The History of Cars & Coffee with Legendary Car Guy, Barry Meguiar Cars just have a special appeal to some folks. Young or old, wealthy or not, doesn’t matter what race, nationality or religion… for some guys (and gals – yeah sex doesn’t matter either) the sound of nice car’s exhaust can be as universally appealing as certain genres of music. Do a Google search for Cars and Coffee and you’re very likely to receive results for small unofficial and barely organized local events on a Saturday or Sunday morning where local car buffs get together. They’re passionate. Have to be because many of these car shows start as early as 5:30AM! The bond that ties is automotive. And while some are specific to a segment of car – super cars/exotics, low-riders, muscle, antique, etc. Most are open to anyone who loves cars. You don’t have to own one to show up. It usually doesn’t cost anything to show up anyway. Just enjoy cars and company… maybe have a coffee too. Tom has a conversation with legendary car guy Barry Meguiar about how this, now global phenomenon, got its start right here. Crystal Cove in Orange County to be exact. ***Transcript*** Recording date – November 21, 2017 Barry Meguiar: The good news is that we created a phenomenon that people from all over the United States, even the world came to visit. It became that famous without any PR publicity. It became that famous and those people went back to their regions their homes and around the world and said I want to do this here. Right. And so now we have I think something over 80 different Cars and Coffees around the world I'm very proud of what happened here and the impact it's had around the world to bring opportunity for car guys to come together and share their stories and share their love for each other. It doesn’t matter, you love cars, you’re having fun hanging out. It doesn't matter how much money you have, it doesn't matter the color of your skin, doesn't matter what language you speak, doesn't matter if you're a guy or gal. If you're a car guy you’re car guy. Tom Smith: Welcome to iDriveSoCal, the podcast all about mobility in the automotive capital of the United States, Southern California. I'm your host, Tom Smith, and today I'm joined by automotive legend, Mr. Barry Meguiar. Barry is president of Meguiar’s Car Care Products. He is the host of Car Crazy TV, which is a global television show, been on the air for almost 20 years. Just this year he was inducted into the Sema Hall of Fame and he's one of the original participants and promoters of the unofficial car show that has really swept the entire United States and really in multiple countries around the world, Cars and Coffee. Barry, thank you so much for joining me today. I'm excited to meet you and have the opportunity to sit here and speak with you. Barry Meguiar: Great to be with you Tom. Tom Smith: First, just an overview of Cars and Coffee as it started here in Southern California. Barry Meguiar: Well it did. Yeah. It was actually in an area called... it's identified as Crystal Cove. It's on the coast of Southern California, Orange County, just south of Newport Beach, north of Laguna Beach if you know that area. And it was kind of a new shopping center that went in, and just across the highway you're looking at the ocean so palm trees and all, kind of a small shopping center. And we started... we didn't call it Cars and Coffee at that time, we called it just Crystal Cove. You're going to go to Crystal Cove. It was the insider thing, you know? And Southern California's kind of full of car guys so it's not... I mean you just kind of wave at somebody you have a crowd. And so we kind of filled that shopping center pretty quickly and just started this camaraderie. And that went for several years and then unfortunately the Irvine company had everyone saying it was the Irvine com...
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