CRYSTAL COVE CAR SHOW; Oceanfront parking, not cruising, is what's cool in SoCal.(Revs)

Byline: PATRICK C. PATERNIE Crystal Cove was the last vacant stretch on the Coast Highway between Newport Beach and Laguna Beach. Last spring they paved paradise and put up a parking lot, surrounded by a chichi strip mall with an ocean view befitting the nouveau riche Newport Coast lifestyle.

Then the derelicts moved in. That would be the Donut Derelicts, the loose confederation of hot rodders and classic car devotees who still assemble every Saturday morning at a humble Huntington Beach strip mall donut shop, as we reported in November 1999. What started as a post-donut ...

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