Cold Start Car Meet — Motoring Club Morning

San Francisco’s next Cold Start car meet is set for Sunday, April 26, with a three-hour morning gathering at Marina Middle School. Bring a Trailer said the event will run from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. at 3500 Fillmore Street, and said its staff will be on site as a sponsor. The event page describes it as the second Cold Start of 2026 in the Bay Area, organized by Motoring Coffee and The Motoring Club. Bring a Trailer’s April 15 post points attendees to Motoring Coffee’s Instagram for additional details. The Motoring Club says it now operates three clubhouses and has locations in Los Angeles and San Francisco, framing the meet as part of a larger members-and-enthusiasts network rather than a one-off parking-lot meetup. (themotoringclub.com/) That matters in San Francisco because Cold Start is being staged as a recurring series, not a single date. Motoring Coffee posted in January that its first Cold Start of 2026 had already drawn a crowd in the city. Cold Start sits inside a wider Bay Area calendar of informal car gatherings, from weekly meets in the South Bay to marque-specific shows and cruise nights listed across regional event calendars. The format is simple: arrive early, walk the rows, and leave before lunch. That early window helps distinguish these meets from night cruises and ticketed concours events that dominate other parts of the car-show circuit. For April 26, the practical takeaway is straightforward: the next Cold Start is in the Marina from 8 to 11 Sunday morning, with the exact meetup details published on the event listing and Motoring Coffee’s social channels.