Barn Find Blog Post? Pebble Beach 2016
The term “barn find” has been extended well outside its original meaning of barns and unmolested original finds, but that’s okay. Could something found in a hole on the internet be a barn find as well? That’s how I feel about this post, because I wrote it six months ago and kind of…abandoned it. This is more or less a gallery of the coolest cars I saw at the 2016 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, but classic cars are timeless, right? I still think it’s worth checking out, so I’d like to share it. The original text is as follows:
There are a lot of “concours” events around the world. Hell, it seems like there’s one every few weeks out here in Northern California. But when people say “Concours”—with that capital C—they’re only talking about one thing: the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance.
I saw a really funny comment on Speedhunters the other day. Dino Dalle Carbonare, in setting up a post about driving the Pagani to Canepa Cars & Coffee, mentioned about how early he’d gotten up and left his hotel room. Impatience and intolerance clearly runs wild for some people, especially in any internet comments section, and I just have to quote this moron’s post verbatim: Stop being like everyone else on the internet and posting a minutes worth of drivel before you show the content you actually promised to show. No one cares about your hotel room.
Mud Slingers
That face you make when you know you’ve made a huge mistake.
Given that it had been raining and would certainly start raining again, I don’t know why any of those guys drove into this pasture, but it was definitely a huge mistake for Drew. He maneuvered his LS1-swapped 1997 Volvo V90 directly into something a bit too squishy for summer tires, and then stopped.
Rained Out
Well, that was a bit of an anticlimax.
Early on Sunday morning, I drove this 570GT from Palo Alto to El Dorado Hills for the “Niello Concours at Serrano”. The drive was about 160 miles, which took about two and a half hours. It was a great journey on the way up there! Clear weather, very light traffic, and mostly beautiful sights.
Star Road 