Crystal Cove Car Meet 8-25-06
Saturday's meet at Crystal Cove was a fairly typical one. Some stellar exotics, mixed with hot rods and classics, with a few supercar surprises thrown in for good measure. Three Diablo 6.0s, including the recent Concorso Italiano Best of Show black one owned by Chris Wong. A brace of Isos, a matched set of 612s, a pair of Vantages. Several F430s in various colors including one with sick 345 Enzo wheels and tires.
Classic Minis, a new Z06, a Superamerica and a beautiful '63 T-Bird took up one corner, while a few "not quite what they seem to be" specials filled a few spots nearby. A Stillen modified Ford GT, a BMW "3002 ttii" with a twin-turbo modern 6 and rear mounted transaxle, a surpercharged Ariel Atom (!), and a Novitec paneled F430. Noble brought a red M400 on its way from Monterey back to 1G in Cincinnati. A few other nice Lamborghinis including a pearl white Murcielago roadster with a red alcantara interior were also present.
Like classic Ferraris? How about a Daytona or a Lusso? Prefer something newer? Maybe an SL65 or perhaps a Ford GT in Gulf livery? Rather have the original than the new J Mays interpretation? Superformance had its SPF recreation there for you. Didn't have to search hard to find a couple of Cobras and a Targa Florio MG. And just for good measure, Gerald Weigert, father of the Vector supercar, showed up with two of his rarest models, the WX3 and Roadster. Watch for more in depth coverage of these cars in the future.
So basically another normal Saturday at this informal meet that has been running every Saturday morning for about three years, from 7 to 9 at this Promenade near Newport Beach, California. Always something new and exciting from this show located in the hotbed of SoCal car country. Hope you enjoy this new weekly feature.
Plenty of high-res photos after the jump. Just click on the thumbs for a desktop-sized pic.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Emil Rensing 9:29PM (8/27/2006)
I knew it was only a matter of time before CC hit AutoBlog. Great pics... as always, Frank!
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Alex Nunez 9:45PM (8/27/2006)
Frank made my day with the Vector. Man, oh man...
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tyler grove 10:12PM (8/27/2006)
what are the interior pictures from
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and the next one...
now i think they are the vector's yeah?
wow... crazy interior
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Paul Roides 11:56PM (8/27/2006)
That vector has easily got the ugliest interior of all time. Wow.
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Chris 11:57PM (8/27/2006)
You guys missed the Atomacrossamerica.org guy a couple weeks back...along with the Wrightspeed electric Atom. Full coverage people, FULL coverage!
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DPC car videos 12:13AM (8/28/2006)
nice cars, wish there was events like this near where I live.
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verdegrrl 1:39PM (8/28/2006)
Crystal Cove may be facing a crises due to it's own success.
From a Ferrari forum:
"Crystal Cove on the brink???
This week I attended a function and one of the VP's of the Irvine Co. was there. One of his responsibilities is to oversee CC. Judging by his comments, CC is a big pain in the @ss for them. Resident complaints, tenant complaints, problems, revving engines unnecessarily, high speeds on PCH, security expense etc. He did say they plan to continue but all it would take is to have one major incident and the whole thing would end. I explained that I thought the event was running very smoothly and especially well when the cops are there writing tickets So, the purpose of mentioning this is the survival of CC is up to all of us. It's up to everyone to be respectful and not allow anything to happen that will jeopardize the show's future. Pass it along (especially to the knuckleheads out there) and hopefully the word gets out......
PS - one other thing that he said is that they believe that the show does not bring that much business to CC. Of course Starbucks and a couple of the restaurants etc. I explained that that is hard to measure and that you would find that the awareness of the show drives a lot of new shoppers to the mall. So, if you do shop there let the tenants know the reason why you chose CC."
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2009 Ford Mustang 2:57AM (8/28/2006)
Nice pics! The 427 Cobra is sweet!
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Sid 8:45AM (8/28/2006)
Autoblog, I have a quick question -
Which camera did you use for these pictures?
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John Neff 9:08AM (8/28/2006)
Sid, I believe Frank used a Canon 300d Digital Rebel, but don't quote me on that. Frank could make a disposable camera take excellent pics, though.
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Dennis R. Smith 9:07AM (8/28/2006)
Check it out Dizzzzzz!
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FireSermon 9:35AM (8/28/2006)
EXIF data from one of his first pics...
Camera Make: Canon
Camera Model: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL
Image Date: 2006:08:26 06:33:38
Flash Used: No
Focal Length: 22.0mm
Exposure Time: 0.067 s (1/15)
Aperture: f/4.0
ISO equiv: 100
Metering Mode: Matrix
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Sid 9:57AM (8/28/2006)
Thanks, John and FireSermon. Hats off to Frank. GREAT pictures. Autoblog is the best!
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Jay P. 10:57AM (8/28/2006)
FYI, also more weekly photo highlights from Crystal Cove are at http://crystalcovecarshow.blogspot.com
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Fooman 2:38PM (8/28/2006)
Welcome to my backyard... On Saturday or Sunday you see alot of high end exotics cruising PCH... I've seen most of those cars cruising around with the exceptions of the GT's and the Superformance GT40. For some reason I have yet to spot one. Granted the Superformance showroom is about 3 miles from my house. The Atom must be fairly new though as I just spoted it at coffee shop a few weeks ago.
Other rarities that show up or live in the area.
LM 2000
XJ 220
A Noble or 2
3 Jeepsters
A Carrera GT or 3
More 911's and Turbo's then you can ever imagine.
A bunch of La Forza's
Nice to see the Vectors come out, I heard Fiskar shows up also with one of each model also. Frank we should grab coffee and I can show you the rare cars just sitting in Driveways in EastSide Costa Mesa.
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Fooman 2:38PM (8/28/2006)
Wow missed the pic of the MGC there are at least 2 other MGC's in the area. My Neighboor has a B, B-gt, 57 A and 2 Rover 3500's
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PC 8:57PM (8/31/2006)
Last year our buddy Larry showed his McLaren off at Crystal Cove - very sweet ride! I love exotics, but I also like to see clean nicely customized SUVs.
We had our H2 Hummer there on the 25th. It is supercharged to 525 HP and has the Special Vehicle Concepts body kit on it.
What is really cool is what we did on the inside. We put in a car computing system with Internet access that we designed and built to maximize productivity and to provide new forms of in-vehicle entertainment.
To recapture lost productive time spent driving we developed special email software that works both by touch screen and voice command. Email messages and alerts are read to the user and new email messages and replies can be composed simply by speaking. And video conferencing software works with the webcam that has been fabricated into the Hummer to allow you told hold face-to-face conference calls from the car.
Our unique entertainment offering can now deliver TV content from a home Satellite or Cable receiver and TiVo to the Hummer or play personalized streaming music. With the voice controlled MP3 player you can play the specific music track, artist or genre you want to hear with a simple command. Just say "Play Song Higher Ground" or "Play Artist Stevie Wonder."
Of course it has GPS navigation, but we enhanced it with voice controlled local search that lets you ask the Hummer to “take you to the nearest Post Office” or any yellow page type business or service category.
Let me know if you want to see it again at CC.
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Frank4Cars 9:35PM (8/31/2006)
#17--I have seen a lot of really nice trucks/SUVs/tuner compacts at CC, but the regulars tend to frown on them. It's mainly for classics and exotics. There might be a few people who get something out of seeing the tech inside these rolling Best Buys, but to not offend the old timers I always recommend parking just to the side of the main lot. Everybody will still see it and because most people go to see the exotics and classics, you won't be upsetting anybody. Doesn't make sense to stir things up if you're looking for customers. Best to follow protocol and try to fit in. Same advice to the yahoos who show up in packs of Asian tuner cars or late-model American iron and want to prove they belong by taking up a whole row of the main lot and then putting the whole show in jeopardy by peeling out when they leave. Hate to generalize, but these are the guys that tend to attract the wrong kind of attention at the meet.
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Steve 6:03PM (10/03/2006)
I read in the Register they are giving this car show a hard time. You should bring this show up to old town Orange. We would love it. Do it in the parkimg lot on the northwest corner of Lemon and Chapman Ave. Please!!
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James Douglas 12:18AM (10/15/2006)
I read the Register article about Crystal Cove shutting the event down.
You may want to try the outdoor mall in Huntington Beach called Bella Terra. It is located at Beach and the 405 Fwy.
It has the following benefits:
It is right off the FWY
It has lots of parking
A Peet's coffee house and a Corner Bakery
Residential neighborhoods are not close by.
Just a thought.
Good Luck!
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