I don't have too much to add to Steve's pix, plus all the ones on on sportcardigest.com of both the Cars and Coffee on Saturday and the big show on Sunday.
But I do have afew observations:
Having now been to both Pebble and this, this one is very keen competition to Pebble. I will say it is about 7/10 of what Pebble is. One downside is that the cars are a bit close together, especially the big American cars from the 30s and Rolls cars, which benefit from wider spacing. I will say the price is a LOT lower to get in, and the parking is 1000x better than at Pebble.
The setting is very, very nice. Lots of old Live Oaks, draped in Spanish Moss. Beautiful sand dunes and beach in front of the Ritz. Not Pebble, but nice.
What Struck me was how heterogenous CSLs are. For instance, Craig Brody's CSL (Fjord with a stripe in the pix), has power rear windows, fiberglass rear bumper, no front bumper, and steel doors. So is his rear bumper and front bumper delete a later add on to what was otherwise a city pack car??? Nevertheless, Craig was invited to the big dance on Sunday and won a ribbon (about a third of all the cars in the show got some type of ribbon). I have been told (from a nameless BMW employee) that the build sheet on our cars is available in the BMW archives with all the details, but all they will divulge is the color, build date, and delivery city. I would like to restore my car to its original spec, but I have no idea what that is.
People love e9s, perhaps even more than they love a 911S, and that is now a 100-200k car.
Pitted chrome around the vent windows is the norm on our cars, since it is such a bear to take that apart, chrome it, and put it back again. Now I don't feel so bad about my pitted chrome. Bobby Rahals CSL has pitted chrome in that area, as does Craig Brody's.
The grand total was 3 street CSLs (including a BAT) plus 4 CS coupes plus the three race cars at Cars and Coffee on Saturday, then add Calder's CSL and Rahals CSL on Sunday, for a total of 12 different coupes, 8 of which were CSLs. Not too shabby for the east coast.
Hopefully, we will do it again in a few years.
RogerB, Dirk, and rsporsche all had coupe that would have come, but all were out service. So next time we will shoot for 15.
Scott