Castle Car Show 2023

September 30, 2023 — It was another close call with a rain storm moving up from the south, but it didn't get as far north as Moultonborough, New Hampshire and the annual car show at Castle in the Clouds was a smashing success with an estimated four hundred show cars and so many spectators we were actually bumping into one another.

Very often, the mere threat of rain will keep valuable antique cars away, but this show was graced with the presence of two rare Rolls-Royce "woodies" and three 1914 Stanleys. My series includes the the process of starting the Stanleys and watching them go steaming away in video. You can see it all at his link:

https://www.linwoodstreet.com/castle2023/

Carriagetown Car Show 2023

September 23, 2023 — In another close call with the weather, common this season, Amesbury, Massachusetts made the decision to go ahead with their annual Carriagetown Car Show. Most forecasts predicted rain would begin late morning or early afternoon, so show organizers decided to have award presentation a couple of hours earlier than originally planned to hopefully give everyone a chance to get home before the storm arrived. It was unnecessary. It didn't rain all day.

The entire downtown area is closed to normal traffic for the show. Amesbury offers many good photo ops besides the cars. It's a walking city, hilly but attractive, with many old brick buildings, wooden stairways to climb to upper and lower levels, and the Powwow River tumbling down from the heights to the lower levels.

Threat of rain didn't seem to discourage attendance. The city was filled with a variety of cars, trucks and motorcycles, including some valuable antiques from the '20s and '30s and 19th Century horse-drawn carriages from the Amesbury Carriage Museum. There were so many spectators it was difficult to move about at times.

You can view my coverage of the event at:

https://www.linwoodstreet.com/carriagetown2023/