Baltimore, Annapolis and DC/NoVa guys -- Cars and Coffee?

I don't know a lot about this yet, but this looks cool:

"I thought this was listed here somewhere but I can't seem to find it anymore, so this is just a reminder that there's a weekly car meet at the Dunkin Donuts & Baskin Robbins in Burtonsville, MD. Sunday Mornings year-round, 8:00-11:00 AM but the earlier you can get there the better. Address appears to be 15600a Columbia Pike; basically it's at the intersection of 198 and (old) 29 in a big strip mall parking lot that includes an Amish market."

The info is copied from an American car site, but I looked it up after a conversation yesterday in a parking lot. The verbal description indicated there was a big, red barn there; likely the Burtonsville Amish Market is the one in the description above.

I'm going. Who's with me?

I got 10 bucks that says Jack Crosby shows up.

Weekly

Here are some pictures some dude took:
http://www.roncorbinphotography.com/hotrods/Burtonsville%20Custom%20Cars%20and%20Hot%20Rods%2013-June-2010/album/index.html

Nice variety and that's fun. Where's the Hoopty?

It'll be there Sunday. I haven't been to this get-together yet.
I'll have a report and some pictures afterward, though.

Look how small the 550's look next to the Vette.

That looks like the balls. I think I can make it next week. Sunday AM is perfect for me.

Well, it was a smash. I'll be going back to those gigs as often as I have free time to do so. Good bunch of people, a coffee shop right there and a whole bunch of really neat things to look at. It seems like maybe I've been focused on our little part o'the hobby for a bit too long, and I maybe forgot there were things out there like chopped '40s sleds and cab-over flatbeds. Very cool stuff.

There had to be 200 or more cars there, and I was joined by Paul Rich in his speedster and a guy with a Spyder whom I'd never met before. It had the James Dean treatment, minus the "130" and lettering. Nice guy, but I didn't get his information. It was the same 550 in the photos above.

The coolest thing that happened to me the whole day was when this guy and his kid came over to look at the car; Dad was trying to impress upon his son that he could make anything he wanted to out of his imagination and some study time.

I asked the kid's father if he had ever had a Volkswagen and let the kid climb all over the Hoopty, looking at this and that, asking questions and playing with switches. When the father said he had owned a VW Beetle back in the day, I threw him my key and told him to keep it under 100. He was stunned.

He puttered around the parking lot for a few minutes, and when they got back I gave his son my "Stay in School" speech. I was careful to emphasize that he'd have to stick with math through the boring algebra and geometry to get to the fun part -- trig -- and that if he got good at that, then he could build a car.

I think the speech was exactly what the Dad wanted his boy to take away from experience, because I got an e-mail to that effect from him yesterday, saying that "Math can be Cool," was something he had a hard time illustrating to his son -- who is struggling with it.

Pretty cool, huh?

The rest of these are pretty much just eye candy:

Dammit, that's twice today that you've made me envious. We average around 30 cars at our weekly Cars & Coffee. Kinda short of your 200.

Goin' for the hat trick, Lane.
Hopefully, some of the Chesapeake guys will join us for these in the future:

Very Cool, Cory!

Cory,

Looks/sounds like you had a good time. I've been trying to get there for a couple of years. It's my understanding the gathering is called the "Church of the Holy Donut".

Cory, looks like you had fun. Could the Spyder guy's name be Matt? If so, he has a badass Vintage with a Jake type4 in it. Very nice attention to detail on the car.

Bruce, it was a pretty good event; no planning needed, really. The parking lot starts to fill up around 0900, and if you want to be close to the middle of it they recommend getting there between 0800 and 0830. The early birds seemed to bring Thermos bottles; I'd guess the Starbucks is too far to walk at that hour. Some of those guys had Pennsylvania tags, so they must've gotten up before the chickens.

Danny, I don't really know what to make of the Spyder guy, and I never got his name.

His car was domestic, so to speak, and he was clearly an import. Couldn't figure out the accent; he had to be from somewhere on the European side of the Mediterranean, but I don't know where. He didn't give me a straight answer on who built his car. I don't think he was hiding anything, but he didn't open it up. The 928 guy speculated it was because he didn't want anybody to figure out it was a replica.

I'll see him again and get the specifics. He was nice to talk to, anyway.