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VIDEO: 5,000 in New Canaan for ‘Caffeine & Carburetors’ 2014 Debut
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Caffeine & Carburetors, New Canaan, CT-April 6 2014
Officials estimate that 5,000 classic car owners and enthusiasts made their way to the heart of New Canaan Sunday for the first “Caffeine & Carburetors” of 2014—a grassroots event whose rapidly growing popularity has surprised even its architects. “What’s remarkable is the growth, since the onset of the digital medium,” 95.9 FM The Fox’s Peter Bush—himself a Mercedes man whose family got into classic cars in 1953 when his dad got a 1929 Ford Model A—said from Pine Street during a break from manning a microphone as hundreds of auto lovers, families, children and dogs milled about in the all-pedestrian zone there and on Park and Elm Streets, many of them sipping java from Zumbach’s Gourmet Coffee. NewCanaanite.com stole Bush for a quick interview that you’ll see in the video above that we put together. One quick note on this: You’re listening to a song that Phil Williams and Jim O’Neil at New Canaan Music wrote specifically for Caffeine & Carburetors—lyrics can be found at the bottom of this page—and we included a clip of a band playing live music off of Elm, and also ran into some of our favorite locals for quick chats, have a look.
This year, given the heights that Caffeine & Carburetors had reached at the end of the 2013 season, New Canaan’s own Doug Zumbach worked with police and municipal officials, as well as the New Canaan Chamber of Commerce, to bring cars to Elm Street on this sunny, cool day.