Anyone have plans to go to the Cavallino Classic this year in Palm Beach? Has anyone been? This year is my first and I'd like to learn a little about it.
Now it is Canossa, superb https://www.cavallino.com/pages/palm-beach Are there any recommended transport services from West Coast? Thank you
Careful with Plycar. My old shop was next to their Pompano HQ and I lost count of the times I saw them unload/shuffle cars there and leave them outside. In fact, they do it so often they built a covered area to put them since there is a big homeless encampment across the street. Not a big deal if you are cool about them moving your car but if you want your car loaded and then not touched till it's delivered be aware.
I've gone every year since 1997. What would you specifically like to know? Do you want to go full boat or do you want to keep it reasonable? Do you like to just see vintage cars or do you like the modern ones? Are you into wine and cheese type socials, etc.? If you don't mind paying big, big money to stay at the Breakers (great grounds but average rooms) and basically be charged for every thing but the air that's the easiest way to experience the concours. There are lots of much cheaper and frankly just as nice options within a stone's throw. IMO the only thing really worth experiencing now is the Saturday concours and the Sunday multi marque show at Mar a Lago. No more track day worth seeing, the tour is a big "meh" (unless you like seeing the common, newer cars), no jet reception, etc. The Saturday Awards and dinner aren't worth it IMO. It's boring and there are many other better dining choices nearby. I'm not into the wine and cheese socials though so YMMV. If you enjoy vintage Ferrari's as I do might I suggest arriving Saturday morning at sunrise so that you can sit by the fountain and watch all the cars drive in and park on the lawn. that is always a highlight for me as I appreciate hearing them run and there is no crowds if you want to snap some pics.
you don't think that's probably a dirty little secret with all transporters? also probably more efficient for them to constantly be swapping 6 cars on the trailer than end to end for every car on every truck?
I think it's only a problem when they tell a client they won't do it and they they get busted. Had a good friend ship his car from NY to FL and I saw it sitting out in the rain when they promised him it wouldn't leave the trailer. I can vouch that in the 20+ years we used Intercity they never did that. To be fair though we were shipping vintage cars and not run of the mill 488's etc. Haven't used them in 15 years though so things might have changed.
That's not good. I know my 355 to Monterey switched trucks once, but then was direct on the way home. It doesn't melt in the rain though. I think most problems started with the son. The dad was a great FerrariChat sponsor for a long time and I never heard anything bad. The dad booked an entire truck for me Dallas to Miami for the FerrariChat 2018 event and then the son pulled the truck just a few weeks before. He wasn't even apologetic about it, left us scrambling.
Right now we are planning to bring a car to the Saturday show and display it. That is currently the extent of our plans. We live 40 minutes south of the Breakers so no need to stay anywhere. Is the Sunday show much different than Saturday? My plan was to fly back up north Sunday morning but may prolong the trip if it is worth it. Whatever opinions and advice you have, LMK. Thanks
i have gone for 10 years. i had my car judged there last year and we did extremely well, however the prices for gen admin are getting to the point where i can't justify the prices. if the price included a spouse ticket, it would be a different story....but....jeesh....it's a lot of money to walk around. outstanding display of outstanding cars, it's just crazy where the prices have gone. Paid thousands to get my car judged last year and it didn't even include a gen admin ticket for my wife????
I think the Sunday show is top notch albeit expensive. If you are only really interested in Ferrari you can skip it but if you like seeing different marques it’s worth going to at least once.
I agree. This will be the first year I won’t be attending on Saturday. I’ve pretty much seen everything already at past events so they’d have to really pull out an ace for me to drop $500 on a GA ticket. Thankfully I got to take my kids while they were growing up. At today’s rates there’s no way I can bring the family. Frankly, they probably don’t want me there anyways. The pricing is set to attract a crowd I’m not part of.
I don't think there was room for even one more person on the lawn. Maybe raise prices a little to thin it out a little? Have a much bigger space with cheaper tickets?
There were years it was so crowded you could hardly even get in. Last year wasn’t too crowded comparatively IMO. I think the price raise is more along the lines of trying to establish a “luxury” brand. It’s hard to market to influencers and the socialites if you have reasonable prices and grease monkeys like me get in. Think Birkin bag!
Thank you for the input. Going to just go saturday this year and if it all goes well I'll likely do Sunday next year too.
you're right, there wasn't another inch on the show field.....there's plenty of people with way more money than i have that attend....that's for sure....and i agree with you 100%....but it's such a stunning site to host the show....catch 22 situation...
I’m not going to proclaim to be an expert but I’ve been to Reliable’s depots in Detroit and Orlando and all the cars are kept inside.
my point was many times a car won't stay on the same truck from pickup to drop off, that doesn't make efficient logistics sense.
Definitely happens. Just had one of my cars change trucks in the middle of Texas during a cross country transport. Company had live tracking info and I noticed it spent some time off the beaten path in Texas. Once it arrives it was a different truck from what is what picked up in. Was also filthy.
