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BBC News
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Withernsea's century-old carnival parade returns on August 16
A 101-year-old carnival is returning to an East Yorkshire seaside town next month. The Withernsea Carnival Parade will see hundreds of people march through the streets in fancy dress, accompanied by vintage cars. Taking place on Saturday 16 August, the parade will begin at 13:30 BST from Withernsea High School and finish at 14:00 at Valley Wharam, vice chairwoman of the organising group, said: "It gives you goosebumps when you see everyone lining the streets." The parade has been running since 1924 but was put on hold during the Covid-19 pandemic. Ms Wharam said the event had been growing since it returned three years ago, with last year's parade drawing a crowd of about 500 people."It's just great to see everybody coming out of their houses and lining the streets," she said."You can't move in Queen Street, Hull Road and the surrounding streets. People look forward to seeing it."There will be a range of activities, including music and craft stalls from 11:00 in Valley Gardens. There will also be a car treasure hunt in the parade is part of a week-long series of events celebrating carnival week, which will run from 9 to 17 events throughout the week include a beach day and a trip to Withernsea lighthouse. Listen to highlights from Hull and East Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, watch the latest episode of Look North or tell us about a story you think we should be covering here. Download the BBC News app from the App Store for iPhone and iPad or Google Play for Android devices
BBC News
4 days ago
- Automotive
- BBC News
'Tram Sunday' event returns to Fleetwood for 40th anniversary
Transport enthusiasts are marking the 40th anniversary of the Fleetwood Festival of Transport, traditionally known as Tram celebrate the milestone, organisers are encouraging attendees to dress up in 1980s outfits, with prizes available for the best-dressed adult, teen and event is a free, family friendly event showcasing of retro and vintage cars, motorcycles, commercial vehicles, electric vehicles and replica cars from film and will be no vintage trams this year, as the Blackpool fleet will not be up and running until the start of the Lightpool event in October, but it is hoped they will be back for next year's event, Wyre Council said. Batmobile and DeLorean Alongside the vehicle displays, visitors can enjoy live performances and street theatre, food and drink stalls, fairground rides, family zones and kids' entertainment, market traders and local crafts, the Local Democracy Reporting Service the vehicles on show are Lightning McQueen from Cars, Ecto 1 from Ghostbusters, the A-Team Van, the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles Van, KITT from Knight Rider, the General Lee from Dukes of Hazzard, the 1989 Batmobile, the DeLorean from Back to the Future and Transformers favourites Bumblebee and Optimus Dooney, marketing manager for the festival, said: "Reaching this milestone is a real achievement and the interest from transport enthusiasts and local families is as strong as ever." Listen to the best of BBC Radio Lancashire on BBC Sounds and follow BBC Lancashire on Facebook, X and Instagram and watch BBC North West Tonight on BBC iPlayer.
New York Times
4 days ago
- Automotive
- New York Times
Rétromobile Is Heading to New York
In February over five days at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles convention center, 146,000 people attended an event that has been on the Paris show calendar since 1976. There were oysters from Normandy, Champagne and caviar, along with $300 driving shoes and $1,000 leather jackets. But the classic cars — plus the vintage automobile headlights, taillight lenses, radios and other bric-a-brac for sale on nearby tables — were a sure sign that this was not a fashion gala. Rather, it was a car show, French style. Rétromobile to be exact, an indoor colossus that is coming to the Javits Convention Center for the first time in November 2026. Rétromobile is unknown to many Americans who are not immersed in the international vintage car scene. It combines a high-end, classic car auction with displays from European and North American classic car dealers and parts sellers. There are vendors of virtually every classic-car product imaginable, including apparel and automotive artwork. In an interview in June, David Gooding, founder of the auction company Gooding & Company, compared it to Art Basel for cars. The show's ability to surprise and delight with pieces like World War I tanks and early steam-powered vehicles are its calling card. There are no corn dogs or fried Twinkies, but plenty of lobster salad and French wines. Now the big question is, will the show strike a similar chord with a predominantly American audience? Attendance at Rétromobile Paris has been rising since the pandemic, to 146,000 last year from 122,000 in 2022. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
CBS News
5 days ago
- Automotive
- CBS News
Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix returns this weekend with new route
The Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix is returning to Schenley Park this weekend and will have a new route this year. The lawns of the park are going to be full of new and vintage cars this weekend as the week-long event enters its final lap. This will be the Grand Prix's 43rd year and if you've never been, you can catch sports car races, a huge car show with more than 3,000 vehicles expected, and all kinds of other activities, providing fun for the whole family. There are two new course routes this year, including the 2-Mile UPMC Schenley Oval Circuit. With the Panther Hollow Bridge closed, the updated track combines classic sections with new turns, elevation changes, the iconic hay bale chicane, the Boulevard of the Allies straights, and fan zones inside the oval. There also will be a 1-Mile Hillclimb that will start near Phipps Conservatory and will climb West Circuit Drive and end near the Neil Log House. Some of the top viewing spots for the events include the Vietnam Veterans Pavilion and the Schenley Overlook. Aside from various road closures in and around the park, the Schenley Pool will be closed through Sunday and the Bob O'Connor Golf Course will be closed all weekend due to the races. The vintage races start at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday. Admission is $10 per person, which goes to Autism Pittsburgh and the Merakey Allegheny Valley School.
Yahoo
03-07-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
This New York Dealer Imports the Rarest and Most Expensive Cars on Earth
If you want to import a vintage car to the United States, it's no problem. You can call up an import shop like Inbound Motorsports and a few grand later, the 25-years-old-or-older car you bought overseas will be waiting for you at the docks. But what if you want something a little bit more modern? If you want to import anything newer than 25 years old, you need to go through what's called a registered importer: a shop federally licensed to work directly with the Department of Transportation and Environmental Protection Agency to ensure any new vehicle sold Stateside complies with all of our relevant safety and emissions standards. And if you want to go to a registered importer around New York City, there's only one game in town: Autosport Designs, a few stops down the LIRR in Huntington Station, Long Island. More from Robb Report Inside the World of Secret Superyacht Sales That Even Brokers Know Nothing About Here's What Locals Really Think About Jeff Bezos's Venice Wedding Spas Are Leaning Into Science-Based Treatments More Than Ever Before 'We can bring over anything,' says Dawn Cames, Autosport's general manager. 'There's nothing that we stay away from, just because it's in another country.' The reason why registered importers exist in the first place goes back to the 1980s, when fly-by-night importers brought over (West) German-market cars by the containerful at a perfect intersection of yuppie demand and a weak Deutschmark. But regulation at the end of the decade and the general trend towards homogenization across markets in the auto industry have largely put an end to anybody importing anything as pedestrian as a Mercedes-Benz. Given the amount of time and effort to bring anything new over, it's no surprise that the market has moved to the high end. The very high end. 'We've probably had that car at our facility for a good six or seven weeks,' Cames tells me. We're talking about the gleaming blue Lotus Evija sitting above us, sunshine looping over its carbon-fiber skin. An all-electric hypercar, it stickers at $2.4 million. Best of Robb Report The 2024 Chevy C8 Corvette: Everything We Know About the Powerful Mid-Engine Beast The World's Best Superyacht Shipyards The ABCs of Chartering a Yacht Click here to read the full article. A factory-authorized Lotus dealer, Autosport works with both the DOT and the EPA to bring over even the automaker's most limited-edition models. 'We're in the process of it now. We're still waiting on them to test the vehicle itself. They have all the documentation that's required. […] But they started the process months and months… probably a year and a half ago.' There are two caveats to the registered importer requirements. The first is that you can sidestep registered importers altogether if the vehicle in question is 25 years old or older. That's a product of the '25-Year Rule,' the aforementioned 1988 amendment to our Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards. The second is that the rarest and most valuable cars can make their way into the U.S. under two conditions. They still have to go through a registered importer, and they have to keep to 2,500 miles per year – basically driving to car shows or race tracks and back. This is called the 'Show and Display' rule, a 1999 amendment put in place so that Bill Gates could drive his Porsche 959 around. (U.S. Customs impounded Gate's 959 for 13 years while he and his friends lobbied for the legislation.) Show and Display is one of Autosport's specialties. I can't help but notice an Aston One-77 peeking at me from the edge of Autosport's basement garage. It shouldn't be here. Aston never sold the One-77 in the States, as it didn't conform to all our automotive standards. With a limited production run of 77 cars, Aston didn't need the American market and didn't go through the trouble of certification. Among all the One-77s that Autosport brought over, this is owner and founder Tom Papadopoulos' personal car. Getting it here took some ingenuity. 'I should have bought a Honda franchise,' Papadopoulos says as he strides in through the front door. His walk to his office takes him past a Mercedes SLR McLaren Roadster, a Jaguar XJ220, a Bugatti Veyron, and a 1954 Ferrari 250 GT race car, one of four lightweights ever made, two of which have survived to this day. 'Price upon request' is what they say on the dashboard, but the first two of those could easily separate you from half a million dollars each; the latter two are seven-figure machines. You're not leaving the showroom with that Ferrari for less than five million. 'We brought in the One-77s for Aston,' Papadopoulos clarifies, 'I brought in a bunch of shit for Aston because we always were called upon to do what they couldn't get done in the States because we're still the colonies for them.' Having also brought over the V600 Le Mans and DB7 Zagato under Show and Display, Autosport Designs can act as a bridge for smaller-scale automakers to get into the American market. Papadopoulos has the light touch of a native New Yorker and explains that limited-production cars can get held up from American sales for seemingly nonsensical reasons. The One-77, according to Papadopoulos, passed all of our testing standards but was blocked because it didn't have OBD, the onboard diagnostic standard that also gets used for identifying a car in states that use barcodes for registration. Some piggybacked software (and a couple hundred pages of documentation), and it was good to go. These hold-ups can be 'like getting a bad DMV office,' as Papadopoulos puts it. For any of his grousing about wishing he had a Honda franchise, Papadopoulos knows this business back to front. He's deeply involved in purchases and sales, and I watch as he discusses with a customer what vintage Porsche would be right for his kind of driving and lifestyle. And I don't mean generally – Papadopoulos runs through a mental list, down to the serial number, knowing which 1970s RSR is real and which is a replica, which has what spec of engine, which got repainted in what year. He knows these cars, their histories, and their owners personally. Some of them he has raced against in the American Le Mans Series or Ferrari Challenge. These end up being long relationships, with both owners and their cars. Papadopoulos often ends up buying cars back as they shuffle around their automotive wardrobe. Autosport Designs is very much his company, trading on connections Papadopoulos has made since its founding in 1989 and before. In the end, vintage cars make up the lion's share of Autosport Design's business. There are well over a hundred cars on the premises, some eye-wateringly desirable and rare. One even stumps me: it's a Sbarro Testa Rossa 'Baby,' a pint-sized 1950s race car replica built in the 1980s for children. Vintage cars not only let him weather any tariff-oriented storm, but they also give a sense of the ethos of Autosport Design's import work. It's just a means to an end, a way of getting whatever car that their customer desires, whatever the price, wherever it may be.
