The Tiger Eye Journal
By Chris Floersch
The new cars drew the crowds, but the cars people kept circling back to on Ocean Avenue were the classics. Two of them were parked nose to tail, hoods up and owners close by: a silver 1964 DB5 and a dark green 1971 DBS V8.
Read this one →
By Chris Floersch
On Saturday we started our Astons on the Avenue series, and every photo in it was taken on a phone. Phones are good enough now that the camera is rarely the problem. What makes a car show photo work or fail is where you stand, which lens you pick and what the light is doing. We learned a few of these the hard way on Ocean Avenue, so here's what we'd tell ourselves before the next show.
Read this one →
By Chris Floersch
Wednesday of Monterey Car Week belongs to Aston Martin in Carmel-by-the-Sea. On August 12, Astons on the Avenue filled Ocean Avenue between Monte Verde and Lincoln with Astons old and new, and of everything we photographed, one car pulled a crowd all day: a brand-new 2026 Vantage in a pale ice blue over bronze wheels.
Read this one →
By Chris Floersch
Built in Australia, brought to America by a U.S. Marine, bought back by an Australian family, and now shipped across the Pacific again: a 1951 Ford coupe utility that never quite stays home.
Read this one →
By Chris Floersch
A silver racer with a 1957 U.S. Forces in Germany plate, a two-tone coupe with its nose wrapped in tape, and a gloss-black 1600 Super. Three takes on the car that started Porsche.
Read this one →
By Chris Floersch
Trackside at Laguna Seca for the Peter Gregg Trophy: a field full of classic Porsche 911s, filmed from the front-straight fence and up close in the infield. Turn the sound up.
Read this one →
By Chris Floersch
A gloss-black Healey with a hand-painted 19, a driver in a very good mood, and a car born overnight at a London motor show in 1952 — from the Pebble Beach Road Racers paddock at Laguna Seca.
Read this one →
By Chris Floersch
Before the championships, before Le Mans, before the Datsun that made history — John Morton was just a kid in a Lotus Seven, taught by a driving instructor named Peter Brock.
Read this one →
By Chris Floersch
A rear-engine German racer built on Porsche's own hardware meets a supercharged British special built in someone's garage — two completely different roads to the same racetrack.
Read this one →
By Chris Floersch
A recent article in Classic Motorsports told Peter Brock's story of being 'front and center' at General Motors in the 1950's when the Corvette was in its design phase. (see https://classicmotorsports.com/articles/peter-brock-refines-the-c2-corvette/)
Read this one →