{"id":64,"date":"2010-02-28T19:05:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T03:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emaren.com\/blog\/?p=64"},"modified":"2010-02-28T19:05:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T03:05:51","slug":"supercar-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/supercar-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercar Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Due to inclement weather yesterday, Cars and Coffee was ‘rained out’, or at least we all assumed it was.<\/p>\n

\"Baby<\/a>

When I grow up....<\/p><\/div>\n

So, in order to get my weekly fix of automotive eye candy I decided to attend ‘Supercar Sunday’<\/a> in Woodland Hills. Despite looking up the directions, I did not really comprehend just how far away it actually is. When I looked I noticed the estimated time, rather than the mileage. The estimate was something over an hour and the event is scheduled to run from 7AM to 10AM.<\/p>\n

No Problem I thought, on a Sunday morning the traffic will be light, I can leave home at 6:45 and probably be there not much after 7:30.<\/p>\n

Yeah right.<\/p>\n

I did actually jump into Vlad (The Chevy Impala) at a little after 6:45, I had to stop for gas ($50) and coffee so I did not reach the freeway until just a little after 7AM.<\/p>\n

\"Vlad's<\/a>

Comfortable and unobtrusive <\/p><\/div>\n

Setting the cruise control to ‘comfortable and unobtrusive’, which translates to ‘about 70-75mph’ I headed north.<\/p>\n

My assumption that there would be little traffic was at least pretty accurate, until I reached Hollywood. Yes I had not realized that Woodland Hills is north of Hollywood !<\/p>\n

Of course once I was close to the event and the clock was close to 8AM, it was obvious that I was in the correct place, how many times do you see a Ferrari TR512, a Porsche 928 a Diablo and an Enzo running nose-to-tail ?<\/p>\n

Parking was no problem, I parked right next to my friend Leo, who only tentatively mentioned that he may be going….<\/p>\n

The event its self however was different to any event I have been to in a long time. It was commercial<\/em> and random at the same time, several vendors were selling items ranging from Ferrari ‘gear’ where a tee-shirt runs you $99 ! to a Ferrari branded carbon fiber keyfob for an astonishing $339. Plus tax. Other vendors were a lot more reasonable, tee-shirts for the event and many other carbon\/billet\/polished items could be purchased fairly inexpensively. I came close to spending money on a number of things, but common sense prevailed.<\/p>\n

The event was also the first outing of my new Canon G10, in use it is extremely responsive and the quality of the images appears to be first class.<\/p>\n

Take a wander over to cncpics.com<\/a> and see for yourself.<\/p>\n

It was apparently Ferrari day today, with a large number of F-cars turning up gleaming in the morning sun, mostly red, mostly ‘late model’ and all highly desirable, if you like that sort of thing. Personally I was a little disappointed not to see a section of vintage models, but I do understand the appeal of the 3xx and 4xx series.<\/p>\n

The rest of the lot was a mish-mash of old and new, tuner, custom, survivor and replicar, much more my sort of thing \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I enjoyed the event and will go again, but the 160 mile round-trip is probably more than I will want to do every month…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Max goes to Supercar Sunday in Woodland Hills<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-driving","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}