Most Saturday mornings I go to Cars and Coffee in Irvine and photograph the cars, drink coffee, chat with people and then head home to publish the photographs on cncpics.com. This week I took a trip up to Huntington Beach to visit Donut Derelicts.
This is the first time in a while I have been there and despite getting slightly lost (side-note I was on my bike, hence no GPS hand-holding me) I managed to get there before 6:40AM.
The photographs are on line here but needless to say the event was amazing.
Once I had walked around and photographed many of the cars I headed back down the freeway to Cars and Coffee in Irvine.
This week was the first week for the 'new rules'. When the even first started the concept was to take what had been successful at the old crystal cove event and give it more space. From the outset it was an un-written rule that you should only show something that is truly worth showing. Something cool, interesting and unusual. Sadly the events popularity lead to many people not understanding that a bodykit, wing and over-sized wheels did not make your late-model Nissan/Honda/Ford/BMW/etc that interesting and many 'regular' cars started to appear in the lot on a regular basis.
Eventually the situation became ridiculous, the 'tuner' crowd invaded on a regular basis and turned it into a Hot Import Nights Mornings, style event complete with wild smoky exits.
John and Freeman therefore clarified the guidlelines, much to the annoyance of the crowd that had taken the event as their own.
This week when I arrived at 7:30 John, Linda and the crew where directing 'average' cars to park in the public lot.
The effect of this was one of the best events for a long time.
The photographs are here if you want to check them out
Finally on Sunday I headed back up the freeway to Santa Ana, to check out an event at 'Original Mikes'. This is anotyher old-school hot-rod event. The highlights where the aero-engined 30ft long 'thing' and stories behind some of the 'rods. Again the pics are here if you want to check them out.
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