You spot the coolest cars during Monterey Car Week – but not always where you expect to find them.

It goes without saying that you’ll see fabulous, and in many cases, otherworldly cars, trucks, and bikes at Monterey Car Week’s major events, like the Pebble Beach Concours D’Elegance, the vintage racing motorsport reunion at Laguna-Seca, Concorso Italiano, and the big German car meets, plus the dozen or so other meets and shows going on during The Week.  This is why they’re great, and this is certainly why I attend and participate.

One of the tastiest elements of the whole shebang for me is that the streets of Monterey, Pebble Beach, Carmel By The Sea, Pacific Grove, and Salinas are otherwise just crawling with great hardware all the time, day and or night during this magical week.  Any parking lot can become a pop-up car show; so even if you don’t care for the “big events” or their husky ticket prices, you can still enjoy the magical Monterey Peninsula, albeit with heavier traffic than usual, and a constantly cruising cornucopia of cool cars.  Here’s just a few.  I could bore you with more, but hopefully you get the hint by now.