Tag: cars
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One last rumble: Hot Rod Rock & Rumble returns before Pikes Peak International Raceway closes
There aren’t many chances left to hear engines roar across the asphalt of Pikes Peak International Raceway. Before the nearly 30-year-old racetrack closes after the 2026 season, one of its signature weekends is returning for a final lap. The Hot Rod Rock & Rumble will celebrate its 10th anniversary Aug. 13-16, filling the Fountain track…
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Expanded Hill Climb Fan Fest expected to draw 35,000 to downtown Colorado Springs
More than 35,000 race fans are expected to gather in downtown Colorado Springs on Friday for the annual Fan Fest, a multi-block celebration before Sunday’s The Broadmoor Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. This year, one of the city’s biggest street parties will be even bigger, spanning Tejon Street from Platte Avenue to Vermijo Avenue, event…
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Hot Rod Rock and Rumble coming to PPIR this weekend
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Grease your hair and tie your bandana. The Hot Rod Rock and Rumble is returning this weekend for its ninth year at Pikes Peak International Raceway. The family-friendly car show will have a display of pre-1976 classic vehicles, pinup contests, drag races, camping, tattoos, vintage…
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Paving the way: How women are carving out their own lane in Colorado Springs’ car scene
Since Kaitlynn Jones was 16, she’s driven a “cool car.” It makes sense — she loves cars, an interest she attributes to her dad, who sold vehicles her whole life. But, despite her passion, she struggled to find belonging in the Colorado Springs car scene. “I had gone to a few local car meets in…
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LIFE | Georgetown Ice Racing
For the past 47 years, Our Gang 4 Wheelers club has hosted an obscure yet quintessential Colorado wintertime activity: ice racing across a frozen lake in the mountains. For seven weekends throughout January and February, the club gathers in Georgetown, Colo. to compete in different classes and obstacle courses atop the town’s lake, which this…
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SCENES FROM | 100th Pikes Peak International Hill Climb
Sights and sounds from the running of the 100th Pikes Peak International Hill Climb on June 26, 2022.
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LIFE | A Coloradan’s little, one-of-a-kind car that could
Steve Cowdin of Larkspur is restoring a one-of-a-kind little car built by John Micklitsch in 1953. The car is 8 1/2 feet long, 2 1/2 feet wide, complete with copper grille, stainless steel trim, mile-o-meter gauge, Model T battery and Briggs and Stratton engine. (Video by Seth Boster)
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NEWS | Colorado Springs auto repair shop closing after 64 years
After 64 years in the business, Speedometer and Alternator Service Co. just east of downtown Colorado Springs is closing shop. Ellwood Buster, who goes by the nickname Rusty, took over the auto repair business from his father, who bought the business in 1957. But like many retailers, Rusty discovered in recent years that he was losing sales…
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Road rage to blame for 13-year-old shot near Colorado Springs
A 13-year-old girl was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries Sunday afternoon after a man fired three gunshots during a road rage incident in southern Colorado Springs, law enforcement said. A vehicle with five people inside was headed south on Interstate 25 around 1 p.m. when a white GMC Acadia drove up “aggressively” behind the first vehicle, officials…
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Colorado car and truck sales up in first quarter of 2021
Colorado automobile sales were up 3.2% in the first quarter from the same period last year and are expected to keep climbing through 2021, according to the Colorado Automobile Dealers Association. “The increase would have been higher were it not for the typical lag in measuring registrations,” according to the report called Colorado Auto Outlook,…