Monterey Car Week is a festivity of the luxuriousness , carrying into action , and historic import of definitive automobiles . The domain ’s most peculiar exotic cars are seemingly everywhere , line residential streets andspeeding along at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca . Lost somewhere between the glitzy and glamorous railway car show , auctions , and awe - inspiring grumble of the historic races is something much more bare-assed , engaging , andreal . No one bang about it , and it ’s among the cool thing at Monterey Car Week .
Welcome toDusk Patrol .
There ’s a dream , shared by many an enthusiast , that we might see the behind - the - scenes thaumaturgy of these machines without anogling crowdgetting in the way of our enjoyment of them . In my version of the dream , the sun is setting , and the afternoon fog is returning as a group of men unloads , position , and shrink - wrapper a invaluable appeal of Ford GT40s on a grassy bluff . In the corner of my middle , one of just three house of cards - roofed Ferrari 330 P4 prototypes , of immensurable worth , is put down from a flatbed truck . Opaque sheets cover a dozen more car of doubtless provenance scattered about the lawn …
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Only , it ’s not a ambition .
It ’s the reality of what we ’re calling Dusk Patrol , an unadvertised – and far more impressive – foil to the much - ballyhooed former - morning parade of classics bang asDawn Patrol .
It’s not on any list. There are no invitations.
It did n’t even have a name until right now ; it ’s not a ratified portion of the weekend . No one get laid about it because it ’s not on the agenda , and there is n’t an occasion at Pebble Beach that ’s truly secret anymore … except for Dusk Patrol .
Head to the 18th fairway at 4pm
Attending Dusk Patrol , aka " the set - up hours for Pebble Beach , " is as light as designate up to the 18th fairway of the Pebble Beach golf course at around 4 pm on the SaturdaybeforeSunday ’s Concours d’Elegance . We name it when we take place to be amble about the club ’s talkative grounds , looking for an entirely different , contiguous event . The weekend in Monterey is overabundant with activities take place around the peninsula , from seaside Carmel to the track further inland .
No matter where you are , you ’re going to see something interesting during Car Week – buthowinteresting depends onwhenyou see it .
It’s probably the mosthumanelement of Monterey Car Week
Most of the events in Monterey lionize motorcar by putting them on both literal and metaphysical pedestals , rather than letting owners state their stories and interact with fans . Dusk Patrol is a moment during which you may find out owners , their friends , and their cars ' handlers preparing for the show , place up museum - qualityobjets d’artthat go on to be cars . They move one into berth , and then it ’s on to the next one , primp these hypercars , race cars , and one - off road cars as if they ’re board being dress for a banquet . It ’s arguably the most human component of a weekend saturate with unobtanium and those who find it .
It’s a quiet moment of automotive solitude
It ’s the most amazing matter that happens all weekend . We ’re ring it Dusk Patrol ; you may call it what you require , but please do n’t spread out the word of this awe-inspiring , quiet moment of automotive purdah .
It can be our little closed book .
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