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When you're around great vintage cars all the time it's easy to get just a little jaded. But every year, without fail, Pebble Beach brings out the kid in me. The smell and the cacaphony of C Type Jaguars and GTO's at Laguna Seca; The Pebble Beach Tour blasting into downtown Carmel on Thursday morning; being on the 18th fairway at 6am as the sun comes up and giddy owners drive their cars to their place on the lawn. Not to mention The Quail, McCall's party, the weather, etc. It's all a great feast. If you'd like to see a selection of the photos we shot of the aforementioned events, drop us an email and we'll send you a small sampling.

Not too long ago we acquired this incredible 1942 Ford Super Deluxe Woodie Wagon for our private collection. It had had a storied southern California past (including ownership by Warner Bros. Studios and Ry Cooder!) and best of all, it still had its original wood. We simply could not pass up this rare opportunity to own a piece of history. We've been driving this great wagon regularly and took the opportunity to show it, along with the Bentley above, at the annual Greenwich Concours. A great time was had by all!

Vintage tours have become immensely popular, and no wonder. It's a chance to get your car out on some great roads along with some great people. In June we participated in the 14th annual running of The New England 1000, put together in grand style and with great organization by Rich and Jean Taylor. We brought along one of our inventory cars, a gorgeous 1958 Jaguar XK150 Roadster. Despite a driving rain the first day and challenging, frost heave-ridden Canadian roads, the Jag performed without fault. Next up for us is Rich and Jean's "Mountain Mille" in September and we're looking now for the right car to take along. If you want more information on these tours and help finding the right car to participate with, give us a call.

When we sold the fabulous XK120 M Roadster pictured here to Bruce Aronson, we had no idea... Bruce mentioned that he was going on a "little tour" with the car. Master of the understatement, what he meant was that he was taking the Jag to Italy to run in the world famous "Italia Classica": a 10 day, 1000 mile tour through southern Italy. This wonderful XK, a former national show winner, and maybe the best driving example ever in our inventory, did us proud by completing the tour without a hiccup. All of this while in the company of some of the rarest and most valuable sports cars ever assembled: Ferrari GTO, Lagonda Rapide, Alfa 8C, BMW 507, and an AC Cobra to mention but a few. Hats off to Bruce for using this wonderful car as it was intended!

A very rare thing happened a few years back at Pebble Beach: Woodie wagons used to be the domain of surfer dudes and only the most eccentric collectors. How things have changed. At the 2003 Pebble Beach Concours d"Elegance a special class was created for Woodies and Nick Alexander, friend and customer of deGarmo Ltd., won first and second in class with his amazing cars. The Marmon Herrington four wheel drive pictured here is one of only two left in existence and it was restored by Nick's own staff of woodie craftsmen.  Nick bought his first woodie from us about 10 years ago, a 1947 Sportsman. Since then he has assembled the most complete collection of Ford and Mercury woodies in the world. Woodies have finally entered the mainstream of collectibles, indeed, values have doubled in the last 3 years. Not only are they an essencial iconic piece of American culture, they're just totally bitchin'.