Reflections on a Car Show

I remember the big annual car show that was held downtown in the stately old Music Hall in Cincinnati, Ohio, when I was growing up. It was a huge venue and there were always what seemed like hundreds of new, shiny, big, impressive examples of Detroit iron. And there were always some way-out concept “cars of the future” to make a wide-eyed kid dizzy with dreams of one day driving something like that. Well, Detroit today ain’t what it was – no offense to Clint Eastwood. Cars ain’t what they used to be, and car shows ain’t what they used to be either. (Okay, enough ain’ts.) This isn’t to diminish the NC International Auto Expo held at the Wake County Fairgrounds during the second weekend of February. It’s a fine effort,...

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