Let's dive straight into the potatoes: Luftgekühlt III will be April 10th, 2016! The official 'Save The Date' announcement was made at a little dinner soirée at the Emporium Of Postmodern Activites by Patrick Long and Howie Idelson, the spark and fuel behind the Luftgekühlt events. In case you're new to the idea, the first gathering of vintage air-cooled Porsches was held at our Venice location back in 2014, followed by a stunner of a program at Bandito Brothers in Culver City last March. The Luftgekühlt boys also introduced a few special projects to look forward to this year including a car build that will include some special contributors.
Music on the menu was a tremendous live performance by Butch Walker who put his black Duesenberg guitar thru its paces. Part of Luftgekühlt's efforts in 2016 is supporting the Autumn Leaves Project, a charity for pancreatic cancer research Butch founded in honor of his dad. The house was especially tickled when his good friend and artist Pink joined in for a tune.
Special thanks to KTCHN LA for the food, McCallan for the whiskey, and 805 for the beers!
See you in April!
Heralding from a thirty-year lineage, this 1998 CB400SF was rescued in Java and reborn with a single purpose: to become a proper weekly rider. Lifted in stance and sharpened in spirit, the Viridis Viator, the Green Traveller, lives for clean lines, quiet power, and the long way inland.
The ambition for this Kawasaki W800 was simple: dial down the stock noise, while creating something that was subtly custom, runs clean, while building something that wouldn’t look wildly out of place doing the sacred scoot down to Bondi for an overpriced long black.
This year’s playground was Pantai Kelecung, raw, remote, and still clinging to the Bali of old. Coconut palms, undulating black sand beach, riverbanks, and open fields formed our trackside theatre. This wasn't a doddle, this was a test of dirt and devotion.