{"id":459367,"date":"2000-11-01T17:00:13","date_gmt":"2000-11-02T01:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=121850"},"modified":"2024-02-14T10:55:01","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T10:55:01","slug":"best-laid-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/best-laid-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Laid Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I don\u2019t know about you, but I\u2019m big into planning. Whether it\u2019s working around the house, restoring a racecar or going to a race, I like to have a game plan. The problem is, I seem to always be overly optimistic as to how long any given task may take. On any given weekend, I may plan to tear down a motor, rebuild a Hewland, organize my tools, install sprinklers in my front and back yards and spend some quality time with the family. In the end, I\u2019m usually just tired and pissed off that I didn\u2019t make my \u201cplan.\u201d Ain\u2019t it great to be \u201cType A\u201d?<\/p>\n

So, I suppose that it shouldn\u2019t have come as any great shock to me, that when Ed McDonough and I set out to cover all the events associated with this year\u2019s Monterey Historics that we would be pushing the edge of the scheduling envelope a bit. Each day we\u2019d launch out the door at 6:00 AM and wouldn\u2019t step foot back into the hotel until well after midnight. For the dyed-in-the-wool car junky, going to Monterey is not unlike dropping a heroin addict in a Tibetian mountaintop poppy field \u2013 Too much to do, too little time. Throughout the course of the weekend, we did four days at the track (you gotta be there on setup day, right?), the Concours Italiano, the RM auction, the Brooks auction, the Christie\u2019s auction, the Blackhawk Collection display, a couple of parties and, of course, Pebble Beach. We might have been alright if we hadn\u2019t tried to throw Pebble Beach into the mix.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n