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A cars and coffee meet here in Silicon Valley usually has a good turnout during the dry months. It should be raining now, but today was sunny and warm, so cars came out of the woodwork. The filthy-rich demographic was well represented, but still many people came over to talk about my Goodwood Green 67 Vette. All in all, quite a range of cars.
Nice! Same thing going on here in Northern CA. I’m amazed at the cars that role into our local cars and coffee. McClarens and high end Ferrari’s book shelfed by Corvettes, Camaro’s and Chevelle’s. It’s a beautiful site. Typically there’s 200+ cars.
We've got a C & C up in the Palos Verdes peninsula, first Saturday of every month. I haven't attended in the last couple of months including yesterday, but the last time I attended a '67 275GTB/4 showed up. The owner bought it in France in 1970 and had it repainted by the factory.
Other than the engine compartment needing some detailing it was beautiful, and I havent' seen one in person for a long time. My buddy (2001 550 Maranello) and I both know vintage Ferraris pretty well and we figured it was worth 2-3 million. The owner was a really nice and articulate guy who knew the car well, and was not at all pretentious about it. He just likes to drive it, and I can understand why.
It's my favorite F-car designed primarily for road use - utterly gorgeous and a spirited performer, too.
The modern exotics leave me a little cold - nice, high-tech, but WAAAAY too complicated and future maintenance and repair nightmares when the electronics start going south. If you have the bucks I think it's best to lease and then get something new with a warranty, but I've always IMO made good new car choices and want to keep them forever.
Another nice one was a Superformance GS replica, very nice, but I was disappointed that it had a modern LS engine rather than a vintage Gen I small block with all the goodies.
The weirdest I've seen at local cruise-ins were a '67 Amphicar and a sixties vintage Wartburg - East German, two-stroke engine, simple, but very crude. It got a lot of attention and no unkind remarks that I heard. We all loved it.
The first time I saw an Amphicar, circa '67, we were pulling a ski boat onto the trailer at the ramp under the west approach of the original floating bridge on Lake Washington. So all of a sudden this car heads down the ramp at a good clip and splashes into the water. What the F...! Is that guy crazy? I realized it was something weird when I saw the two big white plastic propellers rotating as the rear settled into the water, and he just motored away. I really enjoyed checking out the nicely restored example a few years ago.
Amen. Nobody was spending much time looking at all the late model Ferraris and certainly not at the Porsches.
Lou, I attended ours last weekend and it was well-attended due to a break in the weather- the whole event in our area skews European, Japanese, and in some ways late-model. It also seems to specialize in bringing out more unusual cars like old Alfa sedans and such. I like the variety.
There aren't many "bread and butter" American cars there, probably because many owners won't socialize with the younger generation whose cars they don't care for. It's an unfortunate bias.
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We've got a C & C up in the Palos Verdes peninsula, first Saturday of every month. I haven't attended in the last couple of months including yesterday, but the last time I attended a '67 275GTB/4 showed up. The owner bought it in France in 1970 and had it repainted by the factory.
Other than the engine compartment needing some detailing it was beautiful, and I havent' seen one in person for a long time. My buddy (2001 550 Maranello) and I both know vintage Ferraris pretty well and we figured it was worth 2-3 million. The owner was a really nice and articulate guy who knew the car well, and was not at all pretentious about it. He just likes to drive it, and I can understand why.
It's my favorite F-car designed primarily for road use - utterly gorgeous and a spirited performer, too.
The modern exotics leave me a little cold - nice, high-tech, but WAAAAY too complicated and future maintenance and repair nightmares when the electronics start going south. If you have the bucks I think it's best to lease and then get something new with a warranty, but I've always IMO made good new car choices and want to keep them forever.
Duke
My thought too, Duke. The 275GTB/4 was the high point for Ferrari styling, as was the Sting Ray for Chevy. Throw in an original XKE and my collection would be complete! To me, modern F-cars and P-cars strangely lack "presence"; they look better on computer screens then they do on the street.
We've got a C & C up in the Palos Verdes peninsula, first Saturday of every month. I haven't attended in the last couple of months including yesterday, but the last time I attended a '67 275GTB/4 showed up.
My buddy (2001 550 Maranello) and I both know vintage Ferraris pretty well and we figured it was worth 2-3 million.
It's my favorite F-car designed primarily for road use - utterly gorgeous and a spirited performer, too.
Duke
Duke here is Reggie Jackson's 275 GTB going to auction few years back in Monterey. I agree with you one of Ferrari's finest road cars. But I think it has much of the same look of a 65 or 66 C2 coupe. Your 2 to 3 million is probably the right price range for that car. https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...1&d=1517783004
THANKS-Throughly enjoyed your pictures as I sit in Northern Minnesota at 3 degrees temp covered in snow. It will easily be seventy-five more days before anyone dares to get their classics out. Nice to know the car life is alive somewhere. Love your car especially in the green.
Lou, thanks for posting the pictures. What a terrific variety of cars. It really looks like there was something there for just about ever automotive taste.
Lou, thanks for posting the pictures. What a terrific variety of cars. It really looks like there was something there for just about ever automotive taste.
02-04-2018, 03:07 PM
OT - Over-the Top local Cars and Coffee
wouldn't mind owning a vintage Ferrari
