michael comet - cars, dogs, photos and musings: September 2014

This year I was fortunate enough to find out about and join a Concours in Danville, CA which was created to help raise money to fight Parkinson's disease. http://www.danville-delegance.org/ The show happens every September and this was the 10th year to help raise money for the Michael J. Fox foundation. The event consists of a Saturday drive to Napa and an evening Dinner, both of which I missed due to late registration. There is also the Sunday show/concours event which I signed up for and brought the Cayman to.

As you might expect for Danville, the event had some seriously nice cars, ranging from muscles cars, to exotics, to race cars, and rare classics. At noon the special race cars drive in down the entire length of Hartz Avenue which is closed down for the show and then park. It's extremely loud. :)

Here are some pictures of the cars (and many dogs at the event.. hehe). A handfull of gratuitous shots of the Porsche will have to be excused as it was my first concours. I didn't expect to win based on the fact I already have 10,000+ miles and it has some wear. That said, one of the judges told me my car showed well but was too new. He told me I would have placed pretty high though, maybe even third. (they only give award for 1st place). The owner next to me told me the judges kept checking out my car, and the black 993 Porsche which won in the end, so it must have been decent. After three weekends of prep that made me happy at least. (Yes I literally washed my car for a month) Though reality is there were a lot of really great P-Cars that probably deserved it way more than me..heh.

Entry behind a Triumph

Me and a 911 RS Tribute car

Shiny

Met the owner of this Lotus at the event in Orinda last weekend too

HRE wheels on this Porsche 996

The owner here, another Michael was telling me about all the mods done by Sharkwerks... including a serious boost in hp from various mods from exhaust, plenum, ECU tune etc...

Three different Diablo's at the event in addition to this Gallardo, a Huracan and an Aventador

Lovely orange GT3

Audi R8 coming in with Green Wrap and wrapped CF look blades.

Cool wheels too

Mercedes SLS AMG Black

Yep... didn't like the wrapped side blades tho...

The rest of the race cars parked here at noon after they arrived.

McLaren P1

P1 and 650S

Pantera

another DeTomaso Pantera

great scott!

1937 Cord 812 Beverely Sedan

The engine of a....

2005 Ultima GTR

Dogs!

One of my favorite cars at the event. This won it's class. An 80's Renault Turbo 2 and its owner

Owner was explaining how they overlayed the dashboard for american gauges

They dropped larger engines in for the Rally versions.

Bentley. Some woman on the phone was talking to her friend saying "OMG is that a Bentley, I don't want to even breathe on it!" and going crazy...heh. I told the saleswoman she should let her sit in it tho she might have to clean up after...hah.