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The Peninsula Classics 2019 Best Of The Best Award Announces Eight Finalists
The Peninsula today announced the eight nominees for its prestigious The Peninsula Classics 2019 Best of the Best Award, an accolade presented to the world’s most exceptional classic car. The selected vehicles were built by automakers from five different countries over a span of nearly 40 years, 1919 to 1958. The winning vehicle will be unveiled on February 6, 2020 at an award presentation at the famed The Peninsula Paris. Founded in 2015 by The Hon. Sir Michael Kadoorie, Chairman of The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, Limited, with co-founders William E. (Chip) Connor, Bruce Meyer and Christian Philippsen, this year’s…
Ford GT & Boss 429 Top Mecum’s Kansas Sale
Mecum’s recent Kansas City auction, held Dec. 5-7 at the Kansas City Convention Center in Missouri, saw sales reach an overall total of $9 million at the three-day event as a total of 410 vehicles hammered sold for a strong 70% sell-through rate. Both modern beauties and stunning classics made a showing in the top-selling spots at the Kansas City auction, and while the top two sellers wore the Ford Blue Oval, it was the Bowtie brand that dominated with six Chevrolets landing on the top 10 list. The auctions No. 1 highest sale was achieved by a 2005 Ford…
The Alfa Romeo Sprint Speciale – Italian Beauty, Elegance, and Innovation
The remarkable Alfa Romeo Sprint Speciale must be counted as among the most beautiful sports car designs of the twentieth century. Penned by the prolific and gifted Bertone designer Franco Scaglione, the Sprint Speciale was highly influenced by sculptural experimentations revealed in the extraordinary aerodynamic studies achieved in the B.A.T. 5 and 7 show cars, also penned by Scaglione. As Scaglione approached the design of B.A.T. 9 with more viable production considerations, the Sprint Speciale evolved to become the ultimate expression of a modern Alfa Romeo sports car. Indeed, upon completion, the Sprint Speciale achieved a drag coefficient number of…
2020 Pebble Beach to Feature Past Winners, Pininfarina, Porsche 917 & More
Celebrating 70 Years of the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance The competition for a spot on the show field of the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance can be fierce. Tougher still is the contest to win one’s class and go on to compete for Best of Show. Each year just one car earns that distinguished title, the top accolade in the collector car world. Yet people in attendance at the forthcoming 2020 Pebble Beach Concours on August 16 can expect to see a multitude of Best of Show cars resting at the edge of the great Pacific Ocean. To celebrate its 70th…
Fiat 600 Mulitpla Honored at the Victoria & Albert Museum
The Fiat 600 Multipla, a triumph of Italian style and forerunner of all MPVs, now stars at the “Cars: Accelerating the Modern World” exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Opened on November 23rd, the exhibition focuses on the impact of the car and includes car models that have represented real social and economic accelerators throughout the twentieth century. The exhibition aims to highlight cars that have changed the world in the last 130 years in terms of design, innovation and social impact. Structured in three main sections, it includes over 250 objects and 15 cars, including the…
Atlanta Concours Report & Photo Gallery
The fourth year of The Atlanta Concours d’Elegance was held at the newly opened Tyler Perry Studios just south of Atlanta. The studios are located on the former US Army Fort McPherson, and the show field was the base’s parade field. It was a lovely venue, with the grassy field flanked by officer’s quarters on one side and barracks on the other, all built in the late 19th Century. Saturday was the day for the “Invitational Classics and Coffee at the Concours” – a selection of interesting local automobiles. Seven of them would be selected to attend the Concours the next…
Atlanta Concours d’Elegance Subscriber Photo Gallery
Subscriber-exclusive Photo Gallery form the Oct. 6, 2019, Atlanta Concours d’Elegance....
Le Juste Milieu—Hotchkiss-Grégoire
Why an auto manufacture would choose a motto, “Le Juste Milieu,” that means “The Happy Mean,” will remain unanswered despite the research done for this article or by the two museums who, together, own three of the very rare French cars – two sedans and a particularly rare coupe. It is possible that the motto...
Bicester Heritage Announces its 2020 Scramble Schedule
Bicester Heritage announced the 2020 dates for its action-packed quarterly Scramble events, held at Britain’s home of historic motoring. Advanced passes for the January 5th event are now on sale at a 25% discount, available at https://bicesterheritage.co.uk/?ticket=super-scramble-tickets-3 Now coming into its 6th year, the Scramble events are open to all vehicles and enthusiasts, with attendees in pre-1990s cars being offered access to park in the unique surroundings of restored Technical Site, formerly RAF Bicester, subject to availability. January 5thApril 26thJune 21st – Super ScrambleOctober 4th The motoring season of 2020 will begin on January 5th, with tickets to the inaugural event already selling fast.…
Maserati Celebrates the 60th Anniversary of the 5000 GT
Sixty years ago, on Nov. 29, the Maserati 5000 GT, a 2+2 coupé, was presented at the Turin Motor Show and was the undisputed star of the event. Maserati now celebrates the anniversary of this extraordinary car, built to the specific request of the Shah of Persia, Reza Pahlavi. Just 34 cars of this model were built at the Viale Ciro Menotti plant in Modena, with bodywork added by Italy’s top coachbuilders of the period. Reza Pahlavi, the then Shah of Persia, and a great enthusiast of high-performance sports cars, test-drove a 3500 GT towards the end of 1958 and…
Amelia Island to Honor “Rolling Bones”
Cars honoring the origins of American hot rodding will occupy a special place on the Silver Anniversary Amelia Island Concours field in 2020. Rolling Bones is a school of rodding that strips away the glitz to present the earthy glamor of the earliest rods to slash across the dry lakes and salt flats on the weekends yet serve as everyday transportation. For the folks who have created Rolling Bones hot rods in Greenfield Center, NY since 1999, it always goes back to racing, power and speed. “We readily admit to stealing the best ideas of those young men who came…