It's Saturday, and the parking lot of Mazda's Irvine, California, headquarters is filled with everything from McLarens to vintage pickup trucks to a phalanx of Porsches: It's Cars and Coffee. This week, Nissan trailered in its sweet IDx concept cars, and we're hearing some Saturday in the not-too-distant future will see Mercedes uncork a few of the rides from its nearby restoration center. But we're here today, and there was plenty of cool stuff to see—check out the most interesting cars below.
Nissan's IDx NISMO drew a strong crowd with its retro BRE race-car paint job.
Nissan also displayed the IDx Freeflow, its white and flax coloring meant to represent a person wearing khakis and a white T-shirt. Or something like that. Let's just be thankful it's not something more odd.
It wouldn't been right to have the Nissan IDx concepts at Cars and Coffee without an example of the car that serves as their inspiration, the original Datsun 510.
This is sooo Southern California, a Ford Woodie topped by a surfboard.
McLaren MP4-12Cs are basically blasé at Cars and Coffee. As are Lambos. But we're not complaining or anything.
Porsche row, a weekly sight. (Alternate, rejected caption: HAI, GUYS, LOOK AT ALL THE VWs.)
Sandwiched between sports cars, a hulking 1930 Ford Model T woodie.
We can all agree that the Ford GT40 looks the best in Gulf colors, right? This is universally accepted?
This Shelby GT500 was once a Hertz rental car before being stolen and stripped for parts. Happy ending: The pieces were recovered, and the car has now undergone a complete and very nice restoration.
Marty Rubin and his dog Petal came in his Oldsmobile 442 on a top-down day in Southern California. (Polar whatsit, now?)
It's written into U.S. federal law that any car gathering anywhere in the country must include a DeLorean. Seriously, how are there so many of them?
One of two T-Rex three-wheelers on hand; it has a six-cylinder BMW engine and its body was designed by Paul Deutschman, who also does Callaway's design. (Fun fact: A T-Rex test vehicle we had once spun out—during straight-line testing.)
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Lotus Elise! Lotus Elise! We miss these things.
Just what every vintage Toyota Corolla needs: a Vette small-block. You think the car understeers?
Once upon a time, this was a telephone company van. It is most definitely not that now, after Slim's Fabrication has done its thing. It's dubbed the Wheelie.
The Wheelie features a Chrysler-based blown V-8, making somewhere north of 500 horsepower. Yes, it's routed forward, and then aft. And, yes, it works.
In complete contrast to the Wheelie's engine, here's an impeccably detailed and diminutive four in a Volvo 122 Amazon.
Sandwiched between a hotted-up Mustang and a McLaren MP4-12C sits an unrestored Toyota Stout pickup truck with 1960 Wyoming plates.
Young entrepreneur Macie Heiland used Cars and Coffee to sell Girl Scout cookies in front of her dad's 1946 supercharged Ford.
Like sand on a beach, another McLaren MP4-12C.
It's an ORANGE-OFF: Who wore it better? The McLaren above, or this Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder?
Sitting at the head of the GT-R table was this 1972 Skyline. We immediately dubbed it the coolest car on the grounds.
It looks like a van rear-ended an old VW Type III sedan at high speed, but this is actually a Type 147 Fridolin, one from a series of postal vans VW made for the Deutsche Post. The last time we saw one of these was a couple of years back at the Concours d'LeMons.
Flip up the doors on a coke-white Lamborghini Countach 5000S and you are guaranteed to draw a crowd. And maybe a DEA tail.
One of BMW's most elegant designs ever, the 3.0 CSL coupe.
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We were sad to find out that this classic belly tank lakester wasn't driven to Cars and Coffee. This one is powered by a Ford flathead V-8.
The Zagato-designed, South Africa–built Perana Z-One is as rare as raw steak.
Another rarity, one of Gerry Weigert's Vectors, the cars that promised so much but never, ever delivered.
Morgan's 3-wheeler is amazing and the best. We highly recommend driving one—or at least checking one out in person.
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