Monkton Trifecta Garage Crawl

WHAT: TECH Event – Garage Crawl “THE MONKTON TRIFECTA”
WHEN: SATURDAY, May 11th, 8:15 AM to 11:30 AM
WHERE: Monkton, MD

REGISTRATION:
Will open 7:00 PM EST Friday April 5th on MotorsportReg.
CLICK HERE to register

This event will be limited to 35 cars with 2 people per car maximum (i.e. 70 people)
The cost is $5 per person

Note that this is not your PCA account.  If you do not have a MotorsportReg account, then you should set one up in advance of the registration day as our Garage Crawls sell out very quickly. You will need to register every driver and passenger who will take part in this event.

QUESTIONS: If you have any questions contact the Tech Chairs- Randy Richter, Rick Hawver and Jim Earlbeck, at tech@pcachs.org

DETAILS:
So, what exactly is a Garage Crawl?  Think pub crawl, but without the booze and a lot more cars. Your Tech Team works throughout the year to find interesting personal garages for Chesapeake to visit. We’ve visited large garages that contained more than 170 cars and none of them were driven, we’ve seen garages were the owners had several restoration efforts in process, we’ve seen garages that had 4 cars in them even thought they were only 2 car spaces and we’ve seen some garages that had massive art work while others had none.

Chesapeake’s Garage Crawls are extremely popular for many great reasons. Sure, the cars the fantastic, but more uniquely the Garage Crawls give us the chance to see what a person values in a car and to contemplate why it is important to them. Often it will make you reflect on what is meaningful to you.  The Garage Crawls also allow us to see how others embrace the automotive lifestyle. The Monkton Trifecta promises to deliver on all fronts. We will visit three separate collections that total more than 100 cars! The first and third garage have many different marques- Porsche, Buick, Ferrari, Ford, Cobra, Maserati, Citroen, Mini, Chevrolet, Singer, RUF and others that you may not even be aware of.  The second garage has nothing but Porsches. Sadly, that owner has the brains of a squirrel and is not very creative! All three collections are dynamic. Cars enter and exit these collections, so we are not going to guarantee anything. We can say that all the cars are worthy of your time and that you can learn from what you’ll see.  The first collection has cars that pre-date the standard order of gas pedal on the right, brake in the middle and clutch on the left.

Chesapeake PCA has visited these garages before.  If you have seen them, then please delay your registration a bit to allow others that have not been to them to have first crack at registration.
The Monkton Trifecta will take place in Monkton to the west of Jarrettsville Pike and east of I-83, a little north of Jacksonville.  The distance from the first garage to the last is less than 7 miles. To preserve the privacy of the collections, neither the owner’s names nor the locations will be announced in advance. Only those that have registered through MotorsportReg will be provided with the addresses. Historically we provided the address of our gathering spot and handed out directions to the garages at the gathering location. This time will be different. Registrants will be given the address of the first garage. We will meet there to reduce the time spent going from one garage to another and maximize the time spent at the garages. We will meet at the first garage at 8:15 AM Saturday May 11th. At 8:20 AM there will be a launch meeting. This event will not include Tech’s usual coffee, donuts or gift certificate. The launch meeting will also review the rules of this event which include-

No public release of the address of the facility
No public release of photos and/or videos. That includes not only the cars and boats, but the inside and outside of the facilities. Attendees are permitted to take photos, but only for their personal use.
No public release of the owner’s name- either first or last.
No public release of the types of cars or memorabilia.
No food or drink at the facility.

There is nothing new about these rules for our Garage Crawl events.  Our ability to have future Garage Crawls depends on our ability to treat each facility with the respect that it deserves. Please remember that you are visiting someone’s home. While this may not be where they live, it is their home, it is where their heart is. We are their guests.

You may sign up for the lunch social at Inverness Brewery when you register for the garage crawl. If the garage crawl is sold out you are still welcome to come to the lunch social – see separate Inverness Brewery lunch social registration.