A typical Pebble Beach tableau. Ferrari built four 250 Testa Rossas in 1959 for his factory team. All four were at Pebble Beach fifty years later. Some spent hours strolling past, comparing and contrasting the details of the cars. Credit: Michael T. Lynch
By Michael T. Lynch
Pictured below are some major show winners from the Monterey Car festivites, and a few other notables seen during the week. After the gloom and doom of the recent financial unpleasantness, the week was a wonderful respite. The Carmel-by-the-Sea Concours on the Avenue and The Quail-A Motorsports Gathering both had their finest entry yet. The doyenne of the week, the venerable Pebble Beach Concours, also had an exceptional entry, one of the best of its storied sixty year history.
The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance
After winning The Quail on Friday with his Alfa,
Bob Lee brought this Horch 853 Voll and Ruhrbeck Sport Cabriolet to the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance on Sunday and won Best of Show there. The bodywork and chrome were attention getters, but one had to wonder about the performance. The car weighs nearly 6000 pounds and only 120 horsepower from its five-liter straight eight to get it down the autobahn. Credit: Michael T. Lynch
This is the Ferrari 375 America Vignale Coupe (S/N 0337 AL) that won the Ferrari Class and the Enzo Ferrari Trophy at Pebble Beach. It was entered by Heinrich and Magdalena Kampfer and is pictured at the Carmel-by-the-Sea stop of the Pebble Beach Tour d’Elegance. Credit: Michael T. Lynch
David Smith’s Siata 208S, CS058, is unusual in two ways. It is a converted spyder in a series of coupes, and it was a post-World War II car nominated for Best of Show at Pebble Beach. Credit: Michael T. Lynch
The Quail – A Motorsports Gathering
Bob Lee’s Alfa 8C2900B Touring roadster took top honors at The Quail – A Motorsports Gathering on Friday. This long chassis, Touring-bodied roadster. S/N 412026, was once owned by American Ferrari importer, Luigi Chinetti. Credit: Michael T. Lynch
The Carmel-by-the-Sea Concours on the Avenue
Jon and Mary Shirley pose with their Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa, S/N 0666, which won the Dennis A. Levett Best of Show Award at the Carmel-by-the-Sea Concours on the Avenue on Tuesday. The setting is the Cypress Inn, headquarters for the event. This is the prototype 250 TR. It was built in 1957 and entered by the Ferrari team at the Nurburgring, Sweden and Venzuela. It was constructed to meet the three-liter limit to be introduced in 1958. This is the first of Ferrari’s most successful line of sports racing cars. Credit: Carmel-by-the-Sea Concours on the Avenue
Scott Gauthier’s lovely medium-grey 1948 Fiat 750 Zagato Panoramica coupe took 2nd in the Zagato class at Pebble, and also won a Mille Miglia award.
Congratulations Jon & Mary Shirley on 0666TR’s Best of Show at Carmel. Great pic. Can’t wait to see & hear your P3 at Lobethal here in South Oz in a few weeks.
Congratulations Jon and Mary. This historic car looks fabulous. I am always reminded of Bruce Kessler’s wonderful story about why the fog lights pointed up. “So we could estimate the direction of the road by the space between the tops of the trees when you couldn’t see the road through the fog.” Heroes in deed.