As many of you will know, California has been battered by a trio of Pacific storms for the last couple of days, Cars and Coffee was therefore always in doubt.

At 6:30 this morning it was not actually raining here, so I decided to make my way to the meeting place to see if anyone else had actually made it.

Amazingly a few people made it.


This was the scene as I arrived - normally at 7AM this is busy with hypercars, hotrods and people !



Driving around to the Corral, I parked up and found that there was a small, but certainly hard-core group admiring the cars and the tenacity of those that where here....



obviously dressing for the occasions was necessary





Rare in the US S5




















Late arrival








So that was it - not really enough for a full Cars and Coffee post, but really the meeting was a lot of fun, I was able to meet the 'organizers' and chat with them and owners of all of the cars, for once the pressure to get a decent level of event coverage was 'off' . There are more shots in the archive - as usual cncpics.com, but that is a very good taster of the 'event' this morning.

As I drove home I figured that it would be nice to do a retrospective look back on 2007 - something that I was thinking of doing regardless of the weather, once more Don jumped to my rescue and cam up with 'Don's Pics of the Litter - Archives.'

So - you have Don's selection down to June and then the real old stuff are a few of my personal favourite cars and photographs to round it all off.

Enjoy !

Max......

December 22nd





December 8th






December 1st








November 24th









November 3rd







July 21st














June 9th - Laborghini Day



and a BMW steals the show !








May 5th - Ferrari Day !




Show-Stealing AMG Mercedes


April 2007

F1 Ferrari



E-Types



Alfa





Hemisphere (my current wallpaper)


I just loved this car, only saw it the one - April 28th 2007



Possibly the second most dangerous device shown at C&C



Mercedes on 'bags'



The most dangerous and the loudest car of evAr




March 2007

Gold Escort Cosworth -



Stunning Porsche



McLaren M8B



Low rider




Hopefully the weather will be back to normal next week, but for now......

dunt(tm) forget to tune in next week, same time, same place.

Photo selection by Don Suiter - ErEc, Imaging - Colorado
Full Image Archive - http://cncpics.com

 

Nice to see some of the folks who braved the weather. Very few of those cars there looked wet. Lot's of behind the scenes detailing I'm guessing. Great retrospective too!

 

As you can see I like the Sprites and those wonderful old cars I can not afford. And I really like chrome and lime green.

 

Holy crap, I made the retrospective!! I am slightly embarrased with myself but the pic is excellent-luckily there's 30 lbs less of me since then-hopefully about 20 more off by the time I make it back to CnC in May. BTW I titled that photo " Lot Lizard" as I look like I'm out to sell and " get you in a car today"!