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The Santa Cruz Woodies Club received a special invitation to participate in the 2015 Hillsborough Concours D’Elegance held on the beautiful fairways of the Crystal Springs Golf Course in Hillsborough, CA. on Sunday July 19. Started in 1956, the Hillsborough show has the proud record of being the longest continually running Concours in the world. Displaying cars in the WW …

The start of the 21st annual Woodies on the Wharf weekend was very special indeed. 130 years ago in the summer of 1885 three Hawaiian princes, David Kawananakoa, Edward Keli’iahonui and Jonah Kuhio Kalaniana’ole, who were in California to attend boarding school, introduced surfing to the U.S. mainland. The three Hawaiian princes surfed Santa Cruz’s San Lorenzo River mouth — …

The weather gods smiled on the Santa Cruz Woodie Club Ohana as we ventured out on May 16th-National Drive your Woodie Day-for our annual Spring Cruise. Two days earlier the dry and drought stricken Bay Area was hit with a low pressure weather front which gave us some much needed rain but potentially could have caused problems for those of …

Part of my responsibilities as your national Woodie Club Western Rep is to attend and network with other woodie enthusiast. This may seem like a large task, but it turns out it is just plain fun. Doheny Wood, in my humble opinion, is the second best event on the woodie calendar. (You know #1) This year’s trip started early Friday …

Woodies in the Valley has always been a great venue for a woodie get together.   This years event started out with the woodie “cruise-in” Friday night which was held at the local A&W drive-in.  Just like in the good old days, woodie owners were getting together to see old friends, talk about the cars and get your favorite fast food. …

S0-CAL WOODIES BRING THE ALOHA SPIRIT TO THE SHOW The Grand National Roadster Show, formally the Oakland Roadster Show, is held the last weekend in January each year. The LA County Fairplex opens its doors for hot rods, customs and motorcycles from all over the world. The highlight to most would be the crowning of Americas Most Beautiful Roadster. To …

For the 22nd year, the Club gathered to celebrate the installation of new officers for the coming year. The event got started off with Happy Hour followed by a wonderful dinner prior to starting the program for the evening.  Out-going President Rowland Baker welcomed all and thanked those who had worked so hard to make the past year, highlighted by the 20th Annual …

Well, it was another great gathering for the Santa Cruz Woodies Ohana this year in the Good Wood reserved section at the Goodguys West Coast Nationals! We kicked the weekend long event off early thanks to Toni Wilkerson for hosting a great Mexican Fiesta Open House at her home on Thursday evening! Folks bellied up to the bar to greet …

The Santa Cruz Woodies Club was invited to participate in the 8th annual “Carmel-by-the-Sea Concours on the Avenue”, held during the ten day, Monterey Peninsula’s Collector Car gathering. We met outside of Carmel with five other cars and fellow members of SCWC (President Rowland Baker, Loren Steck and Annette Yee, Joe and Arlene Solis, Dave Welles, Rod Kleman, Mick and …

This was the BIG one, the 20th Anniversary Woodies On the Wharf (WOW) Santa Cruz Woodie Club members worked hard all year to make it an extra special WOW and boy was it. The Wrap Party is our Club’s traditional way of celebrating that success and thanking all of those who worked so hard to make it so. The party …