Drive Toward a Cure’s Get Me to the Greek weekend closed Sunday morning with the Signature Run rolling out from West Hollywood at 9 AM — driver tickets at $280, passenger seats at $90 — for a Malibu loop that ended at Zinqué for lunch and a private collection viewing curated for the Sunday-only registrants. It was the third and quietest of the three weekend marquee days, and structurally it served as the wind-down to a fundraising arc that opened Friday night at the Sun Rose Hotel and peaked Saturday at the Greek Theatre with the Neil Forever 50th-anniversary Neil Diamond tribute.

The Three-Day Arc

Friday, April 24 — Sun Rose, West Hollywood: Friday Night Lights and Lanes opened the weekend at the Sun Rose’s boutique bowling alley with a Wolfgang Puck Chevelle Café dinner buffet, live music programmed under Adam Blackstone’s musical direction, and a $170 ticket. It was the soft opener — relaxed, social, scene-setting — and it filled the rooftop and bowling alley with the collector-car-and-philanthropy overlap that has defined DTAC events since founder Deb Pollack launched the organization in 2016.

Saturday, April 25 — From Apex to Archive plus the Greek: The middle day was the marquee. The 8:30 AM From Apex to Archive canyon run rolled at $170 driver / $90 passenger across Mulholland, Stunt, Decker, and PCH before terminating at the Petersen Automotive Museum’s Meyers Manx Café, where docents led the 300-plus-car Vault tour. By 6:30 PM the program had crossed town to the Greek Theatre, where the Redwood Deck reception ($170) preceded the 8 PM Neil Forever 50th-anniversary tribute — David Jacobson with a 14-piece ensemble, $3,450 box suites moving through Ticketmaster. Saturday was the sold-through day. Friday and Sunday wrapped around it.

Sunday, April 26 — Signature Run, Malibu, Zinqué: Sunday’s run rolled at 9 AM from the Sun Rose west to PCH, north along the coast to a Malibu loop that swung through Latigo and Mulholland Highway, and ended at Zinqué for lunch and a private collection viewing — the kind of one-collector, one-warehouse stop that DTAC has used to close every Get Me to the Greek weekend it has run. Driver tickets were $280, passenger $90, and the cap held. It was the quiet day, but it was also the day where the relationships built Friday and the energy generated Saturday converted into the connective tissue DTAC needs for its 2027 cycle.

Beneficiaries and the $1M+ Lifetime Number

The weekend benefits the Parkinson’s Foundation, the Michael J. Fox Foundation, and the DTAC Special Assistance Fund — the three-pillar structure DTAC has held since 2016. The Special Assistance Fund is the DTAC-internal piece, designed for direct grants to Parkinson’s families navigating the financial cliff that comes with a diagnosis, and it has been the differentiator in DTAC’s positioning against larger national-research-only Parkinson’s programs. Lifetime, DTAC has raised more than $1 million across its event slate since founder Deb Pollack started the organization in 2016 — a number that the 2026 Get Me to the Greek weekend is widely expected to push north of $1.2 million when the final accounting closes in May.

Why This Mattered for the LA Collector-Car Calendar

Get Me to the Greek lives in a particular slot on the LA collector-car calendar — late April, two weeks ahead of the Petersen’s WagonFest LA on May 3, and roughly four months out from Monterey Car Week. The weekend is the soft-launch of the LA spring driving season for the high-end collector set, and the Petersen Vault tour Saturday morning functions as a museum-relationship anchor that sets up the Vault’s broader programming through the summer. Pato Day on April 19 and Racers Night on April 15 led into this weekend; WagonFest May 3 follows it; and the Petersen’s Fast & Furious 25th-anniversary exhibit, which opened April 11, has been pulling the secondary foot traffic across all of these dates.

The Sun Rose as Host Venue

The Sun Rose Hotel — Wolfgang Puck signature dining, the boutique bowling alley, the rooftop pool — has emerged across the 2026 cycle as the West Hollywood preferred host for collector-and-philanthropy programming. DTAC’s selection of the Sun Rose as Friday and Sunday anchor (with the Greek as Saturday’s marquee) signals a host-venue continuity that reads as deliberate. Programs that pivot host venues year over year tend to lose returning donor base; programs that hold a venue for two-plus cycles tend to compound their relationships. DTAC is now in the second year of the Sun Rose anchor and the trajectory is the same as Avants’ multi-year hold on the Petersen for Pato Day and Racers Night.

Asset-Side Read

For Beverly Hills collectors with assets under collateral or under consideration, weekends like Get Me to the Greek operate as informal market-temperature signals. The cars in the Sunday Malibu loop, the conversations on the Greek’s Redwood Deck, and the names on the Vault docent tour list are the same names that move on the secondary market through Q3. DTAC’s invitation list overlaps materially with the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance pre-event circuit and with the Audrain Concours weekend in Newport every fall. The weekend’s quiet asset-side function is to set the temperature for the May–August acquisition window before Monterey, and Sunday’s Signature Run is structurally the day where the most candid trade conversations happen.

The Closing Image

The weekend ends at Zinqué on Sunday afternoon, with the Malibu group breaking down their cars, returning paperwork, and walking through a private collection that the host has curated for DTAC’s invitation list. It is the quietest moment of the three days, and it is the moment where Deb Pollack’s 2016 founding thesis — that a Parkinson’s-funding collector-car program would compound on relationships, not on individual ticket prices — gets reconfirmed. The 2026 weekend was the proof point. WagonFest is next, on May 3 at the Petersen, and the same circle will re-form there.