Monterey Car Week 2015 – Day 3 - Top Speed
What is it about those special cars. the way the lines catch the sun in just the right way. It’s the kind of stuff that drives the passion, pushing someone to retrace a historic race through the forest or fork out a bit (or a lot) too much money to have that one sweet ride sitting in his garage. These are just some of the things that make Monterey Car Week so powerful. Friday saw me cover two of them, including a gaggle of historic Ferraris. Historic Ferrari Race Ferrari and the state of California have a long history together. The marque first planted its American roots on the West Coast, and some of the earliest can be traced back to Pebble Beach, where between 1951 and 1956, the prancing horse developed its racing chops among the cypress trees of the Del Monte Forest. owned by Jim Kimberly. Early on, the 166 established itself with impressive competition success, trouncing the competition at Palm Springs in its very first West Coast race in 1951. The car looked poised for a repeat just a few weeks later at Pebble Beach, but it was... As the race progressed, Kimberly ordered lunch and set a picnic table by his mangled Ferrari to watch the remaining laps. The car was. Source: www.topspeed.com
