Baker's Cruise

Very cool pictures.  I like the yellow Corvair and the v-twin exo-skeleton.

One of my pet peeves is calling a car show a cruise. A driving event is a cruise. Totally not placing blame on Michael here, he didn't name it.

Parking in a lot, looking at cars, and chatting is a car show.

@DannyP, I share your pet peeve.

I liked the subtle flames on the 3rd from the last picture.

Very cool. I missed that detail, I'm looking at this on my phone.

That Corvair is pretty nice. Maybe not the color though.

This was parked next door to the shop yesterday. I've seen it running around town. This guy likes to run.

Gotta love the no B pillar look.

@Michael McKelvey posted:

It officially starts at 2:00 pm but I discovered that some people arrive as early as 9:00 am to get a good spot.

How sensible. Most of our C&C or other shows start at 9:00, which means I’d have to be on the road at 7:30-8:00. I don’t do mornings. Neither does Milo. Especially for car shows. It’s a pretty rare day I’m motivated enough to make one.

Luckily, the two big VW shows are 2:00-6:00.

The C&C I am going to next Saturday is from 7:30 to 9:00.  It is at a restaurant that opens at 9:00 so they want us out of their parking lot by then.  Luckily they are pretty close to me so I can get up at 6:30 and get there close to 7:30.  That is still about 2 hours earlier than I usually get up.

"The cars are mostly American cars from the 1930s on. There was one Porsche, a newish Cayman."

No offense but why take a "newish" Cayman to a car show unless you just park it over there because that's just how you got there.

The newish Cayman with a big wing on the back was parked in front of a nice E-Type Jag.

@WNGD posted:

"The cars are mostly American cars from the 1930s on. There was one Porsche, a newish Cayman."

No offense but why take a "newish" Cayman to a car show unless you just park it over there because that's just how you got there.

So many of the car shows I go to these days include new cars.  It was something that took me a long time to get used to, and it still rankles me a little.

Parking a brand new car that you did nothing but buy or lease, beside an older car that someone restored over a number of years, and has some historic value, etc. doesn't sit right with me.

Well, even though he brought his new car there, he and his wife were the most enthusiastic viewers of my Speedster.

@Michael McKelvey posted:

Well, even though he brought his new car there, he and his wife were the most enthusiastic viewers of my Speedster.

Well at least they have good taste!

@WNGD posted:

No offense but why take a "newish" Cayman to a car show unless you just park it over there because that's just how you got there.

I like it. Where else am I going to see new Lotuses, Lambos, McLarens, etc? Now, if it was a Chevy Bolt, you might have a point. But I rather enjoy seeing a Cayman GT-4 close up away from the prying eyes of a Porsche salesman.

FWIW, the original Concours d’Elegance were the period’s equivalent of the Paris Auto Show.

Fair enough, to each his own. I wouldn't have even paused at it with all the other eye candy about.

I found this deep down a Nardi rabbit hole the other day.


Nardi-Danese BMW 750 hillclimb car.

Kinda reminds me of a C&C at a local Coffee Cafe that is advertised on their website as an open C&C, but since it is also included in the "Events" page of the Northeast PCA, the Porsche Purists, let's call them the PPs, all think it is supposed to be a Porsche Only event.  I just pull in, park, don't bat an eye, get out and start walking around.  None of the PPs give me a hard time, some even come over with intelligent questions.  And, as always, the lady spectators all love Pearl.  Guys, not quite so much.  Last week, some lady pulled in with a quite new, "Miami Blue" Porsche 718 and saw me next to Pearl.  She said that she should have parked next to Pearl because she thought they complemented each other.  🤔

I thought it was really interesting last month when the car that got the most attention, especially when he crank-started it, was a 1914 Dayton four passenger touring car.  Everyone gave him a round of applause as he putt-putted out of the parking lot.

Next time we need a pic or 2 of YOUR car, Michael- this is a Speedster owners forum after all!

@Gordon Nichols posted:

let's call them the PPs…

I love going to mixed shows, even though the show organizers really don't know what to do with my car and I end up in "Special Interest".  That's like that one kitchen drawer you always have that holds all of the things that you don't know where they should go.  

I did manage to convince the organizing ladies at a "Ty-Rods" Hot Rod show (In Vernon, CT, @edsnova!) that I should be part of a "Euro-Rods" group as a hot-rodded Porsche.   I think that my nerf bars sold it.  So they made up a sign for the windshield and Bob's your Uncle!  There I was!  Had my own "Euro-Rod" group with just ME in it!

🎶 Sign, sign
Everywhere a sign
Blockin' out the scenery
Breakin' my mind
Do this, don't do that
Can't you read the sign?🎶

Well, it looks like I should have put this under the Events topic. I thought Events initial postings were for future activities you all might participate in, like Carlisle, Tour de Smo', and West Coast Cruise.

I didn't think Events was for a report on a past event a single person participated in.

I love the variety of the come-one, come-all cars & coffee shows. On Saturday I stopped to chat with the owner of a newish Polaris something. These are like the most radical sandrails you might build except they're factory with Ecotek engines. Absolute Mad Max extras. Dude had (I think) a Nevada plate on it, tiny like for a motor cycle. I had to ask.

He says MD hasn't got around to classifying these for street use yet. So, an LLC in another state and Bob's your uncle. He referenced a website that gets it done.

This is information I would not have learned in an all-classic environment.

Right behind my car on this day was a McLaren F1. I did not mind seeing that either.

There's always a ton of late model Porsches here.

I love that they share the lot with stuff like

and

As I was making my last loop a couple rolled in with an Amphicar.

They backed in between two pretty ordinary (to my eyes) monster trucks. Whose owners absolutely love them, I am sure.

This boy was absolutely gaga for the white Corvette.

Look at this picture:

Pre-war Luxo-something next to a legit '50s rod across from an 80s turbo Buick which is two cars up from a Lamborghini which is parked next to a stanced Japanese pickup truck. . . .

It's absolute chaos, I tell you. As it should be.

The blue car ended up surrounded by late model Corvettes that morning.

People still found it.

@edsnova

You need to display one of these:

Or maybe this version:

I prefer the top one for its subtlety. I’ve had a couple of PPs LOL when they realized…

Since there will be a lot of PCA guys at Saturday's C&C I decided I might want to apply one of these stickers so I dug mine out. They aren't like either of the above.

They have the perimeter lettering of the top one and the clown of the lower one. But, instead of the shield of the lower one, they have the front of a Speedster.

One of the inmates prototyped a few different versions a while ago. I grabbed the top version off of that thread and sent it to Sticker Mule when they had a 25/$10 or something like that special.

@Michael McKelvey I know that sticker that you have.

In fact, I have about a dozen variations on the theme that different people contributed to this site a few years back when we were excited about this.  

I offered what I did to Ed for his Spyder and didn't think having one showing a Speedster but affixed to a Spyder was as cool.  

My personal favorite was the one from Mitch (I think), but those from Gandalf ( @Carlos G ) were pretty good and more subtle, too.

I think I got a few vinyl ones from Mitch Toll ( @Sacto Mitch ) that were a higher quality than anything I could print here.  It's interesting to see the reaction when some of the PPs see it - Either they laugh and show their friends or they get this serious, consternation look and walk away.

At this point, even though I have them, I don't really like the clown stickers. I would rather have some with the bird and shield.

Ideally, they would be easy to put on and remove so I wouldn't have t display them all the time.

@Michael McKelvey posted:

At this point, even though I have them, I don't really like the clown stickers. I would rather have some with the bird and shield.

Ideally, they would be easy to put on and remove so I wouldn't have t display them all the time.

Hit up Sticker Mule. I’m pretty sure you either get a really good deal, or you get an offer every week or so, once they get your email. Cut and paste the .jpg of your choice to their site and Bob’s yer uncle.

Getting a few is the only way to R&R AFAIK. They’re made out of the same stretchy vinyl they use for wraps and the two I’ve removed got stretched out quite a bit. (One tore). I don’t think you’d be able to reuse them. I’d send you a few but I’ve given most of mine away.

You know, Michael - Some of the Porsche bunch like to feel that they are a serious lot.  Some of them are (often to the extreme) and others see the cars as rolling art, or a treat to their driving senses or maybe just a fun investment and don't take themselves too seriously.  I never overtly give them a hard time about their attitude unless they become obnoxious or something and for that I have had exactly three people over the decades that truly felt that way, and then I found that everyone else avoids them, too!

I just go to the C&C events to have a good (read that cheap) time and BS with new and old friends and if the PPs are getting too serious, I introduce them to "Lightning Pearl":