Werks Reunion 2015

[Nine17]

Since nobody else has posted, a few images from the Werks Reunion (I didn't want to take over the Gatherings section with nothing but my own lame snap-shots). I'm not big into lawn shows, but the door prizes were so tempting that I bit. I was just bumping into our own Haasman when his name was announced over the P.A. as the winner of a certificate good for a set of Michelin tires! Overall folks known here were pretty underwhelmed. The Ingram cars were superb, but not much else that you wouldn't see at a PCA zone concours. Not much in the way of racing cars; Herr Bischoff fired-up the 917K recently restored by PMNA and invited the crowd to RR-V before taking the car to Laguna by 10:30. I was particularly cheesed that the promised "German bier-garten" featuring Spaten, St. Pauli, and Becks didn't materialize, instead there was a typical country club cash-bar. The organizational efforts seemed to be focused on travel, lodging, and custom embroidery for folks from PCA National. I wound up setting-up my Le Mans garage chair and taking a nap...

-- David

[Nine17]

A lucky winner!

[72targa]

Nice! Thanks for posting!!

[Harvey Weidman]

Please post more if you have any. Your photos aren't lame....
I brought a camera but was too busy to take any photos.
There were some stars there.... more than a PCA club show.
Esp. the 600+ cars in the corral....
H

[Nine17]

It eventually became clear that if I want to go to Le Mans next year, I'll be paying my own way. Fortunately, earlier in the week I had met ex-David Piper mechanic John Amette, now of Ferrari Classiche. He told me that Ferrari had organized (with the help of a 40-year client who owned the property) a pop-up dealership at the little gas station in Carmel Highlands. The Porsche Zentrum at Quail Lodge was very nice (I enjoyed the lunch and a couple of test-drives on Thursday), but the Ferrari pop-up blows-away anything that had been done in Monterey up until now -- the best aspect being that it wasn't hidden away from the general public driving along Highway 1. John told me that there was to be a different historic racing car on display each day -- and Friday featured my all-time favorite: the 1965 Le Mans-winning NART 250 LM of Jochen Rindt and Masten Gregory (and maybe Ed Hugus, as legend has it). The IMS Museum has spent some effort getting it running again, and it was simply spectacular sitting on its plinth in front of the new Ferraris, the boutique, and the Veuve Cliquot garden. A highlight of the weekend.

-- David

[Jim Breazeale]

I thought it was a bit better than last year. Still needs some tweaking, though. Any time you get 650 Porsches together on one place, even if just parked on a golf course, it is something special. It appeared to be well organized and things like entrance and exit flowed well.
I pulled into the participant lane and when I got to the volunteer that was directing people to the the corral lane or the concours lane. He asked me if I was "concours?". He, then started laughing uncontrollably!

Ciao

Jim

[G50911]

nice pics jim! thanks for sharing

[Jim Breazeale]

nice pics jim! thanks for sharing

Hi Troy

The pictures were posted by David (Nine17). I have neither the talent or equipment do do what he does.

Regards

Jim

[LongRanger]

Thanks for those pics, Dave

I couldn't goattend this year, but I'd seen the list of entrants and gotwas a bit disappointed; didn't see that many Longhoods registered --- + only 2 Carreras. (Any pics, BtW? One was an M471) With all the cars here in CA, it's too bad more of us didn't go

Lotsta see, looks like. The problem w/ that many cars is having to prowl around a lotta real estate to see stuff . . . like that Speedster w/ the Rudges. I like talking to people, too. Some of the Characters + Stories are priceless

And I recognize that Ferrari stand; last year, we stayed at a place that I found, on Airbnb . . . just up the hill from there

Thanks, again for showing/sharing

PS I like your pics

[Nine17]

I have neither the talent or equipment do do what he does.

Kind of you to say, Jim, but I really do just wander around between cigars and naps looking at cars. As for my equipment, you handled it the other day at Canepa's -- my Fujifilm X-T10 camera body is priced at less than a tenth of what Goriup's Leicas cost him -- and pros tell me that the Fujinon 23mm f-1.4 is every bit the equal of a Zeiss Summicron at a similar price fraction. The tilting LCD viewfinder lets me "see" my surroundings like old school street photographers could using a Rolleiflex. The small size and easy handling make it easy to be creative when a pretty girl in a pink dress and a gray-over-red 356B happen to come into my view all at once...

-- David