Who doesn’t love frozen Cars & Coffee?

As I prepped for Cars & Coffee with frost on the grass this am I wondered how many other gear heads were into this?

It was the first event after the holidays and had a nice attendance ~50cars or so.

nice ls430

Thanks for this post today.  Realized I had no clue if there were any around me, so I googled and found that there was one going on as I was sitting here on my ass!!

So I drove over to it.
Some nice, if overly expensive cars.  Got to be about leaving time and I was strolling to my car and I heard someone talking about how expensive all the cars were and how "not really my thing, I never paid more than $1000 for a car" and I immediately detoured on over to hang out with them.  Three guys that have all been to the Challenge at some point.  One of them talked about how much fun it was and how much he wanted to come back.

In reply to 84FSP :

Damn, I miss Fuel Coffee and their biscuits & gravy. C&C is great in the Sunshine State, but Cincinnati is still probably my favorite to attend. Glad to see everyone's still meeting up there!

Nicely done Mr_Asa!  Glad you got out to meet some new peoples.  Saturday morning chatting cars the with the crew and lusting over cool stuff people bring really sets my weekend off.  

To RobertElder, It's changed over to Tabogo from Fuel with a change of ownership.  Alex kept all the good stuff from Fuel and brought in Columbian Arepas to go with the coffee!  

Went to Cars and Coffee this morning in OKC, it's supposed to be 8-11. Drive in with a few Twins and my buddy with a new Supra. 

We got there about 7:45 and there were already 375-400+ cars there.

It was 34° when we arrived.

When I left around 9 the OKC PD were already there to make sure people weren't leaving like shiny happy people, the 2nd cop gave me a thumbs down for the BRZ! Haha

Nice on almost 400 cars.  We have a couple in town but the one I like the most is never more than 100 or so cars.  It's kind of the GRM run what you brung crowd where something odd will eclipse the excitement around any of the normal super cars that show up!  That's about what we had for temps as well.  Everything outside was covered in frost and wiffee says "You aren't going to go freeze at cars n coffee are you?"  Me "Uhh yeah".

Our local C&C used to run all winter.  It was hosted by a shop, so during the winter everyone typically hung out in the shop drinking coffee and ignoring the cars outside.  They stopped the winter ones when COVID hit and haven't brought them back yet though.  I think they ran something like April through October this year. 

84FSP said:

We have a couple in town but the one I like the most is never more than 100 or so cars.  It's kind of the GRM run what you brung crowd where something odd will eclipse the excitement around any of the normal super cars that show up!

That makes me wonder if there's a similar "off-brand" C&C around me.  There's a pretty big one, but it's up in the "expensive" part of NoVA, I tend to feel a bit self-conscious attending with my "beat up" track rat stuff.

z31maniac said:

... I left around 9 the OKC PD were already there to make sure people weren't leaving like shiny happy people...

I guess my definition of "shiny happy people" needs reexamination. I though that doing a burnout at a car event would be about the last thing this group would do.

Holy Motor and TURBO on that SN95 Mustang! Good lord.

Very cool and you never know who you'll meet at one of these events. I planned to hit two during the holiday week, but I got sick and had to cancel. Soon, though. 

In reply to 84FSP :

Wow, your pictures are a blast from the past. I haven't lived in the Midwest for 5 years but one morning while visiting nearby Cincinnati for a errand, I looked up a place to grab a coffee. To my surprise there was a Cars & Coffee happening there. It was a great atmosphere so I'm glad to see it's still going strong. 

Absolutely - as I was pondering if others also did the arctic C&C I was remiss and didn't get many shots of the cool stuff there.  Will follow up with some better shots next week.

In reply to 84FSP :

As a friend recently said after a local BMX meet-up: I was having too much fun and forgot to take pics.

And zero fault there. (I was with him and can attest.)

I have started attending more cars and coffee type events now that I have kids.  It isn't really my thing but the kids love it.

I am going to one at a race track this Sunday with this hilarious disclaimer, "It can be (very) dusty. If your car cannot handle some dust and dirt you may want to sit tight and wait for our next Cars & Curves event in February."

kb58 said:

z31maniac said:

... I left around 9 the OKC PD were already there to make sure people weren't leaving like shiny happy people...

I guess my definition of "shiny happy people" needs reexamination. I though that doing a burnout at a car event would be about the last thing this group would do.

Many at C&C events like to endlessly rev their unmuffled exhausts, full thorttle acceleration runs on the streets around the parking lots, etc. 

This was the first event like this I've been too in a decade because I don't care for all the asshattery that typically follows. But the vast majority of people were pretty chill.

You know, one of my most memorable autocrosses took place on a cold, cold day–like, we had patches of ice in the lot. Just something about everyone out there together when we could have been home and warm....

Another nice session just above freezing!

I will have to let you know next weekend, our C & C is scheduled for the 21st.  Might be pretty frosty might be 50 degrees.

I run hot and cold regarding C&C events. On the one hand, I like the total randomness of what shows up. In SoCal at least, it can range anywhere from an authentic Model T, to a rat rod, to an Enzo. If I recall, one time there was a street-legal (somehow) Porsche 917. And of course, over-the-top hotrods. Sometimes though, some car club will roll in, all identical other than color and wheels - the price of "modifying" new cars instead of doing real actual work on an older one.

I've been in Kansas City (home) and St. Louis (extended family). Both are good. 

STL rotates to different locations. There are more attendees, plenty of young people, and you see everything from a teenager's project Honda to a Lamborghini Huracán Performante.

Kansas City is a little lower key, there are 2 locations which are both associated with the KC Auto Museum. So you see attendee cars and museum collection cars. There aren't as many attendees or modern exotics, but you do see a lot of interesting classics and enthusiast builds. 

I should drop down for one of these

kb58 said:

If I recall, one time there was a street-legal (somehow) Porsche 917.

It may have been a kit.  I know a guy who has a 917 kit on a Beetle chassis.  Hasn't run in a while, but when it was last running, it had a Mazda 12A in the engine bay.