January 14, Saturday, 10am – Nethercutt Collection. - Flash! The gates of the year fling open with aplomb straight into the arms of the Nethercutt Collection. Please be ready to go at 10am as we will have a guided tour of their preserved treasures including exquisite automobiles of the 1920's & 1930's, antique furniture, clocks, watches and one of the world's finest collections of Mechanical Musical Instruments. After the tour we will meander across the street to the museum housing over 130 classic cars, a 1937 CP Royal Hudson steam locomotive and a 1912 Pullman Private Railcar. - Lunch will follow at the local Casa De Pizza or other greasy spoon.
Address: 15200 Bledsoe Street, Sylmar, CA 91342 - 818 364-6464 www.nethercuttcollection.orgFebruary 12, Sunday, NOON – Nixon Library - Museum - The CCC will the Nixon Museum Goldwater, HUAC, Studebaker, Haldeman, Liddy, Mao, Pepsico, Kennedy, Ambasador Hotel, Kruschev.... Pat, Apollo, Saigon join us Tricky Dick Library and you'll
Address: 18001 Yorba Linda Blvd, Yorba Linda, CA - www.nixonlibrary.orgMarch 18, Sunday, 10am - A Door & Window Clinic Of Another Kind. The CCC gets unhinged at Zach Taylor's BBQ haven. Nestled in Eagle Rock we anticipate another door & window clinic with a French twist. This time we will install a French Pane sliding door into a Ford Econoline van & a double hung sash window in the back of a DS station wagon. This will all make sense as the club feasts on BBQ & pot luck in the back yard of Zachs beautifully landscaped craftsman estate.
Address: 2334 Las Colimas Ave, Eagle Rock, L.A. CA 90041 - 323-258-8288April 15, Sunday, 11am - The AGM in Griffith Park - Show your face & defend thy self! The annual club meeting of innocuous decision. Participate or observe as the feathers fly & mud be slung while members clamour for position & climb the rungs to the top.Outward genial ferocity ultimately soothed by scrumptious picnic in an idyllic setting beneath the hallowed boughs of the Gene Autry Museum in Griffith Park.
Address: 4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA 90027 - 323.667.2000 - www.theautry.org south end of the Gene Autry Museum Parking lot. Bring a picnic lunch! Lost - call Steve Hammond to get loster 818-383-2286May (date TBA) Saturday, 11am - Wende Museum (Dr. Strangecar or How I Stopped Worrying & Learned To Love The Citroen) - The CCC adds a P to the mix as it journeys west to reach the east. Step into a time past, a time of dark suspicion & long shadows cast by skulking silhouettes, cloaked figures & daggers in bootsheels. Coded messages & escape plans crackle on shortwaves as we play The Citroen Who Came In From The Cold. Follow the encryption below to find out more. By accepting this mission you are awarded 00 status as you reconstruct the connective lineage of Citroens, espionage, the cold war, & governmental overthrow while a nuclear doomsday machine looms overhead. www.wendemuseum.org
Address: 5741 Buckingham Pkwy #E Culver City 90230 - 310 - 216 - 1600June 21-24, Rendezvous 2012 at the Pierpont Inn - Ventura, CA - Once again the Pierpont Inn prevails as an optimum host for this year's Rendezvous. This year come early for an optional Thursday night stay (at $85/night - why not!) to take advantage of THREE full days of merriment & excitement & a full schedule of activities including museum tours/caravans, car rally and of course, our banquet dinner with a prize for the winner of the Rally! Registration opens Thursday afternoon. Details and registration form to come soon!
July 15, Sunday, 11am - Descanso Gardens / Drive around the arroyo & picnic - Lunch at The Hat? - Lo be it summer, time of bounty, warmth & not a care. Join the CCC if you dare & encumber such a humble fare. For it is summer, filed with fruits & flowers of a thousand springs we endeavor to explore a few of these things. An excursion so extreme as we prepare for a midsummer nights dream. Meet at the gate we shall not wait. 11am we go in to escape the city's wrath & sin. At 1pm we elope again to the Arroyo near & deep within, to sup repast fat or thin before the rays of twilight beam, as we begin a mid-summer nights dream.
Address: 1418 Descanso Dr., La Canada 91011- www.descansogardens.org - Lost? call Steve Hammond to get more lost 818-383-2286August 4, Saturday, 11am - Malamut Microcar Museum. The CCC visits the MMM to investigate diminutive automobilia. Smart cars of the past, micro-motors, nanowagons & all manner of lilliputian conveyances abound in these mighty halls of minituriazation. Bring a magnifying glass & tweezers, Anything more than a mouthful is wasted. Lunch will follow at the local Whitecastle burger stand (or facsimile). - More information to come.
September 15, Saturday, 11am - Auto-Books - AeroBooks 9 AM & The Big Lebeauski - 12 NOON - Mark that 8 Dude. As we visit the Joseph Lebeauski estate in Burbank. After a brief shoplifting spree at AutoBooks-AeroBooks we will retire for some In & Out burgers, White Russians & lingonberry pancakes. Admire how the rug ties the room together while battling nihilists, screening "Logjammin" & checking our condition to see what condition were in. The pool... The pool...! - bring your waterpanty suits! - William Holden floating upside down like a dead chimp...? 3 little kittens who lost their mittens...? A Corvette Windshield removal clinic...? Do you have difficulty saying "Prius"?. Join us while we stay out of Malibu.
Address (Autobooks/Aerobooks): 2900 W. Magnolia Blvd. Burbank, 91505. Phone: 818 845-0707
Address (Joe Lebeauski): 512 N. Griffith Park Ave., Burbank CA 91506 - LOST? - 323-213-2956 The Dude abides.October 14, Sunday, 11am - Peterson Museum - Lunch at Canters. - The CCC visits the king of car museums in the shadow of the Tar Pits. Wooly Mammoths of motoring & Le Sabre toothed cats of the road mired in static substrate & drowning in climate control, we will observe & discover the current featured display. With a little luck & a fair amount of groveling we may get a chance to visit some captive Citroens held in the castle's dungeonous archives.
Address: 6060 Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles 90036 (at La Brea) - www.petersen.orgNovember 4, Sunday, The Best of France & Italy Car Show - Woodley Park in Van Nuys - 9am - 4pm - Vacuum out the peanuts & mummified French Fries! Its time to look your best at the best little French / Italian car show this side of the Ardennes. Gates open at 7am, arrive early for a good showing & car placement. This is a non-judged show For more info: www.franceanditaly.com
December 8, 11am - CCC Annual Christmas Party at the Harpers - Its that time, its that season. Another year gone, another year ahead. Come celebrate the echoes of 2012 in the Citro-dome of plenty. Food & cheer spill over like barrels of crude being dumped to keep gas at a gross profit. Bring a meal, bring a snack, bring an appetite & don't forget to bring yourself!
Address: 7844 McGroarty Street, Sunland. Take the 210 FWY to Sunland Blvd. exit. East on Sunland (it becomes Foothill) to Woodward. Turn right, go to end and turn left on McGroarty. Go 2 blocks and look for Citroïen Car Club sign. Park on the south side of McGroarty Street or on Cora Street. The house is up a 200-foot concrete driveway. There is limited parking at the top. If lost or for info call 818-352-3781
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