Montecito 1877 Victorian
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& Going by James Buckley
The Montecito Car Classic
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Petersen Automotive Museum executive director Terry Karges and Michael Hammer (seen here inside the Hammer Foundation offices) plan to take this year’s Montecito Motor Classic to “a whole new level”
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t is nearly August and you know what that means? It means that September is right around the corner. Fewer than six weeks away. And you know what that means? Yes, that is correct, kids are back in school, but it also means the 4th Annual Montecito Motor Classic will be on at the end of the month. Last year’s gala and Coast Village Road car show brought in more than $100,000 for the Police Activities League and the Santa Barbara Police Foundation. Organizers are hoping for more this year and will likely succeed. To learn more about what exactly is in store for the Coast Village Road Classic, I sat down recently with Michael Armand Hammer, a car and art lover who moved to Montecito a few years ago and who has cemented his position here as a philanthropist
and community supporter, accompanied by Mark Alfano, chief of staff of the Armand Hammer Foundation, and Terry Karges, executive director of the Petersen Automotive Museum. It all started four years ago, when Monte Wilson launched his Cars & Coffee concept along Coast Village Road, seeking to reproduce a similar event he regularly attended back in the Washington, D.C., area from which he moved. As more and more car aficionados congregated at the every-Sunday event, talk developed about using the auto show to launch a fundraiser for a good cause. Then, Dana Newquist and Dolores Johnson got involved, and before long the concept of a car show in Montecito in conjunction with a fundraiser took shape. “People needed to understand it
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