Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at 11:04AM 
For all 175 photos over 3 gallery pages click HERE
The featured themes this year were the Ferrari 250 GTO (roughly 20 of them in attendance!), prewar Mercedes-Benz, and Stutz automobiles. Best in Show was won by Peter Mullin's incredible Voisin.
Look for cameos by Stirling Moss, Gordon Murray, Jay Leno, Ed Welburn, Ian Callum and Jason Castriota!
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 7:48PM 
Concorso Italiano, which was begun in the early 1990s, has become one of the top events in the Pebble Beach weekend. Compared to the rarified air at the Quail and Pebble Beach Concours D'elegance, the Concorso feels a lot more inclusive and down to Earth. Its physical location is a lot closer to Laguna Seca than Carmel, and this is fitting as the event seems to straddle the line between the hardcore gearheads and the straw hat and blazer types. 
It feels more like a typical regional car show where owners sit by their cars (most actually drive their cars in rather than trailering them!) and chat and have a good time. Unlike a regional show, however, the scale of the Concorso is huge, and the array of machinery on display is a vast survey of mostly postwar Italian vehicles. And true to the inclusive spirit of the show, they even added a category for non-Italian cars! 
We had a great time at the Concorso, which has the cars well organized by marque and model. It's really cool, for example, to see a perfectly aligned row of Maserati Boras or DeTomaso Panteras. These are cars that you'd be lucky to see once in a blue moon on the street, yet at the Concorso, you get to see a whole family reunion. It's just fantastic. 
In addition to the more common Italian cars, there is all sorts of wonderful, obscure stuff in attendance. Have you ever seen an Intermeccanica, for example?? How about an Iso Lele? I certainly saw a few cars I had absolutely never laid eyes on before, so the show was very educational. Click HERE for the 2 page Mega Gallery!
Alfa Romeo, Bizzarini, Concorso Italiano, De Tomaso, Espada, Ferrari, Iso, Lamborghini, Lancia, Pebble Beach, concours in Car Events, Photos Sunday, July 10, 2011 at 6:20PM 
Longtime readers know we love our Italian cars over here at Automobiliac, but vintage German machinery can also be ever so cool. There was plenty of it on display at this weekend's Deutsche Classic German car show in Fleetwood, PA. The weather was fantastic and the drive out from the city was about 2 hours of rolling countryside. The show was roughly evenly divided between classic BMW, Porsche, Mercedes and VW, with a smattering of Opel GTs and other unique vehicles for good measure.
In addition to the beautiful cars on display, there was a small swap meet area with vendors selling all manner of replacement parts for German cars. My personal highlights of the day were a pristine BMW 3.0 CS (The owner seemed less than interested when I told him his car was my favorite at the show...) and a really cool Porsche RSK. There was also a gorgeous Mercedes 300SL gullwing in attendance, and Herbie the Love Bug also made an appearance. Click any of the photos to see my entire gallery of the swap meet and car show!
2002, BMW, Deutsche Classic, Germany, Mercedes, Show, VVW Beetle, VW, Volkswagen, concours, porsche in Car Events Friday, June 10, 2011 at 12:34PM 
Sunday was the European car day at the Greenwich Concours D'Elegance. As always, it was great to get up close with some fantastic and rare machinery. This year's event was a little short on real show-stoppers. For example, there was only 1 Bugatti present, whereas in previous years there have been numerous significant ones like Peter Williamson's T57 Atlantic. 
I felt that some of the corrals were being filled out by lesser examples of the respective marques. For example there were 2 XJS examples in the Jaguar area, and no truly rare Jags on display (like C-types or D-types). Overall, the event felt more regional than in previous years, but I still had a good time. As often is the case at car shows, the parking lot provided many unexpected and exciting car sightings, from a perfectly restored Lancia Fulvia HF to a really great vintage Maserati Quattroporte. For me, the highlight of the show itself was a fascinating and diminutive Lotus Mark VI with polished aluminum body and snappy red leather interior. What a cool and historically significant machine! Plenty of pics of it in the gallery. See the full 2-page gallery HERE or click on the photos above!
2011, Greenwich, concours in Car Events, Photos Monday, September 27, 2010 at 9:37AM The summer concours season is at an end, but at least there is the fall driving season. May each of you enjoy some colorful drives this fall.
Porsche 911, SEV Marchal, concours in Moment of Zen 