[TR] Pre-Historics

[TeriAnn J. Wakeman]

wbeech at flash.net wrote:
> Teri,
> Pardon my ignorance, but what are the pre-historics?
>   


Sorry, there are the Monterey Historic races at Laguna Seca:

www.montereyhistoric.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monterey_Historic_Automobile_Races

This is one of the premiere historic races in the world where factories 
of the year's featured marque empty out their museum to display  their 
historic vehicles, and often show new models for the first time.  It 
costs gobs of money to attend Saturday and Sunday of the races and there 
are great crowds of people.  Where you see such cars as Mercedes W196 
streamliners & 300SLR when Mercedes is the featured marque or the Jag 
XJ-13  or Barny Oldfield's Ford 999 driving around the race track.

The pre-historics take place the weekend before the historic races.  Its 
a chance for the same invited race cars to get an additional weekend of 
racing in without the big crowds.  It is an unadvertised event and a 
chance to see the vehicles & chat with the owners without the crowd and 
where people can just be people.  Even if the guy you're chatting with 
does own a couple 250 Testarosa's and maybe a DB2R.

Monterey car week is a strange time when rare exotic cars driven on the 
streets might outnumber toyotas (at least in my dreams) and this year 
there will actually be a rally in Pacific Grove on Friday that features 
Triumphs.

www.montereycarweek.com/Events.html

Maybe its just that I live nearby that it is my favorite week of the year.

Teriann