On Saturday, April 12, 2008, six 356's, four street cars and fourteen members and guests traveled onto Cape Cod for the 2008 season's shake down cruise. Paul Vincent hosted the group of enthusiastic drivers. Even though the weather forecast was 90% rain, the intrepid Paul Vincent said in an early morning email, the drive was a GO! The only weather that would have stopped Paul's drive was snow.
The group headed over the Cape Cod Canal onto Route 6A. The roads wound over hill and dale through very picturesque Cape Cod roads to Bill Simmons' Toad Hall auto museum in Hyannisport. Toad Hall was a frog that loved cars before the turn of the 19th Century, so what better name for an auto museum. Bill Simmons successfully raced SCCA C Production until 1980 in a Datsun 240Z, then college tuition got in the way of racing. His racing team was called Minuteman Racing.
In 1988, he began to collect primarily British Sports cars. All the cars are painted red. The Toad Hall museum consists of 33 cars from Lotus, Jaguar, MG, Triumph, Rolls Royce, and Audi. There is one lone red Porsche 356 C however, that attracted the clubs attention.
Bill runs a Bed and Breakfast in front of the Toad Hall museum called Simmons Homestead Inn. The Inn's property is home to 30 cats that got both on and in our cars if they were open. No members brought home a cat that slipped into the back seat by mistake.
The drive was capped off at Cook's Seafood, a casual self order restaurant.
Thanks to Paul for a great shake down cruise.
Tom Gentz
The group headed over the Cape Cod Canal onto Route 6A. The roads wound over hill and dale through very picturesque Cape Cod roads to Bill Simmons' Toad Hall auto museum in Hyannisport. Toad Hall was a frog that loved cars before the turn of the 19th Century, so what better name for an auto museum. Bill Simmons successfully raced SCCA C Production until 1980 in a Datsun 240Z, then college tuition got in the way of racing. His racing team was called Minuteman Racing.
In 1988, he began to collect primarily British Sports cars. All the cars are painted red. The Toad Hall museum consists of 33 cars from Lotus, Jaguar, MG, Triumph, Rolls Royce, and Audi. There is one lone red Porsche 356 C however, that attracted the clubs attention.
Bill runs a Bed and Breakfast in front of the Toad Hall museum called Simmons Homestead Inn. The Inn's property is home to 30 cats that got both on and in our cars if they were open. No members brought home a cat that slipped into the back seat by mistake.
The drive was capped off at Cook's Seafood, a casual self order restaurant.
Thanks to Paul for a great shake down cruise.
Tom Gentz
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