ZCarGarage and Z Owners of Northern California (ZONC) visited the amazing Canepa Design Museum and Showroom facility in Scotts Valley. We had almost 50 cars meet at the shop this morning!
The short drive to Canepa via highway 17 was fun with Z’s old and new everywhere:
S130, S30, Z31, Z32, Z33, Z34s and few Datsun Roadsters showed up too!
Everyone enjoyed visiting Canepa Design. We were treated to an extensive tour of the facility including the showrooms and and ultra-clean workshop.
I didn’t know that the Mercedes Benz 300SL was a full tube-frame car until today! Here is a fully restored chassis sans body:
This 1920’s Duesenburg was restored at Canepa. It’s extremely rare and possibly one of the most expensive cars in the world!
Canepa’s role in making Porsche 959s legal in the US also allowed them to extract more power too. Some of these cars are making more than 640hp! There were no less than six 959s at the shop:
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