One of the best Southern California car shows happens every Saturday morning in the parking lot of Ford's Premier Automotive Group headquarters in Irvine. While the weekly show -- dubbed "Cars and Coffee" -- takes place at a Ford property a wide variety of vehicles show up and the weekly "theme" for the show can range from Ferrari to Chevrolet. But this past Saturday the theme was indeed "Powered by Ford" and as expected a goodly number of Blue Oval iron showed up. Included in the festivities was a collection of 20 Ford GTs, one of which being our own long-term Midnight Blue model. All eight Ford GT colors were represented, though ours was the only blue one on site (there were several red, a couple black and Tungsten, and one each in white, yellow, silver and the Heritage colors).
Of all the Fords on hand my favorite (after the GT, of course) was a 1970 Boss 429 Mustang in Grabber Blue with a white interior. It looked all original and had a four-speed "T-handle" jutting out of the center console. I consider these cars the "Superbird" of Ford's muscle car era, and would love to pick one up (if it wasn't for that pesky $200,000 price tag on most of them these days...). Plenty of Porsches (including one Carrera GT), Corvettes (several 427s) and even some vintage Mercedes (saw a Gullwing) were running about, too. Considering the price of admission (FREE), the collection of collector cars at this show is never a disappointment. If you're in the vicinity stop by some Saturday morning between 7 and 9 a.m.
Karl Brauer, Editor in Chief, Edmunds.com @ 8,560 miles
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