What a great day.
What started out as a small cars and coffee turn into a history lesson and a cruise down a forgotten historic track.
First, a couple of neat machines:
Then the owner of this vehicle filled me in on the story behind one of the great racetracks. It is the story about the "race through the forest."
We took off and I found myself in my Carrera 3.0 cruising in beautiful scenery and forgotten history.
The pictures do not do it justice. In the last picture is where the starting line and pit lanes used to be.
The route we drove (twice) is what used to be "the race through the forest." It was a pebble beach race for the del monte trophy. This race ended in 1956, after Ernie Mcafee fatally crashed his Ferrari into a tree on April 22nd.
This was the end of street racing on the peninsula. It was also to be the reason Laguna Seca exists today - what a fascinating piece of history. Btw, no other than Carroll Shelby won the last race. Speaking of, see next post.
The day ended in a hanger at mry airport.