palos verdes

Best of Show was this Hispano Suiza towncar. Excellent choice!

By Wallace Wyss

One of the best things about the Palos Verdes Concours, which takes place at the Trump National Golf Club, is that it is on a peninsula that sticks out into the Pacific. The view is to die for–rolling golf greens and limitless ocean.

Not only that, it seems they have a tradition there of honoring obscure French marques. This year, though, the overall theme was “Age of Elegance” with examples of Rolls-Royce, Bentley, Duesenberg, and Dietrich coachwork. Ray Dietrich was a celebrated American designer in the custom coachwork era.

But rest assured there were plenty of Italian and French cars.
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By Wallace Wyss
Pictures by Richard Bartholomew and Wallace Wyss

Palos Verdes is a peninsula that sticks out into the ocean between LA harbor and Redondo Beach in Southern California. It can be a spectacular place, especially when the weather is acting up on the way there, as it was September 16th when the Palos Verdes show kicked off. It was dewy, cloudy, sunny, and variations of all of these every five minutes, but was very photogenic. Fortunately once we got there it all turned out to be the best weather imaginable–82 deg. or so with clouds hanging on the top of the hills. I bet those who didn’t go because they saw bad weather outside their window regretted it later. [Read more…] about Palos Verdes Concours September 16th, 2012