Car lovers, hang on to your driving caps: this Labor Day weekend, Surf City will play host to the first Santa Cruz Concours d’Elegance at Chaminade, drawing gorgeous luxury automobiles and muscle cars from all over the Bay Area like a giant magnet of cool and giving Pebble Beach one less thing to lord over everyone else.
The benefit for Children’s Hospice of Santa Cruz will take place Sept. 3-5 and feature all the necessary components of a sprawling lawn party: wine, good food, a fashion show, possibly an art show, maybe Rolls Royces. Definitely Ferraris. Almost certainly some beauties from the collection of Bruce Canepa. All that appear to be missing are the croquet sets and lawn whites.
“It’s still in the preliminary stages,” says Chaminade sales director Sherrie Huneke. “We just came up with the dates. Hopefully this will be something that goes on year after year, but we’re just getting our feet wet.”
The idea, hatched by people at Chaminade and Ocean Honda, comes from the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance held each August on the Monterey Peninsula. Unlike that annual advertisement for the lifestyles of the rich and famous, however, this show will include muscle cars. So start polishing the GTO, kids. It’s showtime.
