{"id":4634,"date":"2013-12-15T17:58:14","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T01:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rallyways.com\/?p=4634"},"modified":"2015-01-21T12:38:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T20:38:42","slug":"targa-trophy-road-rally-holiday-cruise-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rallyways.com\/4634\/targa-trophy-road-rally-holiday-cruise-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Targa Trophy Road Rally Holiday Cruise Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Targa Trophy hosts various road rallies throughout California and other Southwestern States during the course of the year. Come Christmas time, the Targa Trophy Road Rally Holiday Cruise and Food Drive is used as an opportunity to turn car culture into a fun charitable event.<\/h3>\n

If you go to the Targa Trophy website<\/a> and look up the events, you\u2019ll notice they publish information about the rallies, but the location of start and finish lines are not put front and center. I\u2019m guessing this helps control crowds as I\u2019m sure they don\u2019t want everybody and their mothers showing up at the start line to gawk at all the super cars. In fact, I know where to look and it still took me a while to figure out where to go.<\/p>\n

As for the checkpoints of the rally, those are actually undisclosed and they are given to the drivers and navigators just minutes before the start of the drive.<\/p>\n

\"CGT<\/a><\/p>\n

Luckily, I had my friends from Crowley Car Company<\/a> tip me off to a pre-meet earlier that morning at Cbad Cars<\/a> before the event. A number of cars including a Porsche Carrera GT, Porsche GT3 RS, Cadillac CTS-V, Mercedes C 63 AMG, a few Nissan GT-Rs and a Ferrari 458 were meeting there before heading up to Orange County for the start of the rally.<\/p>\n

That would be an easy undertaking as I\u2019m at Cbad Cars pretty much every Saturday anyway. The tricky bit would be following the group up to OC to capture some rolling shots of the super cars on the way up. Having sold my faster MX-5 NC<\/a> last week and still undecided about what fast daily driver to get into, I was driving my 1995 Miata<\/a>. A car, that\u2019s fun, but not very fast. Or rather, not fast at all.<\/p>\n

\"Nissan<\/a><\/p>\n