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Keith Martin
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Keith’s Blog: A Day of Cars and Boats
Last Sunday, the 25th annual Collector Car and Boat Show was held in Lake Oswego, Oregon. That’s a suburb of Portland and about fifteen minutes from my condo. It is organized by the nonprofit Oswego Heritage Council. One-hundred percent of the proceeds go to the Council, whose mission is to preserve and interpret Lake Oswego…
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Keith’s Blog: Monterey Postscript
I gave myself an assignment for this year’s Monterey Car Week. While I am familiar with the term “influencer,” I have never actually followed any. So while I monitored the goings-on in Monterey on social media, I clicked “follow” whenever a post by an influencer popped up. (I defined an influencer as someone who had…
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Bookends
Stuttgart and Abingdon, happy together I have a pairing I’d like to run by you. The first choice is a 2005 Porsche 911 C4S. As you’ll recall, I bought this car last December. The second pick is a 1964 Austin-Healey 3000 BJ8 Mk III, which I more recently acquired. Each car cost me just over…
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Keith’s Blog: Were You Watching Pebble Beach?
I’ve been going to the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance for more than 30 years. For a few of those, I was the emcee for part of the morning activities, interviewing owners who had cars entered. I have to confess that watching the livestream on YouTube actually gives me a better perspective on the field. (Not…
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Keith’s Blog: The Best Monterey Guide
There may be many “Guides to Monterey,” but the SCM one is the best. It’s our 21st year of producing it, and in its 106 pages you’ll find event descriptions, hot tips and even recommendations on where to eat. Download it here. Monterey has changed post-pandemic. The past few years have seen a new generation…
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Keith’s Blog: Down on Main Street
Last week we began the story of driving our Porshe 911 C4S from Portland 244 miles down Interstate 5 to Grants Pass, OR, population 39,194. We were headed to Cruise The Rogue, the revival of a weekend-long car show that started in 1980, but had been dormant since 2020. The weekend is produced by Main…
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Keith’s Blog: The 911 Meets an Animal Burger
Grants Pass, OR, is a city of 40,000, 244 miles south of Portland. The Rogue River, famous for its whitewater rafting, runs through it. But I wasn’t aware that it had a car culture that stretched back to 1988. So when information about car show named Cruise the Rogue popped into my inbox, I was…
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Keith’s Blog: 52 Years in the Forest
This year marked the 52nd annual Forest Grove Concours d’Elegance. It is the longest running concours in the Pacific Northwest, held on the bucolic, tree-lined grounds of Pacific University. This concours has a mission. Every dollar raised goes directly towards Rotary Foundation Scholarships for students in the Forest Grove, Banks and Gaston school districts. To…
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Kindred Spirits
David Gardner with his hand-controlled Porsche 996 Tiptronic. Photo courtesy Raymond Thompson Jr., WVU When I bought our 1991 Alfa Romeo S4 Spider in February 2022, the seller claimed it had 21,917 original miles. I had no reason to doubt that, as when the car arrived it looked like it had been well taken care…
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Keith’s Blog: Bonding with the 996 C4S
Even though our 2005 Porsche 911 C4S came into my life on Dec. 22, 2025, when my son Bradley delivered it to me as a 75th birthday present, I haven’t had much of a chance to drive it. My time has been spent deaccessioning our 1971 Jaguar E-type V12 coupe and 1975 Porsche 911S Sportomatic…