Event Coverage Pebble Beach Saturday.....

Had about an hour or so there this afternoon, gonna be back tomorrow for the show proper....





Tramontana!




My fave....



Slideshow HERE

LOTS more Sunday

 

Dave, is the Cord from San Jose? If it is, he lives near us. Saw him out driving two weeks ago down Curtner.

 

Fantastic! Thanks for posting. I cant wait for more.

 

Great pictures . thanks, Gullwings look even nicer with the doors open !

 

Shot tons of pics at the historic races today. Concours tomorrow!

 

A 812 Cord Phaeton w/supercharger is my dream car.... anyone want to trade a basketcase for about 15 cars let me know.....

 

It was parked outside the Pebble Beach Post Office...I was driving past, I'll check it out today tho Sean

 

Thanks for the tour.

 

That Cord is to die for. I used to have a die cast of that as a kid. Thanks for the pics man!

 

Great shots, whata fantastic show...that one is on my "Bucket List"..
When your there today...see if Artist David Lord is there...he usually displays his work, he's from Indy...great guy, great artist...

 

Would love to some year.A local resto shop here in NJ,brought out a couple of cars.A 29? Duesenberg conv.sedan and a 37 aluminum bodied R-R.

 

Thanks for the photos, that is one of the shows that I would love attend.

Chris

 

I'm back....Sunday was amazing....

900 Pics &...I met MIKE ZENOR from The HAMB

I'm off to edit/upload

 

Thanks! Can't waite for the full show coverage.

 

900 pics? Wow, I was shooting like crazy and I doubt I came close to that even with 2 cameras. It will be awhile for me to select the best of the races and the concours. A Horch won Best of Show.

 

I get a little carried away...

I'll likely end up with 450-500 usable ones

The 1937 Horch 853 Voll & Ruhrbeck Sport Cabriolet , owned by Robert M. Lee, was named Best of Show


Photo credit: Dan Neil LA Times

 

Dave - good meeting you! Between me and Kim we had three cameras going, took probably 600 pics. That Horsch was incredible, but my favorite was the Daimler limo from Wisconsin.

The most amazing thing? The porta-potties. I was in one that was like the sparkling Shangri-La Xanadu Taj Mahal of port-o-sans. I guess what they say is true: the rich, they are different than you and me.

 

Geeze...I stood next to a guy; next to this car, in Carmel the day of the tour he said this would would be Best In Show.. I thought how 'da you know?

 

Because it was head & shoulders above EVERYTHING on the field

 

The Daimler was HUGE...we were talking with Bob who restored it, he was the guy in the chauffeur outfit...the V12 has 3 cranks, no valves, 36 connecting rods and NO cams....and weighs 8100lbs!!

He has had cars on the showground for 20 years, 17 customer cars & 3 of his own...he certainly has a good reputation...

http://www.lcars.com/index.html

Oh yeah...the porta potties are pretty nice huh?

 

That Horch is amazing. I recently paid a small fortune for a copy of "The Coachwork of Erdmann and Rossi". There is a whole chapter on Horch and there were some pretty spectabular bodies put on the Horch chassis.

 

Thank you Dave. I was just wondering if you were going to post some pics of this show.

 

http://www.autoblog.com/gallery/2009-pebble-beach-concours-delegance/#2

 

nice pics. maaaan i would give a left or even right nut for one of those bentley speeds

 

by the way, i heard ya pretty much have to give up your first born to get in

 

ooooh!!! or that bugatti.....i think its a t-37. my hearts racing

 

The type 51 Grand Prix car with the DeBois body is the nads. I remember the story of how they reunited the original engine with the car. Spectacular.

 

nah...just a days pay......

 

THANKS! Nice collection of photos, that MT4 OSCA looks a lot like one a friend had back in the 1970's.

 

I'm still working on them...

Not at all...Its $150 in advance, or $175 on the day...Think of it as 2 weekends at the drag races....

And worth EVERY penny....

You need a better job