Detour Pit Stop #82: The Good Vibes Breakfast Club, Los Angeles, USA
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Early every Friday morning Angeles Crest plays host to the friendliest car club in California.
The Good Vibes Breakfast Club began when founder Jay Ryan and his wife Nicole decided to take a detour to get their Friday morning caffeine fix. Newcomb’s Ranch sits atop one of the best driving roads in the Los Angeles area, and a blast up State Highway 2, or Angeles Crest, was the perfect start to the weekend.
During the pandemic the ranch closed but its capacious parking lot remains open and now it’s Ryan who provides the coffee and donuts to any driver or rider who makes the climb and tackles the 117 corners between the Shell station at the bottom and the ranch, climbing 5,340 feet in the process.
“This is the Mile High Club, the other one,” Ryan told Autoweek. “And it's not a club – that's the most important thing – everyone is welcome. It's not car-specific or make-specific. There's no judging, no style of car or person-specific. You can be a tire kicker, you can be a stats reader, you can be a driver. It started as a drivers meet, but it's kind of everything now.”
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