Ed Hughes

Well, like many of you in other parts of the country, we have seen a brutal dose of Winter this past week. NickyP, Niche, cgfen (& wife Maya), and myself braved the temps hovering at 38-40F early yesterday morning for a run up to Irvine C&C. We rolled in about 6:15am, in time for some of Nick's early 911 buddies, already there in full force, to bid him a "good afternoon". Javier and I were ogling what we first thought to be a pre-A 356, which turned out to be Jeff Zwart's 1948 Gmund coupe-one of the first 50 cars built by Porsche! We spent several minutes talking to Jeff-a really nice guy-about it. Funny, as cool a collection as he has, most that come into his shop walk right past this car. It was our vote as probably the coolest car there yesterday.

Ran into Eric (mcipseric) and his wife too.

But, we did see the typical array of just about everything the SoCal car culture offers up here. A few pics to enjoy....

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CaptainGSR

Bummer, I stayed home thinking no one would show up!

Nurburger

Nice pics Ed. I Saw Zwart's Gmund Coupe in Monterey 2 or three years ago; it's an incredibly simple & elegant car - just look at the wipers.

Now, about that mustang.....

Ed Hughes

I had to throw that in-the neon/LED lights up front sure were "awesome". Then, when he got out and hit the remote control hydraulics, well, it certainly was "worth a look".

cgfen

Ed, nice seeing you, Nick and Javi.
Do you know anything about the "db" car you've included in photo # 9 of your first post?

Craig

mongrelcat

What a great selection of cars, thanks for sharing

Hate to be negative at all in this thread, but seriously, WTF is this?



Nevermind, I don't want to know.

The one that kept my eye the longest...



And is there a better looking car being produced today than the R8? IMHO, no. Just perfect lines.

Also, slightly off-topic but I think you'll enjoy this Ed, I remember you posting about Palomar at least a couple times...

Ed Hughes

No, we were checking that out with some other guys-nobody knew.

We talked about that yesterday-hopefully another run in early January!

RJT

Ed ~ sometimes I really hate you!!




Never.




Thanks for posting and making me ever MORE homesick!

matt777

It would be nice to see a Gmund in person one day.

ps 38 F? That is horrible.

993C4RS

Seriously, that guy in the transformer Mustang was there last week and did the same thing.. pulled up, revved a few times, also worth mentioning- he has a fake blowoff valve sound as he was revving, then got out, stood a few feet back, and played with the remote for the hydraulics..

race911

Jeff mentioned the Gmund at Tech Tactics a few weeks ago. Probably wasn't the proper car to roll on out to Ontario in, so he brought the bookend (?) to it in the RS 4.0. (Would have pretty much been worth the whole Tech Tactics event just to have him speak.)

NickyP

Ed, thanks for posting the photos. It was a good time at Cars & Coffee yesterday; I always enjoy the drive up and seeing all the cars and some good friends. The most amazing thing about C & C in Irvine is the diversity of cars you see there throughout the year. And with about 500 cars on an average Saturday there is something for everyone. The Mustang looked liked a life size Hot Wheels car to me; not my deal, but you had to appreciate the effort and execution behind it.

Jeff's little Gmund coupe was a piece of history and I'm glad he brought it and that we could chat with him a bit. Jeff has some great toys and he's great about sharing them.

Looking forward to more visits up the coast next year! Merry Christmas to all.

Nick

Z-nomore

Ed, if you wouldn't mind more company, let me know next time you head up. I would love to go.