Bud Wilkinson
Columnist at Republican-American
Editor and Publisher at Ride CT & Ride New England
Harwinton correspondent for The Republican-American
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3 weeks ago |
ctinsider.com | Bud Wilkinson
WINSTED - It was six years ago when a big rig pulled up at Stew Jones Restoration on the north shore of Highland Lake. Inside the trailer was what shop owner Stew Jones now calls "probably the most significant car I've ever done" because of its rarity, design, complexity, value and the immense task required to get it on the road.
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4 weeks ago |
ctinsider.com | Bud Wilkinson
FAIRFIELD - Questions are always plentiful when Parker and Gwen Ackley take their 1911 Hupmobile Model 20 out for a drive. They've owned the two-passenger runabout for about eight years and it has been on the road for the last four years. "It's a very sporty vehicle," Parker Ackley said when My Ride visited the couple at their Fairfield home recently. "It's got rack-and-pinion steering, and it's three-quarters of a turn from stop to stop. A modern car is more like one and three-quarter turns.
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1 month ago |
ctinsider.com | Bud Wilkinson
PROSPECT - Dominick Mirabelle couldn't remember precisely how old he was when he bought his 1965 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu SS; either 19 or 20. He also couldn't pinpoint when the purchase was made; either the fall of 1964 or winter of 1965. But he did have high-beam intensity in recalling the drive home after purchasing the muscle car from the Loehmann-Blasius Chevrolet dealership in Waterbury.
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1 month ago |
ncadvertiser.com | Bud Wilkinson
Dominick Mirabelle of Prospect and the 1965 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu SS that he’s owned for 60 years. Bud Wilkinson/For Hearst Connecticut MediaPROSPECT — Dominick Mirabelle couldn’t remember precisely how old he was when he bought his 1965 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu SS; either 19 or 20. He also couldn’t pinpoint when the purchase was made; either the fall of 1964 or winter of 1965.
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1 month ago |
sheltonherald.com | Bud Wilkinson
PROSPECT — Dominick Mirabelle couldn’t remember precisely how old he was when he bought his 1965 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu SS; either 19 or 20. He also couldn’t pinpoint when the purchase was made; either the fall of 1964 or winter of 1965. But he did have high-beam intensity in recalling the drive home after purchasing the muscle car from the Loehmann-Blasius Chevrolet dealership in Waterbury.
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