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Monterey Car Week is just around the corner!

It’s that wonderful time of year again!

Monterey Car Week officially starts this week on Friday, as the Pre-Reunion at Laguna Seca starts up for the drivers who need some practice before the big weekend! There’s a HUGE amount of events coming up over the week too. The Mecum Auctions in Monterey, The Concorso Italiano, Exotics on Cannery Row, and Pebble Beach are all happening next week, and I have no idea how I’m going to go to them all! Of course, I’ll be going to the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion; I haven’t missed one since I came to the Bay Area!

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The year’s poster for the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, featuring the famous race cars of the Nissan brand.

This year, we’ll all be celebrating the racing history of Nissan (or Datsun depending on how old the cars are!), and some of the cars from the various racing periods the Japanese car maker participated. The Nissan ZX-Turbo GTP car will be at the track again as one of the showcase cars, as well as the ex-Paul Newman Datsun 280ZX Turbo and the legendary Nissan 300ZX Turbo driven by Steve Millen. And of course, who can forget the Brock Racing Engineering Datsun 510? Pete Brock will also be present at the Reunion, so I’ll see if I can get a photo!

Stay tuned!

-W

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Change is afoot!

 

I’ve decided I’m going to make some changes to this blog!

So far, I’m thinking about consolidating my separate store for prints with this blog, so that potential buyers won’t have to be redirected outside of the site. Before, I was using Visual Society  to sell some of my photos, but to be honest, I’ve only made a handful of sales since last year. Convincing people to buy a print is harder than pulling teeth sometimes!

The plan now is to have a dedicated store right here on the same site where visitors can buy and download digital copies of some of my work, for personal or commercial use. This would be a great way to advertise some of my services as a Freelance Photographer too! Imagine being able to make your own prints of one of my epic shots from Laguna Seca!

Here are some other things I’m considering:

  • More articles and stories: I’m always off on some random adventure, whether it’s driving a new road, visiting a new place, or attending another car show; I’d like to write about it more. I’m pretty sure I’ve got more than a few things to write about! I’d also like to write about cars that interest me, like strange and random one-offs and prototypes that never made it past the pre-production stage.
  • VIDEOS: I recently just upgraded my WordPress account, so now I can host videos! I’ve got plenty of videos I’ve never shared outside of my Instagram!
  • Adspace: I know, not everyone likes ads. Hell, I almost never turn off my Ad Blocker when visiting other sites. I’ve got to keep the lights on somehow though, and selling adspace on the site is a manageable way to do it. I promise there won’t be any weird stuff. Unless you’re into that. I’m not judging :).

Stay Tuned!

-W

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SUPER-MASSIVE UPDATE

These last couple of months have been super busy since the last time I wrote about what I’ve been up to, so here’s a CliffsNotes® version of recent events!:

Events:

In other news:

  • Blackhawk is officially over: Last month the former show-runner for Blackhawk Cars and Coffee Tim McGrane left the Blackhawk Museum and joined the Sports Car Racing Association of the Monterey Peninsula as their new CEO. Without him running things, and with the problems they were having since last year, the Blackhawk Museum decided it was the curtain call for the now-legendary gathering. It was such a shame too; where else could you see pre-war sports cars mixing it up with a stanced Subaru BRZ?
  • Canepa may be following Blackhawk: There are rumors abound that Canepa might be ending its bi-monthly Cars and Coffee event simply because it’s gotten too big for its venue. While that makes sense, I hope they decide to find another place to host it instead of outright closing the gathering down. However, now there are other options…
  • Monterey Cars and Coffee has become The Laguna Seca Cars and Coffee: with Blackhawk canceled and Canepa one foot in the grave, this new gathering is poised to become the biggest thing since Betty White! And with the newly-minted SCRAMP CEO Tim McGrane calling the shots, its poised to get even bigger. The last show I went to even broke 400 cars; and this was during a track day!
  • I have officially ascended: I am now the proud owner of a 2003 Mazda Miata Shinsen Version. And it has a stick! Now I can actually participate in shows! Still need to fix it up though…
  • New Job: I got a new job, so now I’ll be able to post more often instead of getting home at odd hours of the night and not having the energy. This is great, because I’ll need the energy for the next Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion and the Porsche Rennsport Reunion VI!

Stay Tuned!

-W

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