The annual pilgrimage to Monterey
DATELINE AUGUST 2017,
Monterey Peninsula, California
August 11th through August 20th – Incorrectly referred to as “Monterey Car Week”, this is actually much more than a single week of festivities!
Tip: It is necessary to organize your schedule. You wouldn’t want to miss something from the massive calendar of events, they only happen once a year. The local little newspaper, The Carmel Pine Cone, lists everything. It’s free and distributed around town in stacks for the taking.
The Peninsula is a busy place for ten days. There are traffic jams, but, as I have noted in previous articles on Monterey in Rewind, these might consist of an entire show of Lamborghinis exiting a grassy field nose-to-tail for a mile! On the Thursday before Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, traffic will also be stopped in some places by the California Highway Patrol to allow the Pebble Beach Tour d’Elegance cars passage non-stop through red lights. There’s a long morning ride that stops for a two-hour lunch break with the cars abandoned for spectators to marvel at on Ocean Avenue in Carmel.
In listing this loose calendar of many of the happenings, the cast of organizers, entrants, and spectators also deserve mention. Some attendees fill several roles by bringing more than one car; one for an auction, another one or two to be raced, and one to show at one of the several concours around the Peninsula.
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The Ghost In The Machine
Co-founder of The Peninsula Classics Best of the Best, Christian Philippsen, spoke at the recent award ceremony in Carmel, California.
Cars Of The Club
1958 Riley One-Point-Five
Duncan's D
In 1948, Jaguar launched the XK 120 at the London Motor Show.
Diary Of A Petrol Head
The annual pilgrimage to Monterey
Tales From The Far East Masalat
The MG Car Company dropped the use of overhead camshaft cylinder heads with the introduction of the MG TA in 1936.
Vampires Without Coffins
The late 1980s and early 1990s were what I call my Road & Track years.
One In A Billion
Rarity of another kind Meet the only Porsche 356 in India
Heraldite
Excellent bonding of British engineering and Italian design
Singing In The Rain
No dampened spirits at The Goodwood Revival