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In the greens of metal at the Pebble Beach Concours D'Elegance, one car leapt out at me; a strange red speedster with a Plymouth badge. I had no idea just how strange it was until the owner shared the details of its five-decade journey from speeding around Detroit to dodging mortars in war-torn Beirut. Here's the story of Plymouth's lost jet-age concept car - and its forthcoming digital redemption. More »
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Alfa Romeo Montreal, Meadowbrook Concours/Alfa Romeo Owner's Club national meet, 2007. The Montreal's C-pillar vents are the kind of thing we dream of. Funky, weird, gorgeous. Photo Credit: Sam Smith More »
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2009 Pebble Beach Concours, 1928 Bugatti T37A, ill gang sign all up in your grille piece. Ettore, we pourin' this case of Castrol R out for you. Molsheim represent. More »
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After the first dark and stormy teaser shot, Bentley's revealed yet another dark kink in the new Grand Bentley's sheet metal ahead of its Pebble Beach Concours D'Elegance reveal. Full press release accompanying the night-life shot below. More »
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This year's Fairfield County Concours d'Elegance will celebrate the dead-in-the-water Pontiac brand and, as a special treat, has a contest searching for the oldest Pontiac and oldest Pontiac with an original owner. More »
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As you may have noticed when we told you about the North American debut of the Alfa Romeo Bertone B.A.T. 11, we started off the day yesterday at the 2008 Meadow Brook Concours D'Elegance press breakfast. Actually, it was more of a press "stand-around-and-sweat". August 3rd will mark the 30th Concours held on the Meadow Brook Estate in Rochester Hills, Michigan, and they're planning on mixing things up a bit this year. Believe it or not, we're really looking forward to this one — there's going to be some really solid fantasy material on the grounds this year. Did someone say "Mormon Meteor?" More »
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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 »
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Ahhh, the Gold Coast, that stretch of far Southwest Connecticut where the real estate is lapped gently by the salt water of Long Island Sound and residents' asses are lapped gently by exotic car dealers. In a place where income is as disposable as toenail clippings there's bound to be some hotness, and I'm not talking about Stepford wives and the Postfather's favorite lemon tarts. I mean cars that draw from grown men the same sounds Marcus Vindictus made at Empress Nympho. Falls ends the summer concours season the way a blue light and metal grate end a moth, so I hope this gallery is enough to sustain us all until the next time we can lay eyes on a '27 Isotta Fraschini. More »
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Bumbeck put on his special polo shirt and we headed off from Santa Nella this morning in the hope of taking in the full experience of the Quail — a show which we snuck into last year. Sadly, we were once again denied entry into toffish society, causing Bumbeck to quip, "Well we shan't waste our time here then." Still, the parking lot at the Quail Lodge offers a finer collection of automobles than many shows so we took a quick trot across the greens and fairways of the course before heading off for the greener pastures of Laguna Seca. Gallery of wondrous motor vehicles follows below. More »
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This afternoon the two Los Angeleno Jalops who are not the Loverman will hop in a mysical Korean bucket to be magically transported to the Monterey Peninsula for three glorious days of what can only be called The Greatest Spectacle in Auto Enthusiasm. Seriously, the events surrounding the Concours d'Elegance are that face-melting. But the greatest one of all has to be the Monterey Historics. While Pebble's got the pageantry and the "Oh my freaking bloody hell, I had no idea that this even existed and/or never thought I'd see it in my life!" factor going for it, for plebian gearheads, the Historics are where it's at. The entry fees are ridiculously reasonable... More »
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No one tried to sell me a private plane this time, but I did get laughed out of the Lamborghini Greenwich tent. I figured I could smooth talk my way into a test drive if I wore enough seersucker. I was wrong. That wasn't much of a surprise, but something else was: I love Packards (I had no idea). On a 90-plus degree day in Greenwich it was time to celebrate American Iron. Rolling sculptures of sheetmetal were on display, ringed by vendors of $100,000-and-up European cars with a legitimate chance to make a sale. You want to recreate the vibe? Have about three beers to give yourself a pleasant, low-grade buzz, get yourself some deck shoes, a belt with whales on it, and two matching dogs on one leash, and then go stand in a sauna with The Girl From Ipanema playing in the background. That's about right. The sights and commentary are in the galleries. As always, the show started in the parking lot. – James Gribbon More »
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We know that Homo habilis and Homo erectus hung out in Kenya back in the day, but we had no idea the country supported a collection of vintage car enthusiasts. We ran across this gallery from their 2000 Concours d'Elegance, and while the variety of the iron tends to be a little more econo than what one would see at Pebble Beach or Amelia Island, it's chock full of radness, including what may be the only RHD FAF ever built. Yay Kenya! Yay FAF! – Davey G. Johnson More »
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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 »
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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 »
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Though not quite as tasty as meatloaf or hamburger helper, we wanted to leave you with a little gallery of our leftover photos of some of the cars at this years Meadow Brook Concours. While they aren't "blow-your-head-off" amazing, and your mom can certainly help her hamburger better, there certainly was more than enough to stave off our hunger for classic cars...for at least one more day. More »
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The Bugatti Veyron we saw yesterday at Meadow Brook's Concours d'Elegance wasn't the only piece of mettal hotness at the show. We spotted this C8 Spyker sitting pretty in the corral next to it...and oh, how we wanted to ride that piece of Audi W12-engined goodness. Oh, to feel the power between our legs...we can't help but shudder at the thought. We so need to get friendly with the folks at the Suburban Collection and Bugatti Troy. More »
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Yes, we're spoiled here in Metro Detroit. Every day, and double on Shabbos, there's some kind of a car event or auto show. But one of us had the opportunity to check out the Concours d'Elegance just down the road from us on the grounds of Oakland University's historic Meadow Brook Hall, and let's be frank — it was boring as hell. Yes, the 300 or so cars were most definetly amazing, but as one Jalopnik reader told us, after about 45 minutes you've seen all the cars and you're wondering what's next. We did manage to catch a few real diamonds amidst the rough, one of them being the car you see below in the photo gallery. That's right, we've got a sighting of the W16 engined-beast from the company owned by the folks at VDub. And the "V" is the thing, as It's got 16 cylinders in 4 banks of 4 cylinders — the equivalent of two narrow-angle V8 engines mated in a "V" configuration — all to generate somewhere around 1000 hp. So basically, it's one of the fastest and most expensive cars on earth. And here's a photo gallery to show that it doesn't flinch when it comes to looks either. More »
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The 2006 Greenwich Concours d'Elegance is the kind of event where the parking lot could be confused with the show itself: I puttered in as a guy driving a Maybach 57 was coolly gliding out. You see that kind of stuff in Greenwich. You also see tiny dogs being chauffeured in man-purses, but we're More »
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Well, we don't want to be those guys who just drop the money shot and leave — so we won't. Instead, here's a tease of the wrap-up of the 2006 Villa d'Este Concorso d'Eleganza provided by our good friends at SUPERCARS.NET. Feel free to check out our little booty-shake and then head on over to SUPERCARS.NET for the full-on, hot and steamy hardcore pics. More »
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Ferrari's taking the wayback machine to 1956, producing an abso-fab spectacta-car celebrating the 50th anniversary of the famous 250 GTZ berlinetta. The aluminum body, meant to fit atop the already insta-classic 575, sports a two-tone paintwork with styling cues that would make it's poppa proud. Our friends at supercars have the whole story, but like the 250 GTZ 50 years ago, the 575 GTZ will be presented in a world premier at Villa D'Este Concours D'Elegance this weekend. Remember to keep checking in with us throughout the weekend as we'll be bringing you more coverage from the picturesque estates of Italy. More »
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It's Saturday. I'm not used to working/blogging on the weekends. But here I am, after downing a very delicious homemade breakfast sandwich that would make the King proud, and fielding e-mails from Spinelli in Italy. No he's not attending the Concorso D'Eleganza, but he forwarded me the above pic of a Russian prototype called the Russo-Balt. We said "thanks, now get back to your sex tour you workaholic." More »
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This weekend, our friggin' hometown of New York will get its first look at how the other half drives (Har, Muffy, I just kill me. Other half, pish!) when the city's first Concours d'Elegance auto show kicks off in Central Park. The Concours will feature a number of rare Jaguars, like the D-Type and C-Type racer (pictured), Ferraris 125 and 166MM (and a special, Ferrari-only day with more such specimens), a 1937 Mercedes-Benz 540K Special roadster a 1957 Maserati 300S, and many other pricey or priceless cars. The event will be held at the Park's Wollman Rink through October 2, though the only ice will be on the fingers of the car owners' wives, and in the martini shakers, natch. More »
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In some ways, we're not big on the Concours phenomenon in the sense that these cars tend to be owned by very rich, very anal-retentive men. We are neither of those things. On the other hand, it's wonderful to see historic vehicles restored and on display for the proles to wonder over, like the '36 Delahaye Falaschi coupe pictured here, for example, at the just-past Meadow Brook Concours d'Elegance. (Say "Kon-koor Delegonse," please.) The Car Connection's got a show report a well as a great batch of photos. If stupid-rare and stunningly restored or preserved vehicles Hardcastle your McCormick, get thee to clicking posthaste. More »
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Italy's Autoblog.it notes that Alfa will be bringing a new concept roadster (purrrrr) to this year's Pebble Beach Concours D'Elegance. Dubbed the 8C Spider, the two-seater was derived from the company's 8C Competizione coupe, whose on-again, off-again production plans have bred thoughts of self-immolation for millions of car nuts (ok, us). Dare they tease us without thoughts of bringing the thing to market eventually? Could they possibly be so cruel? More »
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Oh, how we wish we could be in Bloomfield Hills, MI at the Cranbrook Educational Community this Sunday. And no, not for some dumb ol' graphic design seminar, but because of these simple, yet resonant combinations of letters and numbers: More »
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