[alfa] Re: Concorso-Pebble Beach-Laguna Seca: Traffic = TIMING

[George Graves <gmgraves@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's all fine and good if one is a spectator. But if you are an 
exhibitor, as I was, you HAVE to be there, and in place, by 8:30 AM. 
They need some way to separate the exhibitor traffic from the spectator 
traffic so that exhibitors don't end-up sitting in traffic for more 
than an hour. Many of these Italian thoroughbreds weren't designed to 
sit in traffic, and the number of valuable and beautiful cars that I 
saw on the side of the road with boil-overs (I saw one Ferrari Dino 
actually puff his lump right in front of me) shows that the problem 
must be solved or these people won't be back. My GTV-6, I'm happy to 
report, handled the 1 hour, 36 minutes that I spent crawling along Gen. 
Jim Moore Parkway without the temp gauge ever going over the middle 
mark (175 degrees F), I.E. no problems. But *I* wasn't so lucky. I 
boiled over early-on and it took me at least an hour to cool down. Not 
good.

George Graves
'86 GTV-6 3.0 'S'



On Aug 17, 2004, at 10:10 AM, alfa-digest wrote:

>
> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 09:36:52 -0400
> From: "Eliseo Carrillo" <ecarrillog@domain.elided>
> Subject: [alfa] Concorso-Pebble Beach-Laguna Seca: Traffic = TIMMING
>
> I think it is all about timing!
>
> CONCORSO: We drove from San Francisco on Friday and got to the 
> Concorso area
> around 11:30 am or so following directions and thought it was GREAT! 
> We ended
> up getting to the field around noon, by the time you park, walk and 
> actually
> get to the cars it takes some time but really thought it was excellent
> organized.
>
> PEBBLE BEACH: this time we were not so lucky. We thought getting first 
> thing
> to the Concourse was the best thing but it turned out to be a BAD idea.
> Traffic was very bad, parking was worst and then the time to wait for 
> a bus,
> the time to get to the other bus and then to the concourse. Then talk 
> about
> lots of people......Do not think about taking pictures.....not 
> possible! I
> think I will not go back to Pebble Beach for a long time!
>
> LAGUNA SECA: We got there early but followed the driving directions 
> from the
> track and got on the alternate route. We were there in no time. You do 
> have to
> walk a bit from parking but the hole event is more than worth it! 
> Amazingly
> enough Sunday is MUCH BETTER than Saturday, I guess because people go 
> to
> Pebble on Sunday.
>
> In all GREAT cars were seen and lots of fun had.
>
> Regards,
>
> Eliseo
> 101.23...
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