Concours d'LeMons: The creme de la crud of auto shows - Monterey County Herald
Seaside >> In a week of posh events featuring the most-expensive and most-exotic motorcars in the world — Bentley, Rolls Royce, Ferrari, Maserati and duPont — the Concours d’LeMons is, as the French might say, the creme de la crud. The annual event at Laguna Grande Park is a showcase of vehicles you can’t drive through the main gate of your local country club. Some have bedsheets or beach towels for seat covers. Richard Julian, a Carmel resident, sat among plastic banana plants on the flatbed of his 1956 Ford 350 stake truck, wearing an island shirt and a straw hat from an old “Gidget” movie. He inherited the hideous (but still functional) yellow work vehicle from his father-in-law, Alfonso Sosa, who used it back in the day to haul bales of hay. “When I start this thing up and try to take off, I have to put it in second gear, because first gear is too powerful,” Julian said. It’s a work in progress, and the neighbors seem to be OK with it for now, but I think they’d probably appreciate it if I moved on. ”. Equally crummy, in a lovable kind of way, was the ‘94 Ford Escort station wagon — chalk-colored — that Seaside’s... Source: www.montereyherald.com
