegance on Sunday at the Charles R. Wood Festival Commons in Lake George. The couple, who won a costume contest at the show, bought the car in 1968 because they needed to replace their convertible with a hardtop when they had children. The car has 184,000 miles on it.  Source link

Buffalo was once a serious car town. Some of the world’s greatest cars were manufactured here, hence the Pierce Arrow. On Saturday, June 23, the Buffalo Transportation Pierce-Arrow Museum will be hosting an event (8 AM – 11 AM) that pays tribute to the golden age of the automobile. According to the museum, “The Great Race, the world’s premiere old car rally, will bring 120 of the world’s finest antique automobiles to town for the $150,000 event.” Cars built in… Source link

GETTY It has been revealed that the UK is the second most congested country in the world TomTom (TOM2) today released the results of the TomTom Traffic Index 2016, the annual report detailing the cities around the world with the most traffic congestion.  The UK’s traffic congestion level has increased by 5 per cent since last year, with drivers now spending an average extra 5 days a year in congestion.  The UK was home to 11 cities in the top 100 ranking including; Belfast, Edinburgh,… Source link

LAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Proxibid, the world’s most trusted way to connect buyers and sellers of highly valued items like collector cars, and Hemmings, the leading resource for collector car enthusiasts, today announced a strategic partnership that brings Proxibid’s transactional capabilities to Hemmings.com, and exposes dealers to the industry’s most robust collector car network. Now, sellers using Hemmings listing services can… Source link

Racers competing in the Hemming’s Motor News Great Race, a cross-country road rally of antique vehicles took a lunch break at the Iowa 80 Trucking Museum Sunday, June 26, 2016 then headed to the finish line in downtown Moline, Illinois. The Great Race is a time/speed/endurance road-rally for vintage vehicles, manufactured at least forty-five years ago. The 2016 event was run over nine days, starting in San Rafael, California on June 18th and ending on June 26th in… Source link

See more GTA Spano pics We’re sorry. We shouldn’t be cynical when a start-up company releases a bunch of shiny pictures of an identikit supercar promising Veyron-beating performance at a tenth of the price. Like this, the happily named Spano from Spanish racing outfit GTA Motor. We want to believe their claims that it’ll do 0-60mph in under three seconds and top out at 210mph, courtesy of an all-new V10 putting 780bhp and 679lb ft of torque to the rear wheels through a seven-speed… Source link