This past weekend, the automotive-themed charity Drive Toward a Cure (DTaC) returned to Southern California for an annual fundraiser building awareness and donations for the fight against Parkinson’s disease. Founder Deb Pollack established DTaC ten years after losing her mother to the neuro-degenerative disorder in 2006. As a 501(c)(3) foundation, the charity leverages the automotive community’s deep connections to provide funding, resources, and assistance for Parkinson’s patients and research. 

Now another ten years on, DTaC has raised over $1.5 million in total—and this year’s event marked the most successful yet. By chance, 2026 also happened to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Neil Diamond’s Love at the Greek concert album at Southern California’s iconic music venue, the Greek Theater. Diamond announced his own Parkinson’s diagnosis in 2018, and in another example of tight-knit automotive relationships, Pollack’s friend and the former C.E.O. of the auction site Pcarmarket, David Jacobson, now stars as the lead singer of the tribute band Neil Forever. Sadly, Jacobson lost his father to Parkinson’s.

The timing seemed perfect, then, for Drive Toward a Cure and Neil Forever to hold a full weekend event dubbed “Get Me to the Greek,” which included a philanthropic raffle and silent auctions, two full drive days, a visit to the Petersen Museum, and of course, Neil Forever’s live homage to Love at the Greek on the very stage where Diamond shined bright in 1976. DTaC invited Robb Report to join, so we arrived on Friday to meet the event’s many repeat attendees, who this year flew and drove in from as far as Idaho, New Jersey, and even Canada to join the festivities. 

The night started with bowling, heartfelt speeches from Pollack, and reunions between old and new friends alike, all underscored with a deep appreciation for the cause. We met Todd Lozier, who joined the very first rally back in 2017 after meeting Pollack through his own family’s century-old connection to the car world, when Lozier Motor Company built some of the world’s fastest automobiles in the early 1900s.

“I really got to know Deb as a friend initially,” Lozier recalled. “She was interested in my story about cars, and we just developed this friendship, and then through that, I got to learn more and more deeper about the foundation, and met a lot of folks that were affected by Parkinson’s. It has become a passion for me. I love the cars but, I’ve got to admit, I love the people even more.”

Saturday morning kicked off early as a parade of modern supercars and a handful of classic Porsches took over the Sunset Strip’s newly rebranded Sun Rose Hotel and its valet parking lot. Lamborghini supported the event by loaning Robb Report a Revuelto, the Italian automaker’s flagship hybrid supercar. Even surrounded by three stunning Ferraris—a 296 GTS, a 488 GTB, and a Roma coupe—the Lambo, with its bold Verde Ermes green and thunderous V-12 engine, drew the attention of the entire DTaC crew, as well as many curious enthusiasts who flocked to the car at every stop.

Multiple members of the caravan flew into Los Angeles and needed to rent cars, so Big Time Ridez, a local exotic and luxury car fleet, offered significant discounts to support the event. Next to my Revuelto, Lozier arrived in a Lamborghini Huracán Evo Spyder from the rental outfit, while a McLaren GT and a Lotus Emira also joined the drive. 

“Supporting charitable causes like Drive Toward a Cure this past weekend in Los Angeles is something that’s deeply important to me,” said Big Time Ridez founder Kam Foo. “I struggle with my own health issues and always want to show my support to others who are facing similar challenges and difficult conditions. We were honored to participate . . .”

The Revuelto’s combined 1,001 hp almost overwhelms any public road, even the stunning switchbacks leading up Route 39 through Azusa Canyon into the Angeles Forest. We cruised up the winding ascent, feeling out the road, the car, and the group around us—you never know with supercar rallies, since driving style and safety considerations often fall by the wayside. Not so with DTaC, as every driver remained respectful of the communities we passed through, taking the mountain at their own comfortable pace. Fun for the family, and the many passengers joining the charitable weekend, rather than adrenaline junkies raring to find the danger zone.

After a spectacular photo stop at the summit, the group about-faced back to the Petersen Museum for a quick lunch at the Meyers Manx lobby cafe. Next up, guided tours in the museum’s coveted basement Vault, which houses a truly fantastic array of movie props, Formula 1 race cars, infamous historical cars such as Saddam Hussein’s personal limousine, concept designs, hot rods, and even two-stroke dirt bikes from the early days of desert racing.

We couldn’t stay and ogle every last make and model, though. There’s simply too much to see at the Petersen, and we all needed to round up and make sure we actually made it to the Greek. A luxury motorcoach provided group transport to the theater for a VIP dinner and reception before the show. Pollack herself introduced the band on stage and dedicated the night to Parkinson’s research, the many DTaC attendees in the crowd, as well as everyone on hand who loves Neil Diamond’s music.

“Neil Forever founder David Jacobson and I have known each other forever,” Pollack told us. “He’s been touring as a Neil Diamond cover band for the last several years. So he called me and said, ‘You know, we haven’t done California, and it’s the 50th anniversary of Neil Diamond’s Love at the Greek performance from 1976. Wouldn’t it be great if we performed there, and you guys were the beneficiary?’”

As the lights turned down and Neil Forever played faithful renditions of familiar classics, fans streamed to the lowest rows of the amphitheater to dance and sing along. A booming choir of voices in unison choraled for “Song Sung Blue,” crooned “Cracklin’ Rosie,” and of course, wound down by serenading “Sweet Caroline” as echoes faded off the hillside. The night—filled with energy—wrapped back in the VIP lounge, where the band joined for laughs, congrats, and a few serious moments honoring the DTaC efforts. 

Early the next morning, the crew hunted out some more canyons to cruise. A stop at perhaps LA’s greatest under-the-radar car collection at the Malamut Museum preceded a trip over the Malibu hills toward Pacific Coast Highway, before lunch. Looping back down toward town through the devastating remains of beachfront houses and empty lots lost during the Palisades Fire served as another reminder of where DTaC’s fundraising can help anyone battling Parkinson’s. In emergency evacuations like this, or after Louisiana hurricanes, DTaC’s special-assistance fund covers moving and care expenses for patients being forced to leave, and oftentimes lose, house and home.

The foundation may have started as one woman’s vision, but it now spreads across the country. DTaC also launched the Hope in Motion blog this year as a resource for those struck with early onset Parkinson’s. Early diagnoses make a significant difference in flattening the curve of Parkinson’s debilitating symptoms, as DTaC cofounder Derek Torry explained to us onsite. Torry’s wife, a speech therapist, noticed concerning telltales that led to a diagnosis 14 years ago, when Torry was only 40 years old. Today, Torry maintains a strict health protocol to help delay the onset of tremors, rigidity, and instability as much as possible.

“Diet and exercise have become a key part of managing this disease,” Torry said. “It’s proven that cycling helps to produce dopaminergic energy neurons, which are the neurons that are dying in your brain that cause Parkinson’s. So I cycle every day for 45 minutes to an hour, on the bike in the house. Another 45 minutes at the gym just for fitness purposes. That, and trying to eat clean when I can. I eat at home more often, where it is easier to manage vegetarian, plant-based types of food. This has probably extended, or made the progress, very slow for me.”

Similarly, music has been proven to help Parkinson’s patients experience receding effects. Following his diagnosis in 2018, Neil Diamond told CBS Sunday morning, “It’s like all the systems in my mind and my body are working as one when I’m singing. And it’s a great feeling.” However, despite the efforts of researchers and foundations like DTaC, no cure for Parkinson’s exists as of yet. Which only makes events like this past weekend more significant.

DTaC plans to continue expanding across the country with more fundraising rallies, including a family fund that Pollack hopes to launch this summer in honor of her mother’s 100th birthday. “When you don’t have a cure, you need hope,” Torry told Robb Report. “Everyone coming by and supporting this is what it’s going to take to fix it. That’s the hope I have.”

Click here for more photos of Drive Toward a Cure’s “Get Me to the Greek” road rally.