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The Best of Monterey Car Week 2019 in Photos

by Darrell Hicks
September 2, 2022
in Antique Cars
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nother Monterey Car Week is within the books. Thousands of nicely-dressed, nicely-heeled creditors and antique automobile aficionados are on their manner home after spending the final week ogling some of the most impeccable two- and 4-wheeled machines ever made. From historical classics to futuristic concepts, there has been something for each automobile nut.

We cannot make it to this 12 months’ festivities, and we convey to you some of the highlights.
69th Annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance

For a collector, an invitation to compete or virtually display your automobile in Pebble Beach is the automobile equal to being nominated for an Oscar. This yr nearly 200 classic cars roll out onto the 18th fairway at the Pebble Beach Lodge to have a good time the art of the auto.

This yr’s Best of Show honors went to a 1931 Bentley eight Liter Gurney Nutting Sports Tourer (pictured above) owned using the billionaire Sir Michael Kadoorie of Hong Kong. The automobile is among six 8-liter Bentleys competing within the display and one in every of simplest one hundred ever constructed.

The Best of Monterey Car Week 2019 in Photos 1

The Gurney Nutting inside the name refers back to the enterprise that manufactured the automobile’s coachwork. At the time, interiors and bodies had been regularly commissioned one at a time through the customer or the producer. This is head and shoulders above the rest.

Other ribbon-worthy competitions on display encompass this 1936 Mercedes-Benz 540K cabriolet, with a frame built by Berlin coachbuilder Erdmann & Rossi. It took domestic top honors in the Mercedes-Benz Prewar class. With the aid of The Keller Collection on the Pyramid, Petaluma, California, it changed into ordered to start using Barbara Hutton, the rich Woolworth heiress, and socialite, to gift her husband, Count Kurt von Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow. Unusual fact: She has it outfitted with decorative exhaust pipes at the left aspect of the car to appear symmetrical. Just 26 of the 540K Special Roadsters had been ever constructed. Beautiful and rare.

Famed Ferrari restorer Patrick Ottis and his spouse, Carolyn, of Berkeley, California, personal the stunning 1955 Ferrari 750 Monza Scaglietti Spyder pictured above. Winner of Ferrari Competition elegance, it is not just pretty window dressing. This prancing horse turned into raced using three of America’s most tremendous racing drivers: Jim Hall, Phil Hill, and Carroll Shelby. It has simply finished an entire -year of mechanical and beauty restoration and is proven here just because it looked back in the automobile’s racing heyday.

Famed collectors Merle and Peter Mullin of Los Angeles very own the 1937 Delahaye one hundred forty-five Chapron Coupe, winner of the European conventional closed elegance, pictured above. It began to start with an open race automobile driven by René Dreyfus and Louis Chiron during the 1938 and 1939 European racing seasons. In 1947, whilst its aggressive profession changed at a cease, the racing frame replaced the grand journeying coupé-fashion body visible here.

When you think of the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, the remaining factor you reflect onconsideration on is hot rods. But this 1931 Ford Model A V8 Roadster is as candy an automobile as they arrive and are built on a chassis that Norm Grabowski purchased for $100 lower back within the day.

In 1956 the automobile turned repainted with the flames it wears these days and nicknamed the “Kookie Kar” a year later when it started on the TV show 77 Sunset Strip and was pushed using a man or woman named Gerald “Kookie” Cookson III.

Darrell Hicks

Darrell Hicks

Amateur travel aficionado. Professional problem solver. Falls down a lot. Student. Spent several years merchandising UFOs in Las Vegas, NV. Spent 2001-2006 writing about cannibalism in Libya. Managed a small team working with human hair in Jacksonville, FL. Spent 2001-2008 investing in carp in Prescott, AZ. Spent 2001-2007 short selling country music in Ocean City, NJ. Spent 2001-2008 short selling cigarettes in West Palm Beach, FL.

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