A few events show up on our calendar this Saturday.

-- The monthly SGV PCA parking lot cars and coffee gethering in the City of Industry. This is at the Krispy Kreme at Azusa Ave and the 60 Freeway starting at 8am. We are done in time for you to get home and get a few honeydo's taken care of and not use up a lot of the day.

-- The Irvine Cars & Coffee event at the Ford/Mazda Design Center has Porsche as the featured marque this week. There will be several rarely seen examples, including several original Carrrera 4-cam 356 cars, a 904, a 906, plus lots of others. Maybe a few 928's will be there too. Location is off Alton Parkway just west of the 5 freeway. Lot is very full before 6:30, so plan to get there way early if you want to park on the show lot.

-- Following the Irvine C&C, the Dana Point Concourse takes up the rest of the day. I don't have all the details on this event, just saw it mentioned as a follow-on to the Irvine event.

 

Don't forget the 6:00 a.m. (all your S.O.'s can really not complain about this one!) cars & coffee at the LaCanada Verdugo 8 theater at the intersection of 2 and 210. You could go there, Bob, and still make the Krispy Kreme in plenty of time.

I plan to be there with a 968 and a Cayman S in tow. I was also going to see if Doug (red '84 5 speed) can make it - his house is even closer to this one than mine and yours. Three 928's is better than one...

 

I am out of town this weekend and next but am jonesing for a 928-related GTG- Let me see if I can get a hall pass for a clinic some time in August!

 

Chris--

The leaning right now is towards the Irvine C&C. I have an extended duty list here this weekend so won't do the Dana Point event. So go down early (~~5am leave), have breakfast while the lot fills, rollerblade my way through the show with a video cam, go to emergency room for broken bones, then home before 11am.

I will make it to the La Canada C&C sometime before the end of summer. I have a problem similar to yours-- too much travel gets in the way of the fun. Remember when we were young, and dreamed of having a career that included lots of travel? There's a very thin line between dreams and nightmares.

 

A good weekend in SoCal for owning a Porsche

 

Just a follow-up note on the Saturday morning Irvine C&C.

Rolf, larry and I left Glendale on time at 5AM, arrived in Irvine at 5:45. Larry took the lead into the parking area, and was rewarded with a spot in the featured viewing area. First good example of each model/type/etc was allowed into that area. Somehow the air-cooled guys managed to have each model/each year represented, but our three different years of 928S4 were summed up in Larry's example. It's water-cooled discrimination I tell ya! Only one 944 and no 968's in that lot.

Lots of great Porsche cars from all decades. The 356's were out in force, with a slew of excellent cars on display. Also a pretty interesting scattering of replicas: A few speedsters, a very nice 356 cab, and a couple 550 spiders. I was surprised to see that the spider replicas had Subaru boxer-4 engines with carburetor mated to early VW gearboxes. Seems like the whole WRX turbo front-drive unit would be a nice fit back there, with 200+ reliable ponies and a six-speed.

The only 928's there were ours, but they were swans in a flock of ducks and geese. JMHO.


It was a great way to start a Saturday. A quick but comfortable drive before traffic got serious, followed by a great display of wonderful cars, all spent with good friends and Porsche family members.

 

No question in my mind, this is the biggest crowd I have ever experienced at C&C in Irvine. It was fun hanging with Rolf and Dr. Bob, and later we had breakfast

 

Glad to hear of some SoCal 928 activities. That's where I'm originally from and expect to end up there when my Michigan years are over. I've been itching to attend one of the many car enthusiast related activities over there whenever I visit my family in the Pasadena - Arcadia area. I'm just going to have to get up earlier than I usually do when I'm on vacation. Hope to see at least one of your 928s whenever I make it. Let me introduce mine - it will definitely come with me whenever I move back.

 

A good time was had by all--I like the swans comparison

 

Wow. That is a much better turnout than the 6 or so cars the time I went to that gathering.

The Verdugo thing was fun, and had around 75 cars, but very few Porsches (and one lonely, brown '79 928). There was a wicked cool pre-war Bentley race car though. I did meet a guy who has a currently not running '82 or '83 who picked my brain for a while. Hopefully we can get him going again if he follows up...

 

Chris--

We went down to Irvine for the bigger show. We bypassed the City of Industry PCA donut fest this month, the one I think you are referring to with the six cars jab.

The Irvine show always fills the main show lot (200+ cars), and this time filled two overflow lots that we saw. Cars were being turned away by 7:30am. The front lot and the first couple rows (100+) were pretty much filled with Porsche cars. the rest with other stuff. Not too often do you get to see a Borgward Isabella in running condition, a cadre of Citroens, several Healey A100R's, a couple nice 3000 MkIII and MkIV's, stuff like that. Oh, and there was the usual group of checkbook cars there too, F's and L's, plus some more exotic dealer offerings were trailered/flatbedded in for the show too. The pictures I took are just a tiny fraction of the stuff on display. Sad to say that a lot full of F360-430's isn't worth a picture, but this is soCal where everyone drives that stuff.

 

Zrated--

Let us know when you are in the neighborhood visiting. If there's something going on and I'm home, I can find a seat for you. A month or so ago the Ferrari club took over Old Pasadena and put on a street show. Big LA concour event at the Rose Bowl the week before. Drive a little for other stuff, always fun. Never a shortage of events to attend, just short on time to dedicate to them.

 

You sure post a lot.

 

Thanks doc. I'll be sure to do that. It's always great to meet up with others who appreciate 928s.

 

Is this some kind of cruel hoax???