The improvement in the pandemic in our region has meant that certain gatherings that were cancelled last year have been able to restart.  That includes the Exotics@RTC car gatherings in Redmond.  The first of the year that I was able to attend had a German theme to it.  The theme days do not exclude other car types but they provide a focus to the theme cars and give them pride of place within the center.  The other cars are out in the parking lot.

It won’t surprise you to learn that there were plenty of Porsche and Audi vehicles on display.  Mercedes was also represented but not in such large numbers.  There were some nice old Porsches to be seen including a pair on display which are owned by a father son team – the son being a neighbor of ours.  I was really pleased to see a nice selection of older BMWs and a Z1 which I recall from my teen years.  I had assumed the Audis would be more around the R8s (and there were a few of them) but to see a Quattro from the rallying era was a cool addition.

I had ridden down to Redmond on my bike so I wasn’t carrying heavy gear with me.  I went with the M6 which shows how useful it is for such a situation.  It is nice and compact plus, it has the folding screen which is great for getting low or high angle shots.  Waiting for people to move out of shot is always problematic in this events but they have as much right to be there as I do so I either wait a long time or just accept that the shot will be more cluttered than ideal.

I hope to get down there a lot more this season and see what they have to offer and what fun cars show up.  I will also share a few of the non-German cars from this day in another post to come.