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Klingberg Vintage Motorcar Festival

The history of Connecticut automobile manufacturing is virtually hidden to most of it’s citizens. It has only been through researching many obscure sources, that I have found how prolific the automobile industry really was in our state. Quite a bit of information has been found on the major companies like Pope-Hartford, Locomobile and Corbin where there are still representative [...]

“Hartford does not claim to have made the first automobile but does claim to have started the automotive industry,”  This statement was made by auto designer and engineer,  Henry Cave,  who worked with Daimler Motor Company, Locomobile and with George B. Seldon to design, develop and demonstrate the first Seldon patent car. (that is another [...]

Several times each year, one of Klingberg’s most famous residents leaves the hill and dutifully travels to exhibitions and festivals around the state to spread the word about the agency’s work.  Wherever he goes, he fascinates young and old alike, draws a lot of questions, and promises to tell a good story or two.  Such [...]

By Lisa Backus, Staff Writer, New Britain Herald NEW BRITAIN — Somewhere between the Caspian blue metallic 1964-and-a-half Mustang and the candy apple red and white “Starsky and Hutch” 1975 Torino, it occurs to guests and drivers at the Klingberg Vintage Motorcar Festival that it’s not just about shiny chrome and a slick paint job. [...]