Three days before our scheduled tour of West Coast Customs, they had to cancel our event

due to last minute scheduling conflicts.  It was a mad scramble Wednesday afternoon but

we were able to miraculously line something up and line something up BIG.   The Day Family Classic

Cars is a private collection worth over $9 million.  Tom and Diane Day are huge automotive

enthusiasts and have spent years collecting incredible cars from the early 1900's to current

muscle cars.  It was not enough to just own the cars, so they built a 33,000 sq/ft "museum" to

display their cars and over $3 million in memorabilia.    This facility is not open to the public and

it took some major string pulling to get our 57 members in for a tour at such last minute. 

Thankfully it all worked out and I only lost 2 handfuls of hair.

Raj, Rolf, Eddie and Dave

Larry and his son

Luke, Jan and Rolf

Group shot at Day Family Classic Cars

Ed, the curator, was AWESOME !  He gave us a great overview of the Day Family and shared

some great history on many of the cars inside.

We didn't get to tour West Coast Customs, but got to check out their display inside the museum.

Joel and Lori

It wasn't enough to just have the cars, they also collected the memorabilia and created

"scenes" for the cars

Al and Tom, standing in front of the re-created hamburger stand that Tom and Diane first met.

Larry

Eddie

George and Rolf

Larry and Ed

Nora and Ron

Jan and Luke

Lance and Lori

Jeff and his brother Rich

Leo and his son Jake

Mike and Cheryl

Guy

Jerry, Paul and Randy

Pam and Paul

The Flickingers

Jay, Anthony, Eddie and Dylan

Jen and Jeff

Diane and Melissa

Nino and Ruth

Ray

Krispy Kreme delivery car

Steve and his cousin Paula

We went around to the back and checked out their "garage"

As you can see, it is really an extension to the museum, but an actual working garage

Hot rod with wheelie bars

Men in black.  Anthony, Ray, Gary and Brent

Bruce and his son in law, Layton

Yes, they even had Andy Griffith's Mayberry

Complete with Floyds barber shop

Ed finished our tour with quite a treat.  He climbed in Rusty Wallace's  NASCAR Ford Mustang

and started it up.  It made everyone JUMP !!

After a great tour, we headed over to Hidden Valley Golf Club for lunch.

The weather was PERFECT as we sat out on the patio and ate delicious tacos overlooking the course.

Eddie and Dave then headed out to play 18.  Hit them straight and long or you will pay the price !

Thank you all for understanding and supporting today's event, even with the last minute venue changes.

It was great to see everyone and even better knowing that the money we collected for the tour was donated

The Orange County Children's Hospital.