The Classic Auto Show LA2017

With 600 antique, classic and retro cars worth more than a billion US dollars on display, it was billed as “the ultimate Auto experience”. Brave call, considering California also hosts that other modest annual car event up the coast. Where’s that one at again? Ah yes,...

AUTOSTADT MUSEUM WOLFSBURG

The highlight of our time in Germany was our visit to Autostadt (German for Automobile City). We travelled for an hour from Berlin Spandel Railway Station to Wolfsburg, where we the guests of Audi. We were picked up at the railway station and driven to the Autostadt...

Bidding a fond farewell to ‘Monterey Auto Week’

Bidding a fond farewell to ‘Monterey Auto Week’, we drove north, taking advantage of a three-day open house, featuring one of the finest restoration facilities on the West Coast. Motoring enthusiast and car salesman Bruce Canepa owns a 77,000 square foot facility that...

Santa Barbara’s Hippy Car culture.

Our next journey involved driving south back through Monterey and towards the Pacific Coast Highway through some breathtaking coast line down to Santa Barbara. Taking a well-earned day off, we hired some beach cruisers and rode along the beach to the central pier....

Monterey Car Week and Pebble Beach 2016 – Photo Diary

We’ve spent a lot of time planning the best way to use our limited time of seven days of auto festivities and while that sounds like a fantastic ‘problem’ to have, it is a tough decision! The fact that there are so many interesting programs and events going on at...

Monterey Car Week Part 1 – Photo Diary

First Week in California Shortly after arriving on the West Coast we jumped into  our hire car and hit the road; driving north from Santa Monica to Monterey, on the world famous Pacific Coast Highway (PCH). Our hire car of choice, to  accompany us north on our...