Jon Shirley and the Ferrari brave the traditional confetti shower as they pull over the ramp to take Best of Show at Pebble Beach. Credit: Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance
By Michael T. Lynch
The biggest story of the week of automotive events on the Monterey Peninsula was Jon Shirley’s 375 MM Scaglietti Coupe winning Best of Show at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. It was the first ever win for a Ferrari.
In 1955, Phil Hill won Best of Show with a 1931 Pierce-Arrow 41 LeBaron Convertible Town Cabriolet he had restored. (Hill also won the race with a Ferrari 750 Monza.) The Pierce began a string of pre-World War II Pebble Beach winners that continued until this year, the lone exception being a Maserati Mistral in 1968. [Read more…] about Ferrari Ends Pre-war Domination of Pebble’s Best of Show