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Cars & Coffee – Saturday 04/28/2012
Apr 28th
Ferrari F430 (image © 2012 Victor Varela)
The car count was a bit down from last week’s event. Despite this, there were many of the regulars who attended and filled up the parking lot with many of the cars people just love to come and watch,
I covered the parking area and spent more time this Saturday talking with owners and admiring the cars. Although I didn’t take many static images of the cars, I felt I enjoyed myself more just by looking at the cars instead of trying to find and capture profiles and angles of the tightly parked cars.
You can view the gallery of images from this Saturday’s gathering at my Flickr.
Vic
Cars & Coffee – Irvine, Is the weekly Saturday morning gathering in Irvine, California where hundreds of proud drivers congregate to kick tires and have a cup of coffee. There is something for everyone to enjoy; classics, exotics, concepts, hot rods, motorcycles and motor-sport. And it’s all free, minus the coffee of course.
Popularity: 10% [?]
Cars & Coffee – Saturday 04/20/2012
Apr 21st
Jaguar Lightweight E-Type. (image © 2012 Victor Varela)
My nephew, Andrew and I, arrived a bit earlier than usual this morning, hoping to catch a few more cars arriving to the day’s Cars & Coffee event in Irvine. We found a huge crowd and countless cars at today’s gathering that we were almost lost on what we should capture first. It wasn’t long before my attention was captured by a stunning British Racing Green Jaguar Lightweight E-Type. I spent a fair amount of time gawking at it’s beautiful shape and absorbing all the detail of this classic race car. It is cars like this one that compels me to make the weekly drive down to the OC.
After I pulled myself away from the gorgeous green cat, I proceeded to walk the parking lot until another race car caught my attention. This time it was a Rosso Corsa Formula One Ferrari F-2001. The F1 car was surrounded by onlookers and photographers trying to get a look and a picture of this Italian racer without someone’s head, arm or camera. I was able to get a couple of images of the Ferrari – some of which I share in my Flickr set.
We stayed longer than usual as there were just too many cars to look at and photograph. I ended my morning visit with some last shots of the F1 Ferrari as it was being loaded into it’s transporter.
It was great to see all the cars that turned up this week. The F1 Ferrari was cool to see at Cars & Coffee, but the Jaguar was the star of this weeks gathering.
You can view the gallery of images from this Saturday’s gathering at my Flickr.
Vic
Cars & Coffee – Irvine, Is the weekly Saturday morning gathering in Irvine, California where hundreds of proud drivers congregate to kick tires and have a cup of coffee. There is something for everyone to enjoy; classics, exotics, concepts, hot rods, motorcycles and motor-sport. And it’s all free, minus the coffee of course.
Popularity: 11% [?]
2011 Goodwood Festival of Speed
Jul 21st
Rodeo Drive Concours.
Jun 20th
I spent my Father’s Day morning in Beverly Hills (with my wife, Maria, her sister Gabi, B-I-L Adrian and my nieces, Cece & Carina) to take in the Rodeo Drive Concours d’ Elegance.
This years event celebrated “The Art of Italian Motoring” and featured more than 125 vintage Italian cars on display. FIAT was the honored marque and had various vintage cars on display, including the new “Cinquecento” 500. Also on display were several Lamborghinis, Alfa Romeos, Masaratis, Lancias & Ferraris. The Scuderia featured their new GT sports car, the FF (an acronym for Ferrari Four – four seats and four-wheel drive) model. Bugatti was represented by their Bijan edition Veyron. And the all new McLaren drew huge crowds with their stunning MP4-12C.
A great event that I will certainly attend in 2012.
You can view the images I captured here: flickr
Vic
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THE TEAM: A Season With McLaren – Good-bye To All That.
May 24th
(1993) Parts 13 & 14 of 14
The Team: A Season With McLaren is a TV series produced by John Gau Productions for the BBC during the 1993 Formula One season. The series followed the team and regular drivers Ayrton Senna and Michael Andretti, as well as test driver Mika Häkkinen, giving a behind the scenes insight to the McLaren team.
Part 13- Good-bye To All That
Part 14 – Good-bye To All That
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THE TEAM: A Season With McLaren – The Rules Of The Game.
May 10th
(1993) Parts 11 & 12 of 14
The Team: A Season With McLaren is a TV series produced by John Gau Productions for the BBC during the 1993 Formula One season. The series followed the team and regular drivers Ayrton Senna and Michael Andretti, as well as test driver Mika Häkkinen, giving a behind the scenes insight to the McLaren team.
Part 11- The Rules Of The Game
Part 12 – The Rules Of The Game
[source: YouTube - Muis60]
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Ralph Lauren Classic Car Collection Exhibition in Paris
May 6th
Ralph Lauren reveals his classic car collection in Europe for the very first time and is transporting his most exquisite car collection to the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris for a special exhibit called “The Art of the Automobile: Masterpieces from the Ralph Lauren Collection”.
The exhibition opens from the 28th of April, where a selection of Ralph Lauren’s most prestigious sports cars from the 1930s to the present day is on show for the first time in Europe at Paris’ Musée des Arts Décoratifs. 17 outstanding cars, chosen by the curator Rodolphe Rapetti, outline the main phases of European automobile history.
Stylish not only in clothing but also in automobiles, world renowned designer Ralph Lauren has established himself as one of the world’s major car collectors. His impressive collection includes a 1938 Bugatti, a 1958 Ferrari Testa Rossa and a 2010 Lamborghini Murcielago; making Ralph Lauren’s range of cars ‘a museum of automotive history, an archive of performance machines that represent the finest achievements in motorsport’.
With this collection, Ralph Lauren shows that the automobile is a major art form created by the industry’s biggest names: Bugatti, Alfa Romeo, Bentley, Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar, Porsche and of course, Ferrari, the high point of this unique collection.
The exhibition will be the first time his collection will be shown in Europe; and with the distance the cars were required to travel, the transportation and instillation of cars was planned and carefully executed to maintain high standards of care.
[source: YouTube - WorldCarFans]
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