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Event Coverage: 2013 Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance

Packed with three days of participant events, two world-class auctions, and more than 300 cars on display, the 2013 Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance offered something for everyone. And this year it honored Sam Posey, whose legacy as a driver, racing commentator, artist, and architect is well deserved.

Event Coverage: 2013 Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance

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Dodge RAM WPA-Style Posters

Chrysler evokes the spirit of automotive travel to America's national parks in a retro ad campaign for the 2013 Ram trucks. Read about it in Auto News: Guts, Glory, Art, RAM.

2013 Dodge Ram WPA-style poster wallpaper Balanced Rock 1600

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Travel News: Plan Your Summer With Valero's All-American Roadtrip

With tips for Fido-friendly travel, road trips on a budget, and much more, PlanYourRoadTrip.com is our favorite new trip-planning website.

Travel News: Plan Your Summer With Valero's All-American Roadtrip

Cool Cars + Coffee

Grab a cup of your favorite blend. We'll provide the cars.

 


The Jaguar C-X75 Concept Stops at Cars & Coffee
Written by Frank Filipponio   
Thursday, 18 November 2010 10:01
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Art form or concept vehicle? Catching Jaguar's green supercar before its official U.S. debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show

Jaguar C-X75 Concept Car

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And Now for Something Completely Different, a Fiat 850-based Amphibian
Written by D.H. Lecter   
Friday, 25 September 2009 04:46
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Jeff Johnson brought his seaworthy Fiat 850 to last week's Cars and Coffee and it certainly made waves in land-locked Irvine.

Fiat Amphibian at Cars and Coffee You just never know what's going to show up on any given Saturday at Cars and Coffee; that's what continues to make the event so popular and last Saturday certainly was no exception. Among the muscle cars, hot rods, the exotics, and what seems like dozens of late model Porsches, something always seems to stand out. In this instance, approaching from the distance, the size and shape was somewhat recognizable yet not. Getting closer, and with a car gathered around the car I asked myself, "What is that?" Then people started talking, saying that it's an amphibious Fiat, like the German-manufactured Amphicar from the sixties, a car that not only drives but floats as well. I just had to check it out and spoke with the owner Jeff Johnson, who has spent much of the last 25 years constructing this one-off car/boat.

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Cars + Coffee Combo: 1970 Mustang Boss 302 Trans Am and Ford 8000 COE Transporter
Written by Rich Truesdell   
Saturday, 18 April 2009 08:14
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Another example of "you never know what will show up at Cars and Coffee" is this tribute to Ford's legendary Total Performance era and its 1970 Trans-Am championship.

Ford 8000 COE Transport and Parnelli Jones 1970 Ford Mustang Boss 302 Trans Am Tribute Racer What makes the weekly Cars and Coffee gathering at Ford's Western Regional Headquarters such a great event is that every week is a surprise; today was no exception. Whether it's seeing Lamborghini's latest parked next to a vintage Ford pickup, or this week, more than two dozen Boss Mustangs commemorating the 45th birthday of America's most popular Pony Car, nothing can quite beat this combination: a period-correct recreation of a Bud Moore Ford Race transporter with a tribute to Parnelli Jones' 1970 Trans-Am championship-winning 1970 Boss 302 Mustang on top.

 
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Cool Cars + Coffee
Written by Rich Truesdell   
Monday, 22 December 2008 05:32
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Mike Heredia's 1958 Plymouth Belvedere "Christine"

1958 Plymouth Belvedere

As many of you know I'm a Cars + Coffee (C+C) regular. C+C is the informal car show/cruise held every Saturday morning from 7 to 9 AM in the parking lot between Ford's Western Regional and the Mazda corporate headquarters; it's actually the Mazda parking lot. Originally the brainchild of Ford's Western Regional PR honcho John Clinard and Ford's Advanced Design VP Freeman Thomas (father of the Audi TT), C+C moved to its current location when a similar gathering got kicked out of its previous home at a strip mall on the Pacific Coast Highway in Crystal Cove, south of Newport Beach. To get there in time to snag a parking place in the main lot means a 5:15 AM wake-up for the hour-long drive from Temecula to Irvine. Typically C+C draws from 350 to 500 cars; often overflow spills into adjacent parking areas so it's not uncommon to see a Ferrari Enzo in one of the spectator lots.

 
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