Tucson Cars & Coffee - November 9, 2013

My better half and I took our Spider up to Tucson Cars & Coffee (2nd Saturday of the month, La Encantada Mall).  We had the pleasure of meeting Blair in person and talked shop about his '69 Spider and Fiats in general for a while.  There were 3 Fiats on site - our '82 Spider, a 2013 500 Abarth (welcome to Tucson, Matt!), and a 2012 Pop.  I also met the president of the local Alfa Romeo club and am looking forward to getting together with him at some point in the near future.  There were several exotics at C&C and some great classic sports cars along with the traditional showing of "American muscle." 

If you haven't been to C&C it is worth going once in a while.  There are some cars you just don't normally see at a traditional car show.  It only lasts about 2 hours -- a grass-roots car show "flash mob" style.  By 10:30 AM you'd never know that there had even been a C&C gathering.

A Few Photos From the Best of France and Italy

There were a couple hundred cars on display.  To say the event was overwhelming would be an understatement.  So many cars I've never seen before or even heard of!  A crazy number of Alfas, and an equally alarming collection of Citroens.  Who knew they were still making the 2CV in 1985?  If you have never been to this event, you have to make the pilgrimage.  It was a 25 hour round trip for us, towing at 70 mph.  We were welcomed on Sunday morning with a pancake breakfast at a local body shop, and met some great people from the SoCal X 1/9 Club and FIAT America.com.  We rolled out en masse and made a strong showing in the FIAT camp.  There were a handful of exotics, but mostly people's pride and joy on display, warts and all.  Many of the Alfas were in race form.  After playing with them in video games for all these years, it was awesome to see them in person.  Two Lancia Scorpions showed, which was also a first for us.  Theresa had never seen another X 1/9 until the event, where there were probably 20 of them on display.