La Dolce Vita was held Friday, August 14, 2009 during Monterey Week at the Bayonet Black Horse Golf Course in Monterey, California.
Enthusiasts Kerry McMullen and Jerry Kaye founded La Dolce Vita as an alternative to Concorso Italiano, but only after many participants and fans came to the belief that Concorso had lost its way. Thus McMullen and Kaye created La Dolce Vita as a way to have an Italian car show that would “get back to our roots.” A key cog to their strategy was hosting the event at the Black Horse Golf Course, site of many successful car events.
As luck would have it, Concorso decided around the same time to get back to their roots, with the end result being two Italian-focused car events on the same day during Monterey Week, both on golf courses. (Read Concorso reports and photos).
La Dolce Vita, being the new guy on the crowded Monterey block, then changed things up a bit by expanding its original Italian focus to include other European marques. Fortunately for fans, however, they also decided to focus on quality entrants over quantity, resulting in an interesting field of cars and the superb Black Horse Golf Course backdrop.
Where does that leave La Dolce Vita going forward? Time will tell, but we hope that there is a place during Monterey Week for another quality-driven European event. With Black Horse Golf Course as the setting and a quality team at the helm, La Dolce Vita certainly has a very strong infrastructure in place for a strong event in the years to come.
La Dolce Vita Automobili at Black Horse Winners and Picture Gallery (Winner pictures, credit: Dennis Gray)
Best of Show - 1929 Lancia Lambda, Neil Pering, Los Altos Hills, California
La Dolce Vita Award for Best Maserati, 1960 Monterosa-bodied 5000 GT, Thomas Coady, Roberts, IL
La Dolce Vita Award for Best Alfa Romeo, 1957 Alfa Romeo 1900 Primavera, Guido Lanza, San Francisco, CA
VeloceToday.com Award for The Most Advanced Production Engineering of its Era, 1938 Traction Avant Convertible 'Challenger', Mark Rodriguez, Foresthill, CA
Garage Style Magazine Award for Car You'd Most Like to See in Your Garage, 1973 Alfa Romeo Montreal, Donald Reichel, Los Gatos, CA
Sub5Zero.com Award for Best Custom Exotic, 2003 Lamborghini Murcielago, Kevin Cornwell, Portland, OR
La Dolce Vita Award for Best Lamborghini, 2001 Lamborghini Diablo 6.0, Kurt Kline, Plattsburgh, NY
MadWhips.com Award for Most Exotic, 2010 Murcielago LP 670-4 SV, Alex Munday, Everett, WA and CarZi.com Award, Most Extreme Ride, 2000 Lamborghini Diablo GTR, Roy Cats, Cats Exotics, Everett, WA
La Dolce Vita Photo Gallery
[Source: La Dolce Vita; picture credit, Dennis Gray]
I didn’t win anytrhing, but my Abart Martini Racing 100S Ritmo convertible was the most obscure car there
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