More Car Weekend Stuff

One of the big events in downtown during the car weekend is the RM Auction at the Portola Plaza hotel. There are always a few cars that get auctioned for multi million dollar prices.

This year, what looks to be the prize exhibit is the blue Ferrari at the back of this trio of Ferraris ready for the auction block.

The RM folks take over the customs plaza area with cars, and have a chain link fence up so they can charge $40 to get inside the fence and close to the cars. Typically, their most expensive lots are in the hotel lobby, which they can't charge for, so I go check that out (hence the photo below) and stare through the fence at the rest of 'em.

There are a lot of fancy road cars in town, complete with your typical older white (though typically tanned) male and frequent younger trophy wife in the passenger seat - off wining and dining at swanky events around town.

Below is such a gentleman offloading his Lambo from the truck that brought it to Monterey. He took about 20 minutes to carefully offload the car from the bed of the truck, then got his female companion to drive it the 50 yards down the road and into the hotel valet parking lot. I wonder if the car ever really gets driven?


There's a new fancy hotel in town this year, so I decide to go check it out to see if any of the spots in front of the hotel (where the fancy cars typically get put) had fancy cars. I wasn't dissapointed. They have around 8 spots - six of them had Lambos in them. Most of the Lambos had Michigan plates, so I'm not sure if that means that they were actually factory cars or not - a little strange, but cool to see all those cars none the less.
It should be a fun weekend.