The world famous Cars & Coffee event that was recently shut down in my neighborhood (SoCal) has temporarily re-located to one of the huge shopping districts close by.
Met up early this morning with my good buddy, Rene (SOC Dutch) to check it out. Took just a few pics…(click on pics to enlarge….I mean embiggen) 
Oh, nothing! Just another one of those Porsche 918 Spyders from around the neighborhood...
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Jim,
Where was this? Will they do it every week until a permanent location is found?
AWESOME !!!
Keep the pics coming !!
Glad they found a spot. We had a cold (in the 30s) start to ours yesterday, but I got some good pics before the camera battery died.
How many of you have a similar periodic gathering in your area and how many of you attend? Ours is small (~100 cars) but Charleston is not a big city and we hold it every week. The larger ones appear to be monthly.
Great pic's Big Jim and Lane. Here in NVA we have two great early morning C&C's one on Saturday and one on Sunday. Fellow SOC'er Syl M. and I usually go but with yesterday and todays temps at 10+- degrees I was whimpy and Syl has put his car in hibernation.
C&C Winnetka Illinois with my better half.
Marty, there is a car in the pic? Tell Sandy I didn't notice!
Lane - The Brown Porsche in your pics looks exactly like the '76 912E I used to own many years ago, maybe it ended up in your neighborhood? Beautiful car and I am amazed what those are priced at now! Jim and I had fun at our Cars & Coffee event but had to hightail it home in a couple of hours to avoid a pending rainstorm. Thanks for sharing your photos!
We have a "Cars and Coffee Palm Beach" on an early/mid month Sunday every month. Next one is Jan 18th. It is packed so you have to show up very early for parking place or get turned away (it happened to me in Dec). I'm planning to go next Sunday and will try to get some pictures.
We have a "Cars and Coffee Palm Beach" on an early/mid month Sunday every month. Next one is Jan 18th. It is packed so you have to show up very early for parking place or get turned away (it happened to me in Dec). I'm planning to go next Sunday and will try to get some pictures.
That's why I like our small event. We gather between 0800 and 1100 and its a very relaxed, informal thing with no need for traffic control. After being temporarily displaced by a complaining women's store (since closed) we were asked to return by the owners of the shopping center. It seems that everyone else, particularly the nearby coffee and bagel shops, wanted us back.
Funny story about the store that complained: They were a women's store that catered to, ahem, large customers and even though we were starting to clear out by the time they opened (1000 back then) they bitched about us taking too many of the nearby parking places. One C&C attendee noted that their customers could use the exercise. The folks that patronize the triathlon store that occupies the space now seem to have no such complaints.
The San Francisco Bay area has a few such events - one is a (small - 20-25 car) gathering on the first Sunday of each month in Portola Valley - used to be called EuroSunday - now the 'leader' of the event is a Spyder replica owner/artist - Konditorei / Ladera Shopping Center / 3130 Alpine Rd / Portola Valley, CA 94028 8:30-11:00 am 'First Sundays'
Seems to be Porsche dominated!
Here is a photo of me and Musbjim from last week's meet.
Its Speedster note time. Jim, the C&C is no longer at the Irvine Ford parking lot 6-8 AM? If not, where is the locale & times of yesterdays meet?
This particular C&C has moved temporarily to the western-most parking lot (close to Panini Cafe) at the District in Tustin located at corner of Jamboree & Barranca. Every Saturday rain or shine. Since this is in a HUGE parking area, no need to be there at O'dark thirty. 07:00-09:00 works fine.
The old C&C would typically draw 400-450 cars every weekend, thats why they would like a large venue for a permanent location. Not to worry, there still are lots of other car meets every single day of the week year-round here in SoCal.
http://socalcarculture.com/events.html
Thanx Jim, next Saturday looks like 75° and sunny. Good day for a stop by and check it out. Look at some of the other awesome Speedsters.
"Seems to be Porsche dominated!"
Fig you're talking about my pics that's only because those are the pictures I posted for this crowd. I imagine Musbjim would say the same thing. We have a lot of classic as well as recent Amurrican iron, some Brits, some Italian, some tuners, etc.
I am envious of the selection (and the weather) for the Socal event. If I ever get out there for business again that overlaps a weekend I really need to go see it.
Where did "Fig" come from? Should be "If". Sheesh, who typed that mess? Oh...
Here was ours in Scottsdale. Few of us supporters of the new James Dean storyline movie coming out in 2015 called Lucky Bastards...
1 of 1 Porsche Voodoo Blue 
I'll take it!
This particular C&C has moved temporarily to the western-most parking lot (close to Panini Cafe) at the District in Tustin located at corner of Jamboree & Barranca. Every Saturday rain or shine. Since this is in a HUGE parking area, no need to be there at O'dark thirty. 07:00-09:00 works fine.
The old C&C would typically draw 400-450 cars every weekend, thats why they would like a large venue for a permanent location. Not to worry, there still are lots of other car meets every single day of the week year-round here in SoCal.
http://socalcarculture.com/events.html
