Cars and Coffee Classics — Downtown Anaheim

“You learned the Skyline from a video game before you…”

You learned these cars from a video game before you ever saw one move. The boxy Skyline. The first-gen NSX. The Datsun somebody's uncle still talks about selling. One morning a month, on the first Sunday, the Center Street Promenade belongs entirely to that generation of machine, and unlike the everything-welcome mega-meets this one leans hard and lovingly vintage: nineties and earlier Japanese iron, Toyota and Nissan and Honda and Subaru and Mitsubishi, the imports a whole cohort of kids grew up worshipping through a screen. There is a DJ, a vendor market, a Best of Show, and the unhurried pleasure of holding a coffee while you walk rows of machinery people kept alive out of pure stubborn devotion. Free to walk in. Come if you can date a car by its headlights. Then bring the friend who can date it by the taillights and let the two of you argue about it all morning.