Automotive Photographic
Galleries of 2024

Monterey Car Week set the rhythm for 2024, but the year really opened in April at Air | Water—Orange County Fairgrounds turned into a full-spectrum roll call where air-cooled lineage met its water-cooled descendants. Emory Motorsports and Gunther Werks anchored that narrative: Speedsters and outlaws on one side; carbon-fiber craft and forced-induction ambition on the other. By August, the focus shifted north. Porsche Monterey Classic kicked off my week—service bays lined with concours-quality 356s—then Werks Reunion delivered my people: PCA friends from Diablo Region, Zone 7 familiar faces, and the easy conversations that make a golf course feel like a hometown street. I parked Soul to Squeeze (Turbo Florio 4) on the fairway and walked the rows.

The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering supplied the theater—GWR center stage after its debut, the Turbo close by, and an exposed-carbon Speedster showing the construction in plain sight. At Laguna Seca the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion reminded me why I carry earplugs and a long lens, while a separate look at the new Mustang GT3 put modern GT engineering in clean light. Between appointments, I made the Turbo Florio Collection portraits at home in Carmel-by-the-Sea—Smells Like Teen Spirit, Soul to Squeeze, and 21st Century parked together for the first time—and then spent late-afternoon rides collecting Porsches by the Sea, proof that while Ferrari banners bloom during the week, Carmel reads like a Porsche town.

Autumn moved the story to Los Angeles. The Petersen pre-party set the tone—rally to rooftop, a projected turbo logo marking 50 years—then Luftgekühlt 10 turned Universal’s backlot into a one-day city for Porsche, sightlines doing half the storytelling. Around it, Gunther Werks gatherings at Folktale Winery and a quieter Showcase put the emerald-green Turbo/Tornado and its powertrain in honest daylight.

The through-line is simple: craft and community. From service bays and corrals to studio streets and rooftops, 2024 traced how people, places, and light shape the way these cars feel. That’s why I keep making the loop—because every year the same names and ideas find new ways to speak.