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Monterey Car Week 2024

Sandy Johnson

Sandy Johnson

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I generally try to avoid most of the gnarly traffic and craziness, and 100% won't pay to get into an auction or car show just to spectate, but there are some free events I took the kids to. We wandered around and took some pictures, figured you guys might want to see.

Concours d'Lemons. I love this event and try to go every year. They have the most interesting stuff. I was giving my kids the standard car show line of "Ok, we look but don't touch any cars." when one of the judges walked by and said "Well, you can touch these cars." Love it.

Hawaiian Land Rover brah.
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Saw not one, but TWO more refined version of the cyber truck WITH their factory tents.

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Sitting on a sketchy hacked up golf kart chassis
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"Safari"
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I posted this one in another thread, but it's worth talking about in greater detail. it started life as a VW Bug, then got the bus front end added on, then all the other silly-ness happened to it. Asked the owner if about the drive train:
"Stock vw bug"
"Stock gearing all that?"
"Yep! It's 1st or 2nd gear max" :laughing:

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Seat is all the way back there because that's where you would sit on a vw bug pan
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We went last year to Seaside to see the Exotics on Broadway. Too many people, too much traffic. They made you park way up on the hill and take a shuttle bus down. Wife was almost to breakdown mode when everyone bum rushed the bus to go back to the parking area. Chaos! Aint gonna do that again!
 
Cars and coffee was right across the street so we strolled through there as well:


Wife had a '76 bmw 2002 with surf racks back in high school. This dude took the concept and ran with it:
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Owner seemed a little uh.. light in the loafers when I talked to him. Interior sort of confirmed that:
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He added a third brake light that was cool as hell though:
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Seemed to be front wheel drive. Couldn't find any shaft or chain to the rear.
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This thing was hiding out in a dirt lot behind the all the fun
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So was this... check out the second motor out back
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I've got a buddy who went full retard on carshow/car audio stuff in on his redeye hellcat. He happened to be hanging out as well
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BIG-O said:
We went last year to Seaside to see the Exotics on Broadway. Too many people, too much traffic. They made you park way up on the hill and take a shuttle bus down. Wife was almost to breakdown mode when everyone bum rushed the bus to go back to the parking area. Chaos! Aint gonna do that again!
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We hit exotics on broadway, but as locs, we always have an escape route- in this case it was we parked really really far away and hauled the kids in on bikes via the monterey bike path. Another pro tip is when you get sick of the crowds, duck into the Other Brother Brewery there on Broadway.

Here's some pics from that. Most of those cars are booooring though. Lambo this, Pagani that. They all look the same but with wraps, exhaust, and wheels.

Except this thing. Don't see many of these rolling around:
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Everyone's going all in on carbon
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Car with the fastest lap time of a "production car" at Laguna Seca:
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The do some cool 3d printing:
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Chassis showing off more of their 3d printing:
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