Monterey Car Week’s can’t miss events each year in mid-August include a most outstanding and outlandish bash that’s always at the Monterey Jet Center. Gordon McCall is the man who produces this fun fest.
Gordon McCall’s Motorworks Revival
By fun we do mean delicious food and libations. We’re talking some of Monterey’s most epicurean eateries catering the affair for an immense crowd of car and charity and vintage airplane loving celebrants, all gathered to party in honor of the unofficial start of Monterey Car Week.
We say unofficial since Gordon McCall’s party is on Wednesday night. Several thousand vintage racing fans have been in the Central Coast for several days by Wednesday, what with the Monterey Pre-Historics vintage races at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca the weekend just before Gordon’s affair.
There are no doubt a half-dozen other automotive events before Mr. McCall’s mid-week launch of Monterey Car Week takes place, which is why Monterey Car Week is the greatest automotive enthusiast themed week of the year. The fact that all of these events are in Carmel and Monterey and Pebble Beach and Laguna Seca, makes Monterey Car Week the epic series of automotive spectacles that it is.
Gordon McCall’s Motorworks Revival at the Monterey Jet Center is a low key affair, set amid several airport hangers at the Jet Center. For one night, this modern airport is transported back in time to the days of propeller driven WWII and WWI aircraft, with some modern corporate luxury jets thrown in for good measure and nightly tours by the partiers. Of course, we didn’t mention the main draw for Gordon’s party — all manner of way spectacular vintage through exotic and every point in between of great automobiles are on display. If you like photographing great automobiles almost as much as you enjoy driving and working on these machines, as we do, you’re in nirvana on Monterey Car Week Wednesday night.
The staff of Monterey Car Week always gets to the Jet Center early. We like to get a lay of the land and to especially photograph all the cars and airplanes that are on hand before the party goers get to the scene. Cool automobiles look much better without a bunch of people standing around them, even if there are trendy party animals walking around.
In years past, we have seen many automotive luminaries, some movie and television stars and also the great Mr. Don Shula, former NFL football player and NFL Hall of Fame coach for the Baltimore Colts and the Miami Dolphins. We saw Mr. Shula again this year, but just said hi to him briefly.
As you can see from all our photos, we had too many great photos to take to worry about doing much socializing. So, without further adieu, why don’t you too stroll the photographs with us and contemplate going to Gordon McCall’s Motorworks Revival yourself? We guarantee it’s more fun in person, but checking out this website is a close second. Enjoy!
