Monterey week continues to grow. Stories abound the entire weekend of traffic, trying to get to 3 events each day, etc. It's been simply impossible for us to get everywhere we've wanted to go in the past. This year however we had some heavy-hitting help.  Aerovault Production Manager, Damien (seen here on the right), joined us to give people an in-depth tour of the Aerovault in our booth at Laguna. Kat had the entire week handled even before it began with identifying what to take, getting everything loaded, then unloaded when we arrived, managing our schedules, shooing us on our way as we needed to get to the next activity, basically handling everything. We hope you were able to meet these two highly valued people. If not, you have another chance to by coming to the Open House. Thanks Damien and Kat!

 

1st for the week was the Peninsula Concours where us judges chose this beautiful Talbot Largo	Also at the Concours was one of our favorite ladies, Alma Hill (Phil Hill's widow).	Next evening was McCall's Motorsports Revival where Dan Gurney (L) caught up with MotoGP Champion Wayne Rainey. Oh, the stories!
It was a big week for Ford, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the GT40 win at Le Mans.	At Edsel Ford's reception I got to pose with this beautiful 2016 Ford GT rendition of the 1965 winning GT40.	Speaking of Edsel Ford III, here we are at an autograph signing a the Laguna-Seca track.
Another two of my favorites. Sir Stirling and Lady Moss.	The week ended on a high note as Greg Miller (seen here to the Right), of the Miller Collection in Utah, stopped by dinner Saturday night to announce they had purchased at auction, the first Cobra ever built.    Greg got a standing ovation for keeping this piece of U.S. history in America!

 

The Lime Rock Historic Festival two weeks after Monterey was much more low key and focused. That doesn't mean less busy but going only to the track everyday was a nice compliment to Monterey week. We don't get to the East coast as often and the lines at our autograph sessions were impressive and always fun as we see what people dig out of their closets to show us.

And of course there's the opportunity to see old friends.

During a panel discussion one evening we recreated this BRE archive photo (top) taken in 1972 at Road Atlanta with John Morton (L), myself and Sam Posey (R). We are having fun!

We sold a lot of my Corvette books at the autograph sessions which caused our inventory manager to raise the flag that we're nearing the end of our printing.  At this time we don't have plans to do a second printing so don't wait if you think you might want one go here (they make especially nice gifts).  But I digress.

  

As the honored guests of the event John Morton and I each had the opportunity to choose our favorite car at the Lime Rock Concours on Sunday. It's just another example of what I love about how cars bring us together. John had picked a couple of contenders when he came across a non-descript early circle track car. The car was certainly not a concours winner but the owner had over time pulled together the entire race history on the car.  While looking at that history, John found it was the car that had won the very first race John had gone to with his father at the impressionable age of 7.  Game over... it won John's award for his favorite car at the Concours.

  

My choice was a mid-'60s 850 Fiat Spyder with a body by Bertone. It's a beautiful Italian design. A car that was inexpensive yet every detail attended to.  It would never be a contender for top honors at a concours.  Knowing the top cars would be taken care of by the regular judges awards, I chose it to bring attention to how special it is and ensure it wasn't overlooked by the crowds. Both sets of owners were thrilled to be chosen. Our choices are just another example of how cars bond us together.