Sunday August 10th, 2008 brought the Hemmings Sports & Exotics Car Show to the Saratoga Automobile Museum in Saratoga Springs, New York. Triumph cars was the featured marque and sports and exotic cars of all makes came out to Saratoga Springs on this day. The show started promptly at 10am but by about 1pm heavy thunderstorms and lightning sent everyone packing and heading for the roads. The Saratoga Automobile Museum is a great venue and Saratoga Springs has so much to offer for weekend out; from Horse Racing at the famed Saratoga tracks to Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC), it’s a fantastic town to have a car show. (more…)

SCA visited recently with a buyer of a Certified Pre-Owned (CPO) 2005 BMW 745Li Sport . This CPO car has the more rare option of the “sport package” which the new owner was looking for. The new owner went with a CPO car as it comes with a great warranty. He also sought out the following features:

• long wheel base (LWB) E66 Body Li
• smaller steering wheel
• sport seats (with larger side bolsters)
• “shadowline” trim – chrome delete
• stiffer suspension package
• larger, 19inch wheels
• full-size spare
• 367 Horsepower 4.8 Liter V8 motor (n62b40)

This BMW owner was ultimately happy with the purchase from a dealership in Pittsburgh, PA, but noted that he was not impressed with the overall presentation of the car when he went to pick it up at the dealership. He noted: “I don’t think that dealership really has their ‘stuff together’; they have some improvement to do”…

Threatening showers on Wednesday July 30 lead to a smaller (than the usual 300 cars or so) turnout at Bear Mountain. A couple of die hard car enthusiasts came out to show their cars as they did not fear the rain. Hey, not all these cars are “garage queens”, though in our opinion, some of them should be. We were fortunate enough to run into the great guys from Performance Rentals, Inc who brought out their 750 Horsepower Supercharged Dodge Viper SRT-10 and their Ferrari F355 GTS. If anyone is looking to rent some killer, “real” performance cars (no paddle shifters, please), these are the guys to go to. They have a stable of about 10 awesome sports cars that you’ll definitely have some fun with. (more…)