The Crank: 2010 Concours D’LeMons

[svgallery name=”2010 Concours LeMons”] Story and photos by John LeBlanc SALINAS, Calif. – In total contrast to the multi-zillion-dollar collector and race cars I saw at the Quail Lodge, Monterey vintage races and Pebble Beach concours last weekend, I managed to sneak away to Toro Regional Park, home of the second annual Concours d’LeMons for […]

Stuff: 2010 Monterey Motorsports Reunion

[svgallery name=”2010_Monterey_hirez”] Story and photos by John LeBlanc LAGUNA SECA, Calif. – Since the mid-1970s, fans of vintage racing have been coming to the Monterey Peninsula’s Laguna Seca race track to see a wide variety of vintage racers, some of which trace their beginnings to the inaugural Pebble Beach road races in the 1950s. And […]

Stuff: 2010 The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering

[svgallery name=”2010_Quail_hirez”] Story and photos by John LeBlanc CARMEL VALLEY, Calif. – Now in its eighth year, The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering, is held on the golf course holes that lies between the Santa Lucia mountains at the Quail Lodge Resort in Carmel Valley. If may not be as well known as the Monterey historic […]

Stuff: 2010 Pebble Beach Concours D’Élégance

[svgallery name=”2010_Pebble_Concours_hirez”] Story and photos by John LeBlanc PEBBLE BEACH, Calif.–If interest in the automobile is waning, don’t tell any of thousands of enthusiasts who made their way out to the annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Élégance this year. Between the new, the old, the classic, the survivors, and the just plain odd cars on display […]

The Crank: Why I hate (some) Old Fart cars

By John LeBlanc MONTEREY, Calif. – Cars as art? No problem. I can appreciate the past as rolling sculpture as well as anyone else. I never really understood the fascination with driving old cars, though, at least for the cars I’ve owned or driven in the past. They’ve always been more fragile, unreliable, slower, or […]

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