by Editor | Mar 31, 2022 | Festival Features, News, Uncategorized
This year we will celebrate the 30th year of the Klingberg Vintage Motorcar Events. Here are some of the new elements people will enjoy: The largest-ever display of Connecticut-made cars Trophy presentations throughout the show hours, highlighted on social media...
by Editor | Jul 24, 2017 | 2017, News
Born in 1900 in Delemont, Switzerland, Gustave Schaller was a renaissance man. He could fix anything, and would make what he needed for most any situation. Gus’s family moved to Manchester, CT, when he was 14. Gus continued to live in Manchester with his wife,...
by Editor | Jul 24, 2017 | 2017, News
Ron Poupart was born in the small town of Adams, MA. He began driving at the tender (if not illegal) age of 14 while transporting his mother and grandmother, Mim, to Vermont in their brand-new Buick to play bingo. His father was killed in action at Saint-Malo in 1943,...
by Editor | Jan 19, 2018 | 2017, News, Sponsors
We owe a great debt of gratitude to Tilcon for transporting Jumbo, Hartford’s 1880’s Steam Fire Truck, to our 25th Anniversary Motorcar Festival. After searching for Jumbo for several years, we found I tin Massachusetts and owned by a private collector. It...
