Cavallino, Take Three


Story and Photos by Werner Pfister

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Neither Florida's hurricanes nor Donald Trump's wedding could dampen the Palm Beach Cavallino Classic XIV. John and Alicia Barnes and the Cavallino staff did another fantastic job of organizing what has come to be known as the premier Ferrari event of the season.

That is not to say that the weather did not try to ruin the plans. First, the well liked yacht hop, usually scheduled for Friday evening, was cancelled because ongoing hurricane repairs at the boat yard precluded visitors. However, in its place there was a beautiful cocktail reception at the refurbished Breakers Hotel's seaside garden.

The Cavallino staff also had to cancel the customary Sunday event at the Trump estate, Mar-a Lago. Instead they created a new Sunday concours. John Barnes combined forces with Andrew Carduner to inaugurate a great event at the Palm Beach Polo Field in Wellington. Named the Palm Beach International- a concours d’elegance, it featured some of the Ferraris from the Saturday Cavallino concours and also introduced many fine non-Ferrari automobiles to the Ferraristi.

Overall, this was a terrific event, which featured beautiful weather for watching Ferraris and Ferraristi. In fact, Piero Ferrari and former Ferrari F-1 pilot, Eddie Irvine came over from wintry northern Italy to enjoy sunny south Florida for the weekend.

250GTO owned by Charles Arnott was driven at Moroso by Bill Noon.

Interior of Nick Colonna's very nice 1957 500TRC, serial number 0670.

Sam Mann brought a spectacular 1953 Maserati A6GC2000 bodied by Frua.

Dave Sydorick's 1956 Maserati A6GC 2000 Zagato, serial number 2121.

This is what the competition saw in 1965--Chris Cox's silver comp coupe, serial number 06701, and Preston Henn's 06885 at left.

FNA unveiled this new 430 Coupe, and the exhaust system sounds great!

Maserati Mistral Spyder looking elegant at the Palm Beach Polo club.

Cisitalia D46, owned by George Shelley.

Jeff Fisher won at Sunday's Palm Beach International with his flawless 1955 Lancia B20.

Stephen Yonoshik III displayed his 1952 Ferrari 342 America which featured a grille in gold!

Manny del Arroz's 1955 375 MM Speciale won best of show at the Cavallino Concours on Saturday, here with trophy.

Birdcage Maserati in original livery.

Carlos Monteverde brought three yellow Ferraris, this being the 250GT Berlinetta.

Herb Wolfe's Maserati 200SI from 1957.

View from the grandstands at Moroso.