2011 Infiniti M Foam Model Drives Through Pebble Beach

Using a foam model and some serious projection technology, the 2011 Infiniti M appeared to drive out of its Pebble Beach debut. It's a truly amazing effect, shaming the typical fake smoke-and-cloth-drop reveal.

Stig-Spotting At Pebble Beach?

Is this The Stig spotted this weekend at Pebble Beach or just a Top Gear fan-boy engaging in some strange form of CosPlay? (Hat tip to Paul!) Photo Credit: Pzeissig

2011 Infiniti M Revealed At Pebble Beach

Apparently Nissan didn't get the message all the cool stuff was happening at the Woodward Dream Cruise today and they went ahead and revealed the 2011 Infiniti M at the stinky old Pebble Beach Concours. More »

2011 Infiniti M Teaser Sketch Previews Virtual Pebble Beach Unveil

Nissan's released this teaser of the 2011 Infiniti M, set to debut August 14th at the Pebble Beach Concours, kinda. It's actually going to be digitally revealed, projected onto a blank foam model. Weird. More »

Devon GTX Heading To Pebble Beach Despite Losing Viper Bid

The Devon GTX was supposed to be based on the Dodge Viper. Unfortunately, Scott Devon's $5.5 million bid for the Viper brand and factory was turned down. What can he use instead? More »

Nick Hogan's Rolls Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe At Pebble Beach

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2009 Mercedes SL65 AMG Black Series Back-End At Pebble Beach

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Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Drives Pebble Beach In Its Bloomers

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Spyker C8 Aileron To Debut At Pebble Beach, Dilute Show Even More

We've just heard the Spyker C8 Aileron will make its North American debut at this weekend's Pebble Beach Concours D'Elegance. We've already seen the Aileron make it's worldwide debut at the 2008 Geneva Motor Show, so color us jaded if we're not terribly excited by this news. In fact, we're beginning to get a bit annoyed with automakers treating Pebble Beach like the Detroit Auto Show. At the current count, debuting this year is the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport, the Pininfarina Hyperion, and one other (much more interesting) car we can't tell you about 'till tomorrow morning. Sure would be nice to have, you know, old cars at the show too.


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Hertz To Auction 25 Shelby Mustang GT-H Convertibles At Monterey Kruse Auction

Only 500 2007 Shelby GT-H Convertibles were made for Hertz's Rent-a-Racer fleet, but if you want one, 25 of them will be for sale at next week's Kruse auction in Monterey. True, you could probably build your own by bolting on a few parts to a standard GT Mustang Convertible, but if you're convinced a GT-H driven some of the hardest miles known to man by a series of cement-footed Ford fan-boy tourists will have some level of future "value," then by all means, head on over to the Auction. Sure, you'll have to pay $100 to get in the door plus a 10% commission on the car, but with so many of the yellow-and-black Mustangs under one roof, you may end up with a steal. (Hat tip to Buckster!) More »

Porsche "No. 1" Coming To Pebble Beach

The Porsche officially known as the Type 356-001, but affectionately known simply as "No. 1," will be making it's first ever appearance in North America at this month's Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance. The forefather of Bruce, originally designed by Dr. Ferdinand back in 1947, was supposed to be at the '98 Monterrey Historics for the brand's 50th anniversary, but was damaged in transit. Apparently it took another ten years for Porsche to decide to try it again — as the car now heads over to us from the fatherland to celebrate Porsche's 60th anniversary. So if you're a passionate Porsche purist, this may be your only chance to scope out "No. 1" on these shores for quite some time. The car's full story is in the press release after the jump. More »

Bugatti Veyron Targa To Bow At Pebble Beach, Car Snobs To Feign Disinterest

The Pebble Beach Concours D'Elegance usually plays host to the reveal of at least one high profile, high-dollar piece of driveway candy every year. This year is no exception with the Bugatti Veyron Targa expected to make an appearance and drop its very expensive top. And when we say expensive, what we really mean to say is ridiculously expensive. More »

Pininfarina Hyperion, Rolls Royce Drophead Coupe-Based Convertible To Premiere At Pebble Beach Concours

The coolest thing about the Pininfarina Hyperion isn't its swooping, yacht-influenced lines or abbreviated passenger compartment. It's that this isn't a concept car, it's a one-off coach-built special commissioned by a wealthy enthusiast. Other details on the Rolls Royce Drophead Coupe special haven't yet emerged, but expect to see the Hyperion in full at the Pebble Beach Concours in August. [via Pininfarina]

Farewell, Monterey. Hello Again, L.A.

For dirt-poor gearheads with a penchant for the unloved and inexpensive as well as a passion for history, craftsmanship, design and wonderful noises, scoring a chance to hit the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance and its attendant and ancillary events is like being handed a golden ticket to an automotive fantasyland where Ferraris scream in the distance as one falls asleep at night, while race day is populated with barking Offenhausers, thundering big-block V8s and spitting, yowling Coventry Climaxes. New cars appear and old cars reappear, sometimes weathered by the ravages of time, others restored to a high-gloss sheen that's likely better than the condition in which the vehicle first arrived in its original owner's hands. We'll go so far as to say that although it's presented in a high-buck format, you owe it to yourself to experience the Monterey weekend at least once in your life. It's that good. If you missed our reportage due to excessive sleep and/or family life, fear not — we've got a link to the insanity here. What's more, there's plenty of goodness left to share throughout the week. Break out the eye peeler.

The Jalopnik Yuri Gagarin Memorial Timepiece Collection

While judges scour and pore over fine examples of coachwork from Zagato and Scaglietti, chassis and engines by Duesenberg, Aston Martin — and even a hand-picked selection of hot rods by ingenious American hoodlums — in search of a winner, Bumbeck and Johnson scoured the field for the odd little gems that most embody the spirit of awesome. Sometimes it's a detail as small as a primer bowl on a rack of Webers. Others, it's the pure aura of gigantic gobs of awesome, most strikingly displayed by the Napier-Railton Brooklands oval speed-record car. Plus, some brave individual manhandled the beast through the Corkscrew yesterday at Laguna. And what could be better than that?

2008 Lexus SC 430 Pebble Beach Edition

Ladies who lunch, start your mixed green salads. It's the 2008 Lexus SC 430 Pebble Beach Edition, and it's coming soon to a tennis club in Orange County, California. Considering this is the time of year when car enthusiasts' thoughts turn to all things snooty and julip-soaked, Lexus again will give its aging SC a good tricking out. And as usual, they're whipping out the upmarket-sounding phrase book. Check out the Smoky Granite Mica exterior paint, and the exclusive two-tone Camel and Ecru leather trim interior and Espresso Bird-eye maple wood trim. Also note the white illuminated scuff plates, sleek rear spoiler and 18-inch chrome, six-spoke wheels under a set of run-flats. Excuse us while we put the Chardonnay on ice, draw a bubble bath and get out our secret stash of Criss Angel: Mindfreak DVDs. More »

Max Weinberg Not Auctioning Lotus 7

Conan O'Brien's bandleader, Max Weinberg, will have a few machines up for sale at Christie's Pebble Beach auction, including an immaculately-restored '57 Corvette. At the age of 24, with his first Born to Run bux in his pocket, Weinberg picked up a '70 E-Type. But probably the raddest testament to Weinberg's car love is that his first ride was an $800 Volvo P1800 that he picked up because Roger Moore drove one in The Saint. Still, we would've loved to have seen young Max in Patrick McGoohan's Sixties television ride... [ForbesAutos]

The "Legendary" 1975 Pink Fin Painting Up For Auction At Pebble Beach Concours

The Harold Cleworth painting billed as beginning "...today's modern automotive art movement" is going up for auction Saturday, August 18 at the Gooding Auction to be held after the Pebble Beach Concours. While we're more of a fan of Cleworth's other works with the album covers of such masters as The Who and The Rolling Stones, we're pretty sure someone out there will snatch up this piece of automotive art history. We'll wait until we can snag the original of "Dogs Playing Poker."

A Bit About Wealthy Car-Guy Culture

We weren't raised wealthy, but we were raised in the 1980s, when conspicuous consumption was everywhere. We mostly came of age in the 1990s, when our weird punk geek friends made bundles of money in tech and bought us drinks and drugs, but it was cool to be (or appear to be) broke. As Ian MacKaye so famously sung, "Cool's eternal, but it's always dated." And if that line isn't as famous as it should be as a social critique, well, it should be. And now? Well, now we're in an age of some weird aspirational decadent affluence that seems like a strange melange of the self-consciousness of the 1990s and the weird rah-rah, score-at-all-costs innocence of the '80s. So what does this have to do with cars? Largely everything. More »

Bill Harrah: 1, Igor Sikorsky: 0

We were talking to our folks last night and mentioned the majesty of the Hoover Dam, one of the few unnatural features of Nevada that doesn't reek of chintzy artifice. Being of Nevadan stock ourselves, we have mixed feelings about the state; the superficial glitz, dumb hicks and ridiculous high-roller wannabes get to us, but you know, there's familial history there and we've got a weakness for strippers. Six o' one, a half-dozen of the other, we suppose. While we were in Pebble Beach a week ago, we caught the auction of a rather fascinating 1971 Ferrari 365 GTB/4 that somehow dovetails with all of this yammering. More »

Lancia at Laguna: D50 Runs the Monterey Historics

Imagine gargling six-penny nails and then running the resultant sound through an analog, vacuum-tube powered signal processor. Now imagine that sound being one of the best sounds you've ever heard. That, friends is the Lancia D50 bombing into a turn at Laguna Seca in the hands of Steve Tillack. He may have finished 17th, but there wasn't a cooler car on the track during the 1955-1965 F1 & F2 race at the Monterey Historics. More »

If Any Car Is Worth $5,610,000, This Is Probably It: The Ferrari 412S

We Yanks tend to think of Euro cars as machines for overmoneyed, caviar-nibbling, expensive-jeans wearing sleazebags with expensive watches and questionable facial hair. Manliness is measured by the pure cubic inch, not the horsepower-per-cubic-inch. And truth be told, there's more than a fair dose of reality in that stereotype. But. But, there was a time when European sports racers, while more sophisticated than the Hudsons and Chryslers running 'shine across the backroads of the South, were just as goddamn rip-your-nips-off hairy-chested as anything we ever produced. More »

The Cadillac NART

Luigi Chinetti was famously the original American distributor of Ferrari automobiles and honcho of the company's North American Racing Team. In the late 1960s and early '70s Chinetti was worried about impending emissions regulations possibly strangling his Ferrari business, so he turned around a front-drive Eldorado powertrain and stuffed it in the back of a four-seat coupe designed by his son, Luigi, Jr. and had Zagato whip up an example. The result was somewhat horrifying, and despite the fact that it's a one-of-one vehicle comissioned by a legend in the realm of motoring and constructed by a fabled coachbuilder, it's still, shall we say charitably, two-bag ugly. No wonder it sold for tuppence ha'penny (read: $52,500) at the RM auction in Monterey. More »

Classic IMSA Action at the Monterey Historics

Armed with only our trusty little Nikon Coolpix L3 — which is a fine we camera for shooting things that happen to be static, but not so good for objects moving at a high rate of speed — and Pen's access to the trackside Ferrari Club of America tent, we went for broke shooting the no talkin' man, all action IMSA race. While some of the other classes were more of a high speed exhibition, the IMSA guys weren't poontangin' around; dudes was haulin' some serious poop. While the race was dominated by 935s and Monzas, Bobby Rahal showed up in an M1 and put on a strong showing. Ultimately, though, Bruce Canepa of Scotts Valley, CA (the #12 car pictured above) walked off with the win in his '79 935, but not after doing some serious Ginsu-style slicing and dicing to score the victory. Best race we saw all weekend. More »

The Joy of Muntz

The last vehicle to cross the block at the last event of the Monterey weekend was a 1953 Muntz Road Jet. Bidding started at $35k for what's reputed to be the cleanest unrestored Road Jet in the country. One person took the bait and the car rolled offstage. Sort of a whimpering end to a wallbanger of a weekend. But Earl "Mad Man" Muntz, who made his bacon selling televisions (he named his daughter "Tee Vee") was no shrinking violet. More »

Paddock Randomness at the Monterey Historics

The nutso thing about the Monterey Historics is that everywhere you look, there's something to catch your fancy, even if you're not checking out the action on the track, which can get pretty heated at times — to wit, the Saturday Trans-Am race and the Sunday IMSA battle. But just walking around the reserved parking areas taken up by various and sundry clubs, you'll run across something you haven't seen in a long time, or perhaps have never laid eyes on before. (Although we have to admit, in the case of the de Tomaso Guara, we wish we hadn't laid eyes on it. Why, Alejandro? Why?) More »

And You Thought the Brera Was Hot: Vintage Alfa Deliciousness

What's cooler than seeing a vintage Alfa Romeo race car cruising around the pits at Laguna Seca on Saturday and then spotting it again on the grass at Pebble Beach on Sunday? In our opinion, very, very little. Four cylinders or eight, these two Alfas are teh sex. More »

The Society of the Spectacle: Voisins at Pebble Beach

We have to admit that Voisin was only an automotive name that hung somewhere in the back of our mind, along with Buick and Lincoln until we got to Pebble this year. A long-past-gone luxury marque with an illustrious history that ended long before we were born. That said, even the most incredible Lincolns and Buicks have nothing on the insane vehicles Gabriel Voisin came up with during the first half of the century. If Saab can claim to be born from jets, Voisin automobiles were directly birthed from the loins of the glorious age of early propeller aviation. If looks could stun, these cars' phasers are set on "kill." And the switch is stuck there. More »

James Glickenhaus' Ferrari P4/5 Coming-Out Party

As debutante balls go, this one was a doozy, featuring all manner of exotica and just plain expensica. While our favorite car in the building was Spyker honcho Victor Muller's three-place vintage Rolls with a wooden deck and a side-mounted gun-rack built for some maharajah or other, all eyes were on the stage for the unveiling of James Glickenhaus' Pininfarina designed-and-built P4/5. We've written about it ad nauseum, and pix from Pebble have already appeared on the site, so this post is essentially an addendum to illustrate the sheer madness as the great washed (you think they let the unwashed through the gates at Pebble Beach, son?) swarmed the magnificent vision in carbon fiber. Still, Jim, we've gotta give you shit on the horrid Jock Jams you cranked during the reveal. Next time you drop four mil on a custom car, call us. We'll set you straight on the tunes. H sker D 's "New Day Rising" seems like it would've been the natural choice for such an occasion. More »

The Best BMWs Ever

Simply put, these two cars (the second is featured after the jump) are the two coolest cars that the Bavarian Motor Works ever pumped out. Ironically, the car above featured a design by Giugiaro and an Italian-built chassis commissioned by BMW, while the car after the jump was designed by an Italian firm and licensed to to the Motor Works after the Second World War. Sheesh, the Monterey Historics make our pants tight. More »

Coiffures d'Elegance: Best Hair at Pebble Beach

Pebble Beach summons a diverse, and times, slightly-off crowd. For some, it's the thing to do in the area that weekend, and the $175 admission fee is no barrier to entry whatsoever. For others, it's a carefully-planned vacation for the hardest of the hardcore car geeks. For us, it was an adventure in skin-of-the-teeth party crashing and media-credential scamming. But at any event, there are almost always at least two people whose hairstyles rise above the rabble and make themselves known with a yawp like a crack of thunder. (Apologies to Whitman and Chaucer.) This year's awards for best coiffure go to Odd Rattail Guy and Weird Blonde Poof Lady. More »

The Ballad of Babe The Blue Ox

On the way back from Laguna Seca on Saturday, we noticed this old car carrier abandoned in a dusty turnout. And Pen, like us, being a lover of all things old, cool and most likely better off left alone, immediately took a shine to it. After Sunday's races, on our way to the Baja Cantina, we pulled over for a closer look at the beast. Although obviously a Ford, the front emblem had been replaced with a stylized, ox-horn-shaped logo that read "Babe," with "The Blue Ox" rendered on the side of the cab. Paul Bunyan was nowhere to be seen, having apparently left his poor, broken-down longtime sidekick on the side of the road, where it was, according to the ticket, overdue to be towed away. Please don't let this be the end of Babe, people. Don't send the ol' ox off to the rendering plant! More »

Pebble Beach Ferrari 599 Preview

Being a Ferrari owner apparently has its perks, one being an invite to the Ferrari North America preview of the 599 Fiorano. We tagged along with Pen to check out the scene and were greeted by some magically delicious Ferrari-branded sportswear-clad ladies, one of whom seemed to take quite the shine to Pen, as she was a Navy brat who used to cut through the Camp Pendleton Marine base on her way to the beach, which was named for one of Pen's relatives, General Joseph Henry Pendleton. Meanwhile, we were disappointed that the 599s in attendance were sporting the upgraded tire and wheel packages, rather than the base Satano-star Pentagram examples. We mean, really, shouldn't the Beelzebubbian initimidation factor be worth a premium? Alternately, the boys in Maranello could pervert Chrysler's slogan: "Ferrari: Lucifer Comes Standard." More »

Magnum DGJ: Jalopnik Hits the (Pebble) Beach

Last Thursday, around 7:30am we were supposed to be on our way to Pebble Beach in a Ferrari 308 GTB with Jalopnik reader, Larry Manetti fan and all-around fantastic character Pen Pendleton, who was to play Rick to our Thomas Magnum. But we weren't. We were asleep, having snoozed right through our alarm. A few frantic phone calls and some mad Interwebs clicking later, we were in the Durango on the way to LAX to catch a flight to San Jose, where we were offered a ride to Monterey by a very nice woman from Texas named Susan, who refused payment for the lift. (Thanks, Susan!) We hooked up with Pen upon arrival, who actually had been passed by Haller's two-SUV caravan on PCH on the way up, for which he received a bit of grief. More »

Coming Out: James Glickenhaus Unveils His Pininfarina-Built Ferrari P4/5

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The Ladies Who Lunch Have Spoken: The 2007 Lexus SC Pebble Beach Edition

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BREAKING! Very Wealthy People Headed to Monterey This Weekend

With all of the hubbub about the rollup to the Woodward Dream Cruise that's been happening here on tha Jalop, it may seem like we've been neglecting the Euro-car hoopla happening in Steinbeck Country this weekend. We haven't. We've roped up a last-minute posse. We've got a Ferrari of some sort to ride up in (either a race-prepped 308 GTB with questionable electrics and cooling, no windows, no A/C and a cage, or a 365 GT 2+2 that runs strong but may require a gallon or two of reserve Mobil 1 in the trunk). (Thanks, Pen!) More »

Glickenhaus Ferrari P4/5: Test-Drive Video

We've never videotaped a new-car test drive before — 20 minutes of bullshit talk from a guy in a bad suit, and us trying to decide when to "test the brakes," isn't exactly cinemographic gold in the making. But again, we didn't spend $3 million to get our own, custom Ferrari, designed by Pininfarina. Luckily, buyer James Glickenhaus recorded his first time behind the wheel of his Ferrari P4/5 for posterity. It's not long, but at least there's no one yammering on about trunk space. [Thanks to Anthony for the tip.] More »