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De Gallo at the Museo Nazionale Dell’Automobile

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Museo Nazionale Dell’Automobile

Story and photos Copyright by Daniel De Gallo

During my vacation in Piemonte this past month, it was worth revisiting the Museo Nazionale Dell’Automobile, located in the south end of beautiful Torino (Turin) Metropolitan city. Torino is home of F.I.A.T. and many other famous Italian car design firms. Torino was nominated sister city with Detroit, MI in 1998; that makes sense… and yes, Ford Gran Torino series were named after that city.

Anyway, the museum sits in a modern dedicated facility built between 1958 and 1960, with a retro futuristic style, still very elegant to this day. It is located minutes from the old F.I.A.T. Lingotto factory and roof-top proving track, now turned shopping mall and mixed-use office-residential space.

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Concorso Italiano 2026

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Best of Show, 1959 Maserati 3500 GT Bertone owned by Jim Utaski.

Story by Brandes Elitch
Photos by Daniel De Gallo

It gives me great pleasure to tell you that the Concorso Italiano is back and better than ever.

I attended the very first one, which I think was 40 years ago if that is possible, kind of a trial balloon, launched by Francis Mandarano at the Carmel Mission Inn, in a shopping center complex right next to Route One and just down the street from the Mission.

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The Paddock, 2026

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Story by Brandes Elitch
Photos by and copyright of Daniel De Gallo

A while back, someone asked me if there were any events missing from Car Week. This seemed like a strange question at the time because there are at least thirty well publicized events all over Monterey Peninsula. And then last year Tanya Kosta started a new event, called The Paddock. I think Tanya hit her stride with this a few weeks ago, but here I want to give you some background that you will not likely have read elsewhere about why this works.

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Hillsborough Concours de Elegance 2026

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1963 Citroën Ami 6 ( won best in the W* class)

By Brandes Elitch and Daniel De Gallo
Photos by Daniel De Gallo

Recently, it seems like all sorts of new car events are springing up in the “Concours d’Elegance” category. For instance, we have the new Wilton House Concours (“Concours des Legendes”), the Heveningham Concours, the London City Concours, the Concours at Hampton Court, the Royal Bahrain Concours, the Fuori Concorso, Moda Miami, Tegernsee, and the Aurora Concours in Sweden. You can’t tell the players without a scorecard. I imagine that our sophisticated readers would find an explanation for how and why this is all happening now.

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