Took off Friday afternoon to drive to Paso Robles wine country to attend the '17 annual edition of the Southern California / Northern Cal. 356 Clubs meeting. After a few miles of the insane, congested madness of 'El Camino Real' , aka Highway 101, I remembered Jim Breazeale's urging a few years ago and telling of his encountering a wild boar at triple digit speed in his beloved 356, that the most enjoyable way to get there from the SF bay area is to avoid 101 as much as you can, and take state hghway 25 from about San Juan Bautista to its very end near King city. Thank you so much for the pointer Jim, because it really worked and went a long way to make this a very special and enjoyable trip..........it's simply amazing how taking a beautiful 'driver's' road and getting away from the madness on major freeways can improve one's outlook. I would earnestly urge anyone coming to Cambria or thereabouts from the North to take this jewel of a route and see how truly pleasurable driving in central California can really be.
Being an odd year, it was the Southern Cal.'s 356 Club's turn ( the Northern 356 Club is in charge of organizing and staging the event in even years ) to be the host and out-going President Jeff Trask wound up his term with a stroke of genius - to stage the multi-day event's Saturday Concours at the little known ( I had never even heard of it ) Estrella Warbird Museum located on the grounds of the Paso Robles municipal airport. It was the first nice, normal weekend with blue skies, no rain or clouds present or forecasted and warm, inviting temperatures in the mid to high 70s for the duration of the event. Simply glorious - the compact, colorful 356s casually placed among the Korean war / Viet Nam and later era fighter planes and military aircraft presented a fascinating, other-worldly sight to anyone with even limited enthusiasm and knowledge of what they were looking at......................simply magnificent !! Thank you Jeff, what a way to wind up your reign as Club President.
Opening the peresentation with a couple of images from the drive down on Hwy. #25, the main entrance to the Concours site, followed by a couple of initial views of the display area of both cars and planes, and Oh Yes, the silver Coupe is a real '57 4-cam Carrera.
Enjoy and thanks for looking,
JZG
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Originally Posted by John Z Goriup
