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While Monterey Car Week has grown to include well over a dozen different events, including several auctions, four stand out as the absolute must dos if you want to see the most significant classics possible, as well as the hot new metal being brought out by various automakers. Chief among them, of course, being the grand-daddy of them all, the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance.

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If you can’t make it out to see the Pre-Reunion, then it’s worth attending the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion for at least one day during Car Week. Thursday and Sunday are our favorite days to attend, with smaller crowds than Friday and Saturday and fewer overlapping events. While you’re there, be sure to hike up to the top of the Corkscrew, Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca’s signature left-right turn that drops several stories in the process. It’s a great vantage point

CARMEL, Calif. — Dolores Street in Carmel was taken over by women and their cars Wednesday for the first ever all-women car show.

“I brought a Ferrari F430, 2005, it’s Tour de France Blue,” said Sandra Pepe, showing off her sparkling sports car Wednesday afternoon.

Pepe is one of about 50 women who showed up with their cars to the Prancing Ponies Car Show.

Organizer Chanterria McGilbra has been on a national campaign to get more women involved in the world of cars.

“I was never encouraged to like cars, or be into cars as a kid but ironically I bought my first Ferrari and it changed my life,” said McGilbra.

The Bay Area businesswoman founded Prancing Ponies a few years later as an all-women Ferrari rally that is now a foundation raising funds to empower young girls.

Prancing Ponies has held rallies from San Francisco to Santa Barbara and the next one planned is

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Ocean Avenue in Carmel is the hot spot to be Tuesday of Monterey Car Week. People from all around the world are in town for the first big event of the big week.

“We are from Brazil,” said Emanuel Zvebiel, who is in town with a group of 25 Brazilians for Monterey Car Week.

The cars lining the avenue on Tuesday were as diverse as the people, from exotics to American muscle cars.

“This is our favorite event. Being in downtown Carmel and mingling with the crowd, we just have a great time meeting new people,” said Murray Powell, of Paso Robles.

Powell has showed a car for the last 11 years at the event, since its inception, and this year he brought his 1970 Chevelle Super Sport, which has a 454 engine.

One of the cars garnering a lot of attention at the