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Cars and Coffee Irvine Pictures in Black and White

by Danny Cruz

Cars and Coffee Irvine Pictures in Black and White

The combination of sensory overload at Cars and Coffee Irvine makes waking up at four in the morning a non-issue. The more you attend, the more you see things you didn’t know were there. The details make it special and these details are impossible to absorb all in one morning.

Let RallyWays show you a new perspective with our Cars and Coffee Irvine Pictures in Black and White photo essay. 75 fine images from one of the world’s best car gatherings. Go on, take your time. Read the story after the slideshow.

  • Cars and Coffee in Black and White Slideshow Cover
  • Porsche 356 SC
  • Badges on a Classic Porsche 356 - Porsche 356 Registry
  • Porsche 911 Headlight Mesh
  • Pouring Coffee
  • The coffee line
  • Porsche 911 GT3 RS in Black and White
  • Porsche 911 Carbon Fiber Wing
  • Porsche 997 Headlight Close Up
  • Hood Louvers
  • Alfa Romeo GTV Grille
  • Ferrari F355 Badge
  • Ferrari F355 Rear Deck Lid
  • Mitsubishi Evolution X in Black and White
  • New Rules at Cars and Coffee Irvine
  • DeTomaso Badge
  • Early Porsche 911 in Black and White
  • Old Porsche 911
  • Shell Gasoline Badge
  • Brand New Porsche 991
  • Porsche Lineup
  • Classic Jaguar Roadster
  • Jaguar Driver's Club Emblem
  • Faces at Cars and Coffee Irvine
  • Cockpit in a Classic Bugatti Roadster
  • Historic Bugatti Automobile
  • Roush engine
  • Shelby Cobra Cockpit
  • Supercharged Miata NB Engine
  • Custom NB Miata interior
  • Mazda MX-5 Miata NB
  • Corvette 468 Hood
  • Chrome Bumper Corvette in Black and White
  • Shelby 289 Badge on a Cobra
  • Honda NSX
  • Bikes at Cars and Coffee
  • Ferrari Testarossa
  • BMW Isetta 300
  • BMW Isetta 300 Badge
  • BMW Isetta Steering Wheel
  • Mercedes 300SL Convertible
  • Fully Custom Mazda Miata NB
  • Lamborghini Aventador Open Door
  • Classic car
  • DeTomaso Pantera in Black and White
  • Pipes of a DeTomaso Pantera
  • HEMI Badge
  • Gills in a HEMI
  • Original Mini Bus
  • Original Convertible Top Tag
  • Jensen Interceptor in Black and White
  • Corvette C7 in Black and White
  • Porsche 911 Whale Tail
  • Classic Chevy in Black and White
  • Cars and Coffee Entrance
  • Fisker Karma in Black and White
  • A View Thru the Trees
  • Triumph Motorcycles Sweater
  • Classic Pre-1973 Porsche 911
  • Original Dodge Viper
  • Ford GT Wheel and Tire
  • Acura NSX
  • Classic Jag in Black and White
  • Porsche 911 Impact Bumper
  • Classic car at Cars and Coffee
  • Porsche 911 in Black and White
  • 1972 Corvette
  • Mazda Headquarters
  • Classic GTR
  • Mazda Miata Speedometer
  • Leather driving gloves
  • Center console - Porsche Carrera GT
  • Rear hatch on a Porsche Carrera GT
  • Ferrari Badge
  • Lamborghini Murcielago Interior

The thing about C&C Irvine is, it moves along very fast. Too fast to keep up. This might not seem the case for those that attend every week. However, for the first timers, and even those that attend once every few months, it really is a blur.

Cars rush in promptly around six in the morning. Stunning car after stunning car rolls in and the lot fills up quickly. Soon, the entire lot is overflowing with priceless machines. Next thing you know, it’s eight-thirty and people start rolling out. By nine-thirty, the lot is almost empty. Everything seems to happen all too quickly. Not enough time to take it all in.

RallyWays attends quite often. We’re not there every week, but we’ve covered the show enough times during the last two years that we decided we wanted to try a new perspective on our photography. That’s when the idea of creating this photo essay of Cars and Coffee Irvine pictures in black and white. We dedicated the entire morning to shooting these in a series where the photos themselves tell the story.

Today, the air is brisk. This entire photo essay was captured in only one morning during a cold winter by Southern California standards. At six in the morning, when most cars begin to arrive, the fog is dense – so dense that it is almost dangerous. The clean and polished cars arrive wet from the fog. Since there is no brick and mortar coffee joint nearby like there is at Cbad Cars, picnic tables are erected with Starbucks’s best drip, donuts and pastries. The regulars flock to the coffee while the newbies and photographers are left to gawk at the vast array of priceless automobiles.

Hundreds of cameras tour the show – some professional and countless hobbyists. It’s hard to get a clean shot with all the automotive appreciators constantly inspecting every nook and cranny. This makes for some creative photography. Photo closeups of grilles and headlights become useful as do candid shots of those dedicated enough to be at a car show at dawn.

Who goes to a car show at dawn on a Saturday morning? Seriously. Chances are, if you are reading this, you are one of these dedicated car enthusiasts that prefer the smell of petrol in the cold morning air over a cozy bed with a naked spouse.

If you understand the joy that comes from looking at rows and rows of classic Porsches, the prospect of using up one of the only two mornings you have to sleep in would not sound so far-fetched. Don’t like 911’s? C&C Irvine hosts countess marques like Ferrari, Lamborghini, McLaren, Jaguar, Aston Martin, Bugatti, Triumph, Rolls-Royce and so on. Can’t name them all, but you bet they are there.

Not everyone likes C&C Irvine unfortunately. Mostly those that get turned around. While no Studio 54, “bouncers” will ask a selection of cars to turn around and park at the nearby multi-story. This usually precedes screeching tires and smoke coming from a rather upset visitor that probably spent 5 hours polishing his ride the previous evening instead of living out the typical Friday night.

No real criticism of the organizers. They have to do what they have to do, otherwise many really special cars would not make it in. Generally, cars less than 15 years old are more susceptible to being sent away. The more doors the worse are the chances. Too bad the Mitsubishi Evos fall in this category. A number of very nicely-built Evo IX and X’s often gets sent away. The one you see in the photo essay happened to think ahead and likely arrived at five in the morning. That didn’t save him from getting a printout with the rules tucked under the windshield wiper.

We do our best to attend Cars and Coffee Irvine once a month or anytime we feel it’s time to be overloaded with automobile excellence. For those of you not lucky enough to live so close to such a word class motoring event, you have us to bring you the high points. Enjoy the photo essay. We purposely shot these photos with this story in mind. We also purposely built this photo series in a style quite different than what we typically create.

Seventy five pictures is a lot of pictures. We wanted to convey an entire experience and we felt anything less wouldn’t be enough. Honestly however, this piece was originally going to be titled, “100 Photos from Cars and Coffee Irvine in Black and White” but we started trimming it down. The end result is the images you see in the slideshow which we are very proud of. In which case, enjoy our 75 masterful images! Until next time.

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RW Fleur

Filed Under: Car Culture Tagged With: Car Meets, Car Photography, Car Shows, Cars and Coffee, Classic Cars

Danny Cruz

Publisher of RallyWays, Danny Cruz is resourceful creative designer, writer and photographer. He loves cars just as much as he loves the sea, boats & playing music while drinking double lattes.

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