I been waiting for this too. I'd like to know asap cuz if it's Alfa, I gotta get started on a car that is eligible for the historics since they won't take my race car.

 

I just looked at CI's site and they have Alfa Romeo down as their featured marque. No updates on the Historics site yet.

 

They did Alfa Romeo at Concorso Italiano a few years back. Also, I just got off the phone with a good source of info telling me Alfa Romeo is gonna be the featured car at Pebble Beach as well. It almost makes it a for sure thing they'll be at the track as well.

 

No announcement as yet. I called General Racing and they are at Lime Rock and won't be back until 9/13. I e-mailed them and asked them to let me know as soon as a decision is made.

The next Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance is slated for Aug. 21, 2005 and will spotlight Alfa Romeo, the 100th anniversary of Delage and 75 years of Pininfarina.

 

Man, that sucks.

Every year I go, traffic gets worse and worse. To get into the Concorso back in 1992 was about 15 minutes. The last four years it has gone from one hour to almost two hours this year.

Then, to get into Laguna for the Historics on the Saturday usually takes about an hour, with prepaid tickets and a Corral parking pass. I swore, after this year, that I wasn't ever going to go again. Or, if I do, it will be with Jay Leno in his helicopter (I don't know if he has one, I made that up).

But! With Alfa as the featured marque, I guess I'm duty bound to go .... with my Alfa. Shucks. Now I wish I had a vintage Alfa to race with.

Isn't a 17-year old Alfa vintage enough? No?

Drat.

 

Too bad that all that is left of Alfa in the US is ARDONA... I imagine with the distress FIAT is in, the museum will have a very small presence.

 

Yes, but it is also a perfect opertunity to re-introduce Alfa to the US :

 

Yes, but it is also a perfect opertunity to re-introduce Alfa to the US :

Cheers to That!

 

Man, that sucks.

Every year I go, traffic gets worse and worse. To get into the Concorso back in 1992 was about 15 minutes. The last four years it has gone from one hour to almost two hours this year.

Then, to get into Laguna for the Historics on the Saturday usually takes about an hour, with prepaid tickets and a Corral parking pass. I swore, after this year, that I wasn't ever going to go again. Or, if I do, it will be with Jay Leno in his helicopter (I don't know if he has one, I made that up).

But! With Alfa as the featured marque, I guess I'm duty bound to go .... with my Alfa. Shucks. Now I wish I had a vintage Alfa to race with.

Isn't a 17-year old Alfa vintage enough? No?

Drat.

Nizam,
It's easy....get a GTA instead of a F355!

 

Yes, but it is also a perfect opertunity to re-introduce Alfa to the US

I'm not holding my breath for that!

Ciao,

 

Nizam;

I don't know what time you rolled out of bed, but if you use the Reservation Road entrance to Blackhorse around 7 in the AM, it took about 15 minutes from the start of the line.

 

We were a mere 30 minutes behind you ... and it took us 1hr 48 mins this year

Perhaps we should have just stayed in Monterey on Thu night, but since we live only an hour twenty minutes away, we figured we'd just drive there like we do every year. It seems that everyone started arriving right around 7:00 and 7:15am and after that, it was just chaos. A few of exotic old cars got stuck on the roadside with the hood up (most probably overheating)... AND getting ticketed by the traffic cops for illegally parking.

Let's hope things work out better for 2005, or else, there are rumors of FCA (Ferrari Club of America) not showing up at all next year.

 

mere should have been MERE. Did you come in through the back way off of Reservation?

 

I Just logged off the Concorso web page......www.concorso.com

Alfa-romeo ...is the marque..in 2005...it is confirmed.

 

Any word on the featrured car @ the track?

 

Hmmm... How much are flights over there?/

 

The Italiano Concorso for 2005 is featuring Alfa Romeo - http://www.concorso.com/. The Laguna Seca site - http://www.laguna-seca.com/ or Monterey Historic site - http://www.montereyhistoric.com/ do not list the 2005 marque just yet. Given that the Concorso is doing Alfa, it seems like a long shot the Historics would be doing Alfa as well.

I would say Alfa is a good bet for 2010 as it will be 100 years old.

 

Pebble Beach is Alfa too.

The people from General Racing, which run the Historics, won't be back until the 13th. Their office is in Buellton.

 

Pebble Beach is Alfa too.

On the other hand, the more the merrier. Maybe I'll make the trek. Should I tow the Super with the Spider or the other way around?

 

On the other hand, the more the merrier. Maybe I'll make the trek. Should I tow the Super with the Spider or the other way around?

Or throw a roof rack on the Super?

 

Or throw a roof rack on the Super?

Now THERE's an idea!!

What a bonehead I am... I totally missed the first page of this thread. I should know better than to think I'd be the first to know something (re: my post, up a couple).

 

Convention and then Concorso

****, this is gonna be a lot of driving next summer.
Caravan to Seattle, back home and then back up to Monterey.

Gotta do what you gotta do.

Doing both in 1 trip would be a pretty cool summer, 30 days on the road. Alfas to Alfas.

 

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