{"id":911,"date":"2012-09-20T06:24:15","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T14:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/?p=911"},"modified":"2012-10-22T09:41:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T17:41:25","slug":"2012-wavecrest-woodie-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/?p=911","title":{"rendered":"2012 Wavecrest Woodie Meet"},"content":{"rendered":"

A road trip from Santa Cruz to Encinitas is always daunting. Especially in a 75 year old car. At some point you must pass through the belly of the beast that is Los Angeles. These days the LA suburbs begin somewhere north of Santa Barbara and continue south to the Mexican border. There\u2019s no \u201cgood time\u201d anymore to pass through it.<\/p>\n

The Wavecrest Woodie Meet<\/em> is worth the trip. Held each year in mid-September, it\u2019s a good time to be on the road in California. The kids are back in school, the tourists have turned in their rented motor homes, and the weather is as good as it gets. I changed the oil on my \u201938, repacked the wheel bearings, and hit the road.
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On Thursdays, Encinitas hosts a downtown cruise-in. There were lots of woodies already in town, along with local cars like these:
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Friday morning a number of us meet at San Onofre for the annual Santa Cruz vs So Cal surf-out. We\u2019ve been getting together for years and this was one of the best. It was pushing 90 degrees on the beach with water in the 70s, glassy conditions, and chest high waves.
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After the surf contest it\u2019s back to Encinitas to grab a parking space in the Wavecrest lot. In recent years they’ve allowed woodie owners to move in on Friday, the day before the actual event.\u00a0 This has turned into a mini-party of its own and by sundown the lot is nearly full of cars tucked in for the night.
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Festivities are underway at the crack of dawn on Saturday.
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I passed this Rolls Royce just north of Goleta on my drive south. He was doing about 45 and had a couple of great looking dogs for company.
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Corbin Taylor\u2019s chopped, flathead-powered shoebox has been around for years. While a lot of woodie people don\u2019t \u201cget it\u201d this car has always been one of my favorites. It\u2019s on the market for around $75K.
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Parked on a side street, this \u201946 had beautiful wood and a color I liked:
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Mike Bauer\u2019s \u201949 is another of my favorite shoeboxes. It\u2019s a Bay Area car and also currently on the market. I hope it stays close to home.
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I left for Santa Cruz Sunday morning before dawn and, without pushing it, made it home in under eight hours. This was a pit stop in Los Alamos.
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A road trip from Santa Cruz to Encinitas is always daunting. Especially in a 75 year old car. At some point you must pass through the belly of the beast that is Los Angeles. These days the LA suburbs begin somewhere north of Santa Barbara and continue south to the Mexican border. There\u2019s no \u201cgood […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shopnews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1I3Pf-eH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}