Hi Gang:
Just got back from the tour of the Pacific Coast Highway. We shipped 13 Cobras from north Texas to San Jose (and San Francisco) in two car transports. We met up in San Jose and drove to San Diego over the next 5 days with stops in Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Santa Monica and Del Mar.
I have to tell you, the attention garnered by 10 plus Cobras driving down the highway or pulling onto the Santa Barbara Pier is amazing. My wife said it was like being on a 700 mile parade. My favorite reaction was by a bike rider in Santa Monica who stopped and watch all our cars roar down a canyon road toward PCH. We were last in line...his simply laid his hand over his heart...nuff said.
Thanks to Francis, we even got to ride in Skip Barber Mazdas (with instructors driving) around Laguna Seca. We thought these would be parade laps but turned out to be amazing duals between three of four instructors who were doing what I would call hot laps.
The views of the line of Cobras climbing the sweeping curves around the Big Sur section of PCH are hard to describe...just breathtaking.
This is a big time bucket list adventure!
Jerry
Cars in front of the hotel on Cannery Row in Monterey
Cars on the famous 17 Mile road around Pebble Beach
Cars on the Santa Barbara Pier where we had lunch
Some of the gang at a restaurant in Santa Monica where a local Cobra guy set up a great dinner at a local "celebrity dive"
