April Cars and Coffe - post your stories...

Oh... A few more?

These were all taken at Cars and Coffee at the Canepa Motorsports facility I. Scott's Valley, CA.  The bare metal car is a 275 GTB. The cobra is the last one most original AC Cobra built.

Ted, when did you install that super cool lift in your garage?

 

Oh that ole' thing...

There were so many cars, I didn't know what to photograph!? I saw at least one other SOC members car there. He hid from me, but I saw his co-pilot.

I broke the number one rule, and adjusted my clutch this morning (at 6am). I tightened it too much and found that it was slipping under hard acceleration. Found that out while leaving the event today.   clutch slipped a bit on exit...

Leaving is always a spectators event, so imagine my embassment when I went to grab second and the RPMs betrayed me.

115 miles round trip. Up and over Hecker Pass and that's the ONLY time the clutch slipped.

Oh well.

Share your stuff guys,
Ted

Ted,

 

Thanks for the great pics.  We had planned on attending, the C& C in Scotts Valley.  But had "appointments" with both ATT and Comcast. Only 10 minutes from our cabin in Felton. But there are more until October:

 

Our

Canepa Cars & Coffee

Looking for an excuse to hit the road? Starting April 11th, Canepa will open its doors (and parking lot) for a coffee-fueled celebration of all things automotive. Roll out your pride and joy and join your fellow lead foots for an amazing morning of classics, exotics, race cars, hot rods, and motorcycles. Canepa Cars & Coffee will take place from 8am-12pm on the second Saturday of the month through October. The perfect event for clubs, aficionados, and car crazies of all ages!   

 

Thanks again for the nice shoots! Maybe next time!

Art! Soooo bummed that I missed you guys. The event was PACKED.  Tons of spectators. Awesome cars. The hosts were very gracious.

Will be back!

Ted

I'm really sorry I didn't get to meet you. When you stopped by my car I was drooling over the toys in the workshop! i have a real weakness for Porsche 959's so Canepa is an ideal place for me. I checked out your speedster which looked fantastic and I hope we'll get a second chance to meet at the west coast cruise! Best Chris

No pictures but a terrific welcome.

I went to a British Car Fest at the Jersey Shore this afternoon. As I started to park in the street next to their viewing lot the show director came over to me and moved the wooden horses and asked me to pull in and join there cars on display. Great guys lots of Q and A, made me feel welcomed. My first encounter and a great time.

 

Craig, that's cool!

Bummer I missed it And I was down there checking on the house. I ran out to aptos  in the morning and saw some porsche coming back from Scott's valley at the fish hook. Well maybe next month. 

My car in normal London weather.....

Our weather near Boston looks the same as London.

 

Inwould LOVE to get out there driving in April, and there is a cars and coffee coming up in Rhode Island, about an hour away, but it may be too cool and rainy until next month - we'll have to see........Got my fingers crossed!

No photos, but went to our first Sat 'cars 'n coffee' here. Caught a ration from some of the guys I know about the Speedster...hey this is American Muscle country...fools just do not know how much fun this little car is to drive.

 

 

BTW, That #2 Gulf Porsche 917 is owned, or used to be owned??? by a friend of mine, Johan Vanderveke. Saw him run it a couple times in vintage races in Sebring, Vegas and Infineion several years ago. Awesome car! He also owns the #6 Gulf GT-40...got to drive that thing once in Vegas...scared s#i+less... driving a car on a race track worth more than 1.5M...don't think I ever got it over 80mph...LOL

 

 

 

Hunt Valley Horsepower (aka "cars and coffee," Sat a.m.) the week after their "big one." I blogged it up here.

That is an awful lot of P-cars there.  Do they group them by make/model/import/American or did it just work out that way???

Car groups gather at Zero-Dark-Thirty to park together. Around the corner was a large Lambo group, then Ferraris, MacLarens, Detroit steel and everything else in-between!  

OK, now I've seen just about everything......

 

A Mini-Bike......

 

Running a turbo-charged Honda lawn tractor engine (Overhead valve, of course!).....

 

AND Nitrous injection.

 

Must be a terror in the pits at the local dragway........Or maybe even out on the track!

 

Better yet, smoking around the neighborhood streets!

Here's something you may have never seen, Gordon...a Little Red Wagon with a turbo charged Briggs-Stratton kart engine w/ nitro boost. My buddy Don built this thing several years ago...and damn is it fast, it will wheel stand coming off the line, thus the wheelie bars out back and the drag chute need to slow it down. It has kart steering and 4 wheel disc brakes. Don ran it once at Bandimere Drag Strip, he hit 95mph in the quarter...track officials banned him from ever running it again there...LOL

 

Don built the trailer it sits on and he hauls it with his "A" 5-window coupe.

 

 

Your friend Don is either very brave, completely insane, or both.  I'm leaning toward both.

There is absolutely NO doubt, that if I ever built one of those it would certainly end up killing me.

 

Not because it might be "too much wagon", but because I would HAVE to find out if it was enough.

 

95 in the quarter?  Well, maybe with a little more boost it might hit 100..........

 

I wonder what I could do with a Yamaha 125 engine in a La-Z-Boy recliner??

 

 

 

 

Some people REALLY do not have enough to do . . .