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Pasadena-to-Monterey Car Tour
| When: |
8:00 AM on Sunday, August l4 |
| Where: |
Art Center’s Hillside Campus at 1700 Lida Street, Pasadena |
| Registration: |
The entry fee is $200 per car with a $1000 tax-deductible donation to Art Center’s
Transportation Design Department’s scholarship fund.
For applications and further information, contact: Martin Swig, Amici americani della
Mille Miglia at 145 Mitchell Boulevard, San Rafael, CA 94903,
mswig@californiamille.com, or 415-479-9950. |
Fresh, Interesting Designs
What does a 1930 Citroen C4 have in common with a 2011 Cadillac Coupe? “Both are
examples of fresh, interesting designs,”says Stewart Reed , Chairman of the
Transportation Design Department of Art Center College of Design in Pasadena,
California. “And those are exactly the kinds of cars we’re expecting for a two-day,
Pasadena-to-Monterey drive.”
The first annual event will leave the celebrated design school on August l4, 2011, via
picturesque and challenging country roads, arriving at Monterey on August l5 in time
for Pebble Beach’s weeklong homage to classic cars.
Organizer Martin Swig and Reed will judge cars on their “significant design merit”
regardless of age or make. “Our legendary friend David E. Davis, Jr. said it best,”
revealed Swig,”when he told us he liked everything--- except ‘boring cars.’ ”
Boring Cars
What would be boring? “A Nissan Juke would fit the Unaccaptable Category. Its design
message is confused” said Swig, organizer of the California Mille and an auto
journalist. “Add to the Boring List the ‘improved’ Chrysler Airflow. The original
design was well ahead of its time, but Detroit decided to blunt the front end to make it
more more popular--and it lost its design edge,” said Reed.
Design Worthy Cars
Some twenty or more more “design worthy” cars are expected to meet at Art Center’s
Hillside Campus at 1700 Lida Street, Pasadena, at 8:00 AM on Sunday, August l4 , for a
departure breakfast. The group will then caravan north some 507 miles passing
through Palmdale, Gorman, Frazier Park and Taft, arriving at the Paso Robles Inn
about 5 PM for the night. The morning of August l5, the tour will continue its back
roads passage to Monterey by way of Bradley, Coalinga and King City enjoying a
welcoming margarita at the Baja Cantina in Carmel Valley with Photography Major
students from Art Center recording the arrival and festivities.