My friend Eloy and I took our Alfa’s down to Palm Springs for the Desert Concours car show. Eloy’s Alfa is a beautiful 1991 in a rich wine red color. He’s modified it a little, like the chassis stiffener, mini lites, and a free flow exhaust, and there’s my little silver model. We chased each other the whole way there. We cruised between 80-100. It felt great to let the cars stretch on the open road. Now what we discovered was that….my car is faster than Eloy’s. I’m not bragging or anything but he has the motronic system with high compression pistons putting out about 135 horsepower. He said he was struggling to keep up with me. I’ve recently been running mild race cams which start to come on at 4500 rpms, then at 5000 they just explode with power, at 100 mph the front end lifts and the cars just starts pulling, it’s such a great feeling with a little car that’s 30 years old.
The show was Sunday morning, we got there around 8:30am. What really made this fun was the ability to park on the golf course with all the other cars. Alfa was the featured marque and there must of been 50 Alfa’s. We all lined up with our shiny cars in all their glory. Sort of that proud parent feeling.
TZ’s, GTA’s, GTV’s, Berlina’s, you name it, it was there.
Aside from all the Alfa’s there was quite a collection showing. Dan Gurney’s race cars, a very early Lancia from 1926, A pair of Honda’s first sports cars from 1969. The usual 300sl’s, Aston Martins, and yes Ferrari’s too. Chad McQueen was there judging, and he had his Dad’s 911s.
I gotta tell yah, a great crowd, very low key and wonderful hospitality, will I be going next year? Absolutely!