Grab a cup of your favorite blend. We'll provide the cars.
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Written by Frank Filipponio
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Thursday, 18 November 2010 10:01 |
Art form or concept vehicle? Catching Jaguar's green supercar before its official U.S. debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show
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Written by D.H. Lecter
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Friday, 25 September 2009 04:46 |
Jeff Johnson brought his seaworthy Fiat 850 to last week's Cars and Coffee and it certainly made waves in land-locked Irvine.
 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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Written by Rich Truesdell
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Saturday, 18 April 2009 08:14 |
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.
 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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Written by Rich Truesdell
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Monday, 22 December 2008 05:32 |
Mike Heredia's 1958 Plymouth Belvedere "Christine"
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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