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All the cool kids love Hampton Car Club. (Photo credit: Doug Young)
For Chelsea Sweeney, cars just make sense.
“I’ve always liked fixing things,” she says. “And I just thought that [cars] were so cool.”
The Baiting Hollow resident is the co-owner, along with her husband Mike, of Hampton Car Club in Southampton. Opening last July, they took over what was home to Southampton Auto and Marine Upholstery, a mainstay owned by Mike’s father that served the area for about 40 years. Since taking over the County Road 39 location, its gears have shifted.
Amy Zavatto is the Editor-in-Chief for southforker, northforker and Long Island Wine Press. She's a wine, spirits, and food journalist whose work appears in Wine Enthusiast, InsideHook.com, MarthaStewart.com, the New York Post, Liquor.com, SevenFifty Daily, Imbibe, Men’s Journal and many others. She's the author of The Big Book of Bourbon Cocktails, Prosecco Made Me Do It: 60 Seriously Sparkling Cocktails, Forager’s Cocktails: Botanical Mixology with Fresh, Natural Ingredients, and The Architecture of the Cocktail. She is a respected judge for the American Craft Spirits Association’s annual small-production spirits competition, and has moderated numerous panels on the topics of wine, spirits, cocktails, and regional foodways. She is the former Deputy Editor for the regional celebratory publications, Edible Manhattan and Edible Brooklyn, as well as the former Executive Director of the Long Island Merlot Alliance. She is a member of the New York chapter of the international organization of women leaders in food, wine, and spirits, Les Dames d’Escoffier. The proud daughter of a butcher, Amy is originally from Shelter Island, N.Y., where she developed a deep respect for the East End’s natural beauty and the importance of preserving and celebrating it and its people.