Grisanti, who moved to Malibu in 1978 and has held office since December 2020, responds irritably to the idea that Feresten, Farah, Leno and others have no responsibility for the Sunday gatherings. A man holding a pair of boa constrictors films himself while inviting Leno to touch his snakes. Farah’s wife, Hanna Stein, greets a pre-teen fanboy who seems to have grown 2 feet taller, she says, since she met him on a Sunday morning a year ago. Kids particularly want to talk to Feresten, to share their excitement about their favorite cars. “They’ve actually created the problem they said they were trying to solve.” and fizzled out by 10 now began at 10 and went on well into midday. The fancy-car frenzy that once started at 8 a.m. The unintended result: Rather than go away, car enthusiasts started arriving later in the day. Malibu Village landlords hired private security, who erected barricades, which stay up from 7 a.m. Sheriff’s motor patrols started showing up. Braden called Feresten, Farah and other perceived leaders of the car scene and either warned or threatened them, depending on who is telling the story.īraden says he warned them that “if they were organizing car shows,” and the resulting traffic was costing the city a lot of money, “it is going to come back to you.” James Braden, the veteran Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department officer who watches over Malibu. “I was asked to look into it by the mayor,” says Lt. The access wars that have flared anew this summer feel as old as the rocky point at one end of the Cove and as new as the next tide. 50 years later, the fence finally came down Nearby, Paul Zuckerman, an attorney and Feresten’s partner in his podcast, “ Spike’s Car Radio,” will park his beautifully restored 1961 Mercedes 300SL beside an even more beautiful 1957 Mercedes 300SL driven by Bruce Meyer, co-founder of the Petersen Automotive Museum.Ĭalifornia As a child, he sneaked onto a secret Malibu beach. One is reserved for Jay Leno, who will be arriving in a very rare Porsche 356 4-Cam, which he’ll park next to a similarly rare Porsche Zagato 356 Carrera Coupe driven by Feresten. Miller’s longtime customer Spike Feresten has texted to say he needs those for himself and three others this morning. In front of the restaurant, orange cones block four parking places.
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“Believe it or not,” he says, without seeming to believe it himself, “this place used to be full at this hour. Stuck behind the parking-lot blockade, Bill Miller stands on the patio of his Malibu Kitchen restaurant, empty except for two diners having breakfast.
on a recent Sunday, and at the Malibu Village shopping mall, the barricades have gone up.
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