While one will occasionally run into a Pinto at a classic car and hot rod show, or a Gremlin at a drag strip, these occurrences are relatively sparse. Convention is often the guiding rule over exception at your average judged car show. The first annual Concours d' LeMons set out to change all that. While the rest of the Monterey Peninsula sipped on old fashioneds and attempted … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2009
Slant 6 Gathering
Leaning Tower of Power fans should mark their calendars for the upcoming Slant 6 Gathering on September 27th 2009 in Redwood City, California. This annual social event is the place for an old slant sixer to learn new tricks, a new slant sixer to find new pals, and the stalwart few who are hardy enough to want to race a slant six to find out how. Since we know you've been … [Read more...]
Victoire de Citrons!
Michael Harrell owns two out of an estimated two thousand KV Mini 1 automobiles ever made. He occasionally drives this one to work. With those facts in mind it seems only fitting that his 1980 KV Mini 1 took top Worst of Show honors at the first annual Concours d'LeMons show in Monterey, California. The KV company manufactured scooters and other motor contraptions like the … [Read more...]
Datstun 710 Reliability Run
Arriving is good, but driving there is better. Just ask Jose Mendez, who drove this bitchin' 1975 Datsun 710 ninety miles each way from Modesto to hit a gathering of imports in Santa Clara. Jose says that besides the wheel and tire combination and a lowering treatment, the Datsun is as stock as it was when he found it wearing its original wheels and hubcaps. The SSR MKII hoops … [Read more...]
Stuttgart Comes to Steinbeck Country
At the risk of sounding somewhat NorCal-provincial, the Monterey Historics are the one can't-miss automotive event of the year. And within that cornucopia of delicious machines from bygone days, the IMSA GT-class race that closes out Sunday features machines (Dekon Monzas, Porsche 935s, Ferrari 512BB LMs) the children of the '70s and '80s grew up with. What's more, this year's … [Read more...]