Monterey Historics 8/20 - Big ass post!

[sameerrao]

Captains Log dated 8/20 ... today is the day that Starship Enterprise (Pontiac Sunfire actually) is once again headed to Planet Monterey to see some beasts tear up the track again. It was at Laguna Seca - possibly the coolest track in US along with the old Watkins Glen circuit.

Chaparral and Alfa Romeo were the featured marques and a full contigent of cars were present

Needless to say I had a lot of fun seeing these magnificent cars in their repose and tearing around the track 8)

Parking Lot and approach shots
Morgan, SL65, 4Porte, Viper, Elise, Maseratis, Porsche 911 Carrera RS


427 Cobra, NSX with nice wheels, Dino, E Type, Lotus Europa, Elan Mk 2


Zzzzzzzzs ... the green 240 is supposed have the base engine from a Skyline GTR acc to the owner


Alfas
P3 Biposto- Absolutely gorgeous car - there is not a line you can change to make it look better


P3 Monoposto - the kind that Varzi and Nuvolari raced


2300


2600 I believe


1750


The coolest temp gauge!


Chaparrals - featured marque today - all the cars were there - the wing car, the vacuum car and the rest



Holy smokestacks


Bugattis



Ferraris
250 TdF


TR


SWB - brilliant paint color it was later driven by Champcar ace Bobby Rahal to victory in its class

Another SWB

And another


275 GTC



250 LM


GTO - tail shot only - more on the race track


Another GTO - different from the one I saw yesterday


Don't know what this is


Others
Aston DBR1

Another cool Aston - I forgot which one


Lola


The Maestro Stirling Moss and "722"


Legends - Phil Hill, Vic Elford - they were there to drive the Chaparrals


Talbot Lago - early 50s GP car


Maserati


300S?


Mercedes 300 SLR


Race Shots
Old Yeller


Cunningham


Chaparral


Group shots



Misc








Bobby Rahal on the extreme left and another pic of him in action


Stirling Moss taking the 722 out for a drive - recognize the passenger


Maserati Birdcage

[TT]

Amazing cars again! Another silver GTO

[Skaala]

great pics... never seen a grey GTO before,..

[Carrera_GTcrazy]

Beautiful pictures! How i wish i could have made it out there this year, had a great time last year, but sadly this year something came up! Maybe next year! Looks like i missed a good one

[Wutputt]

Gorgeous vintage cars

And it's great to see those cars driving through Corkscrew! Thanks for the pics.

[ARMAN]

:shock: pice of history came at one place, thanx great pics 4 panteras pic

[sameerrao]

You are welcome guys. I was not sure how many people would be interested in Historic cars (other than Ferrari of course). Good to see many others share my passion for the golden oldies!

I took a bunch of pics at the Pebble Beach Concours as well ... I will try and post them up this week if I get some free time!

[budagboy2]

Originally Posted by TT Amazing cars again! Another silver GTO

pretty sure its a fake, there was another silver gto w/o any shields like this one that was a fake. the one that i know is a fake was built in england, so im thinking whoever built it, built two of them...aswome pics ...ill try to get mine up soon

[sameerrao]

So Mike ... you were there again this year ... we must have nudged shoulders when taking pics

The crowd at Pebble Beach were pretty unthinking - I mean you are in plain sight getting ready to take a pic when some man or woman wanders thru the middle of the scene and blocks off part of your shot. And no "I am sorry .. let me get out of your way"

My patience was really tested!

It was better at the Concorso and at Laguna Seca

[novass]

Originally Posted by sameerrao Don't know what this is

That is a 1956 Ferrari 500 MDTR #0622 I know this because it is one of our cars. We took that and the Porsche 906 #37 to the Historics. We also had two Cisitalias at Pebble, a convertible and a hardtop, a 330 LMB (gorgeous car!!) and we had a few others at auctions etc. We also brought a Porsche 959 back with us!!!! Fuck me that thing is fast!

I meant to make a post to see if anyone was going before I left but I ran out of time. I spent most of the time in The Racer's Shop vendor booth at both the Monterey Historics and the Concourso Italiano. All in all, a damn fun weekend.

Ill post my pics as soon as I get settled and unpacked. But I am glad you went, I wish I would have known ahead of time ops:

[sameerrao]

Damn! I put a post up on Wed/Thu asking if anyone is going - I guess you must have missed it - we could have had a mini-JW get-together