Weekend Driver San Diego

One-eighth mile street drags are returning to the Qualcomm Stadium parking lot Friday night as good folks from RaceLegal hold their regular meets. From the group’s website: RaceLegal.com, the safer and sanctioned track alternative to illegal street racing, was developed with one goal in mind. Saving the needless loss of young lives to an illegal [...]

Check out this story from Fox 5 San Diego. It was bad enough that the county booted out Cajon Speedway in 2005, the land is still sitting empty and might not be developed for another five years… or ever! According to this story, the county has “environmental issues” and is trying to get $32 million [...]

If you’re an off-roader, I’m told that this is the weekend for you to head out the Truckhaven Hills, just north of Ocotillo Wells, east of the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. It’s the 50th annual Desert Safari from the Tierra Del Sol Four-Wheel Drive Club. Read more»

One of those great little spots has closed. Our webmaster Geoff came back from lunch the other day and said the European Deli, on Park Boulevard north of Polk. Although the name was “European,” it was a Greek cafe, probably because a Greek woman named Sophie ran the place. She seemed to know all the [...]

If you’ve got some time this weekend, head down to Qualcomm Stadium for the annual Big Three Parts Exchange, which is running through tomorrow (Sunday, Feb. 26). Taking up about half of the massive parking lot, the exchange has everything from rusty fenders for a ’23 Model T to owners manuals, cars for sale and [...]

It’s one of my favorite movies and favorite drives. Back in 1963, it seems every old comedian got together with Spencer Tracy, Ethel Merman and director Stanley Kramer for It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, a 153-minute romp around the Southern California countryside. And where the movie starts, where Jimmy Durante goes flying off [...]

A nationally recognized, nonprofit program designed to curb illegal street racing could shut down by month’s end unless it finds a new sponsor or gets a reduction in fees, its leader said. Since 1997, RaceLegal.com has attracted 120 to 200 racers for its twice-monthly meets on the four-lane, eighth-mile strip on the west access road [...]

One of the great old places in California, Clifton’s Cafeteria in downtown LA, is undergoing a renovation. When it opens again, hopefully sometime next year, it’s worth visiting. Read story from LA Times»

Just finished the gnoche at Cremolose in the Gaslamp. Very Italian but very different. Next time no dinner, just dessert. Check it out in the old SD Hardware, 840 5th.

Cruisn’ Grand is one of the great cruise nights in Southern California. From April to September, classic cars, hot rods and anybody else cruises down Grand Avenue in Escondido. This Sunday, Feb. 19, there’s a fundraiser to support the program. From 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., cars cruise in the daylight. Go to their website [...]