Freeman Thomas has served up a great idea to keep the Saturday ritual of getting together with hundreds of car guys and gals alive and well.
From the Desk of Freeman.
As you know, next weekend will be the end to Crystal Cove. There is alot of discussion as to where it will go. I spoke with my Ford collegues, John Clinard(Ford West Coast PR Chief and owns a '65 911, the cover car from the 1965 Sports Car Graphic), Vic Borghese(runs and manages the Ford/PAG building). Together we surveyed our building and land and thought it would be suitable and are willing to offer up its use for Saturday mornings 8-11. Here's the opportunity, the outdoor parking easily holds 600+ cars, the building is an outstanding example of modern architecture and landscaping, we have an incredible Cafe on site with Starbucks coffee that is willing to be open during that time, its located right at the Spectrum so you can actually walk to the shops, we have room for trailers if some really special cars show up that aren't driven or if you want to bring out the Porsche Renntransporter with your collection of 917's and 908/3's. Ford owns the building and land so we have control. Also there are no issues with noise so if we want to have a ritual 8:30 "Gentlemen please start your engines" that would be OK. We're even OK if a competitor wants to show off a concept vehicle. As long as it supports the grassroots enthusiast and doesn't become commercial, disrespectable, unsafe or a swapmeet we're OK. We would like to build on the positive momentum of what CC has already started. We'll only open up this offer if there's enough vocal support to do it as we would need to notify our Cafe, security etc. Please put this on the S-Registry and RGRUPPE sites and any other car club you know of. We have parking in the north lot for "pedestrian" cars and trailers. We'll monitor the forums and see the response. Any questions please contact Jon Clinard at jclinard@ford.com. or Tom Shaughnessy at GT40MIRAGE@AOL.COM Our building is the North America headquarters for Jaguar, Land Rover, Aston Martin, Volvo and is where Ford's Advanced Studio(mine) is located. Check it out on Google Earth at 7905 Gateway, Irvine, Ca 92618. Its right at the 405/ I5 Y at the mouth of Laguna Canyon Road in Irvine. Really easy access. There's also the opportunity that each week a car brand or a theme(LeMans cars?) can have a corral. Please get it out there and we'll see what happens as there is talk of other locations being considered we don't want to overshadow anyone else. Wherever it ends up we'll be there to support it.
All the best,
Freeman
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