Bay Area "Crystal Cove"

That's an excellent drive.

vince

 

Funny you mentioned this…

I'm currently in the process of setting something like this up. Not every Saturday yet, but one Saturday a month. I'm also, working with a few dealerships to bring out some nice cars. Coffee, pastries, etc...

Location is bring worked on, but it will be somewhere in the peninsula. Early morning so everyone has their afternoons free still.

 

I'd be up for a drive this weekend and certain would like a montlhly event. It doesn't need to be fancy w food drink etc. A meet at coffee shop followed by a 20-50 mi drive is good enough for me. Alice restaurant is a good place. Any other coffee shop w a large parking lot on the pennisula is good too.

 

I think Alice's might be out of the way for a lot of epople and prevents some of the wilder cars (Enzo, CGT, etc) from showing up.

I would say keep it a little east of the mountains. The problem with the bay area isn't the lack of cars (to be honest, I think there are many more, and much nicer, cars up here) - the problem is that there are myriad car communities and they are all highly segregated (you don't see the Martin Swigs or Candy Store types mingling much with the sunday morning breakfast crew, etc).

--Dan

 

Great idea as long as at least one month is farther north!!

 

This is a great idea. I agree that access will make or break this. Perhaps somewhere with a nice parking lot and access to coffee. Stanford Mall parking lot. Stonestown in SF. Strawberry Village Mall in Mill Valley (adjacent to Sonnen Porsche, across Hwy 101 from FoSF). To name a few. I'd be happy to help organise.
Norm

 

IF anyone wants to do Alice's this weekend let me know, i'll be doing it.

vince

 

At the risk of overcomplicating this ...

Presumably there are concentrations of Ferraris in the East Bay, on the Peninsula, and in SF/North Bay. So what about a 3-location-rotating schedule: Ferrari Redwood City, Ferrari Mill Valley, and Auto Affair Danville?

There is a nice Italian restaurant with big parking lot adjacent to Ferrari in Mill Valley, and possibly the dealership might welcome us as well in some way.

Auto Affair is a Ferrari-intensive enthusiast shop at 400 Sycamore Canyon Road, Danville, in a cosy shopping center with plenty of parking and several nice eateries.

I don't know what parking/restaurants might be around Ferrari Redwood City, but it seems to have something of a snackbar or mini-coffeshop of its own.

 

I have been following this thread and certainly agree with Maquino. We are a bit spread out here and if we picked some differnet locations (as mentioned) it could work. I did not see this as a "overcomplication", but as a possible solution.

...And speaking of (the Auto Enthusiast in Danville) I think Hot Danville nights will be coming up for a few nights in July and August. The two dates that I know of are July 28th and August 11th.

Does anyone here hit that?

David
91 Mondial

 

There's another thread on this theme in the Northern California section about a drive on July 4. Problem is - at least in my mind - its way far away. Too far for me. I can't do a drive on Saturday but Sunday or Monday would be cool. I have a friend who has a Lotus Elan - he and I were going to do a drive one of these days. Along the Peninsula would be cool. I've never done the Alice's restaurant thing but I've heard about it. Someone else mentioned some road to La Honda. I don't know these roads too well. Stanford Mall would be a perfect place to meet in my mind. Is there some place to get breakfast there and then head on out?

Scott

 

I'm up for Alice's on Sat.

vince

 

Ok, I get it. Alice's sounds fine. I could do Monday morning (7/4). I may be able to do Sunday morning. I have to take my wife/kids to the airport early. I could then come back, get the F-car, and meet you guys there if Sunday morning is doable. I would imagine I'd get there around 8:30ish. Hard to tell though as I don't know how far a drive it is from my house and since I have to take the family to the airport I can't take my F-car from there :-(.

Scott

 

I too was thinking about looking into something like CC.

I think the best way to handle the situation would be to split it in half. Where ever it ends up, there will always be people saying that it is too far, and will take too long, to get to. Thats just how the bay area has grown. It would probably be easiest to set up a North/South Bay, or West/East Bay meets for each week. Making them at the same time and day would make it less confusing for people. You could make one on one day and the other the next, but then people might get confused and drive and show up at the wrong place the wrong day.

If it catches on, then I would think that something would be able to be aranged where both groups could meet at one of their spots the last weekend of the month (as an example). that way, each group could have a nice little rally atleast once a month, and it would bring together cars that you dont see every week.

CC has worked because it just started simple. The consistancy of it is what has made it grown over the years. There have been 2 newer gatherings that have started (northern LA and in SD) for the people who live further and dont want to always want to make the drive to CC.

That's my 2 cents.

 

Hey that wasn't your black VT parked in Palo Alto today was it?

I think a CC type meet in the Bay Area would be awesome - something near SF might work well for a central location too. There is the base at Alameda that is open for the public, it makes for some awesome photo shoots (my friend discovered that one).

 

nope. i dont own one

 

How many down for Sun at 10am at Alice? We can make this a recurring meet if enuf show up.

 

Won't Alice's be packed with motorcycles by then?

I'll show up, why not?

--Dan

 

Sure, I'll be there.

Gary

 

Today's meet was pretty damn good I must say. Too bad Vince couldnt come along for the drive... although we did get stuck behind some idiot in a Honda for a few miles... otherwise it was an awesome drive

Hope to see some more F-chat people out there in the upcoming meets.

-Alex

 

10 AM Alice's, see you there

 

Map for the clueless?