Sports Car Digest - The Sports, Racing and Vintage Car Journal
Sports Car Digest focuses on Classic Car Auctions, Concours d’Elegance, Vintage Car Racing, Road Rallies and other historic automotive events.
Nine seldom seen Lamborghinis will be on display along California's Monterey Bay at the August 17 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, and Valentino Balboni will being meticulously studying each one. Balboni is not only a 40-year employee of the legendary Italian sports car maker, he is serving as a Class Judge at this year's Concours, where Lamborghini is a featured marque. … [Read more...]
It was a spectacular day on August 3 in Rochester, Michigan when the 30th Annual Meadow Brook Concours drew record crowds to the sun-drenched grounds of Meadow Brook Hall. Over 230 of the most stunning cars in the world were exhibited to the delight of enthusiasts who began pouring through the gate well before the event's official opening. … [Read more...]
Vehicles with engines displacing over 20 liters will be on display, including Jay Leno's tank car, two cars with P-51 aircraft engines and the only non-racing 21.5-liter factory-built Benz Four vehicles with massive engines displacing more than 20 liters, or more than 1,220 cubic inches, will cast their shadows at the August 17 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance. The vehicles, including Tonight … [Read more...]
Ralph Lauren's 1958 Ferrari Testa Rossa to join over 140 extraordinary classic automobiles and motorcycles in Westport, Connecticut on September 20th and 21st for the 2008 Fairfield County Concours d'Elegance With more than 140 of the world's most unique vintage, classic and collector cars and motorcycles participating, the Fairfield County Concours d'Elegance is shaping up to be one of the … [Read more...]
Preservation Treasures, including the First Production Porsche, to appear at Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance Prewar and postwar preservation classes show cars can be original only once Every third Sunday in August, rows and rows of pristinely restored Duesenbergs, Packards and Bugattis decorate the 18th fairway of the Pebble Beach Golf Links. … [Read more...]
The 2008 Barrington Concours d'Elegance will be held October 3rd to 5th in Barrington and at picturesque Arlington Park in Arlington Heights, Illinois. The 2008 Concours d'Elegance will be hosted by the Barrington Area Conservation Trust and Hospice of Northeastern Illinois, with 100 percent of the proceeds benefiting the organizations.Although the Barrington Concours is still months away, … [Read more...]
The 2008 Mercedes-Benz Lake Mirror Classic Auto Festival will be held in downtown Lakeland, Florida the weekend of October 17-19. The Mercedes-Benz Lake Mirror Classic Auto Festival kicks off on Friday evening October 17th with the Budweiser Hot Rod Rendezvous, an outdoor concert in Lakeland's Lake Mirror Park. The main car show and Concours d'Elegance is on Saturday, October 18th at Lake … [Read more...]
Selecting the overall victor at the annual Cartier 'Style et Luxe' automotive design competition at the Goodwood Festival of Speed is never an easy task. However, at this year's event, held on the sweeping Cartier Lawn at Goodwood House over the weekend of July 11-13, the judges duty of crowning the overall winner was made easier by a truly stunning motor car. … [Read more...]
Michigan may not be seeing a tiger this summer but there will be a field full of prancing horses at the 30th Annual Meadow Brook Concours d'Elegance on August 3rd in Rochester. This year's event features significant Ferraris and shines a spotlight on some of the collector world's very best. In Meadow Brook's stellar line-up is the one-of-a-kind 1955 375 America Coupe Speciale custom built for … [Read more...]
The 2008 Radnor Hunt Concours d'Elegance will be held September 12th – 14th on the grounds of the Radnor Hunt in Chester County, Pennsylvania.Now in its twelfth year as a premier motor car event, the Radnor Hunt Concours d'Elegance was first organized in 1997 by Michael G. Tillson, III, a Governor of the Radnor Hunt and a recognized expert on the subject of classics, sports, and racing … [Read more...]
Lancia, the Italian auto manufacturer known for its elegant originality and innovative spirit, will be celebrated as a featured marque at the 2008 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance on Sunday, August 17.The Lancia Stratos HF Prototype Bertone Coupe, which debuted at the 1971 Turin Auto Show. … [Read more...]
The 2008 Goodwood Festival of Speed was deemed by the 140,000+ spectators as the best one yet, with so much going on, that the crowds didn't know where to look first. Just one week after Lewis Hamilton's epic victory at the British Grand Prix, a wildly partisan crowd toasted the Formula One star with champagne as he appeared on the balcony of Goodwood House to the interviewed by popular … [Read more...]
Six types of Ferrari Spyder Californias will appear together August 17, alongside the first showing of the only factory-built Ferrari Superamerica with Spyder California coachwork In 1958, Ferrari began production of a race-inspired convertible named after its best-selling market – the Ferrari 250 GT Spyder California. Only 105 "Cal Spyders" … [Read more...]
B.A.T. 11 will make its North American debut at the 30th Annual Meadow Brook Concours d'Elegance on August 3 in Rochester. This eagerly-anticipated news in the car world, event organizers say, is also big news for Michigan, home to B.A.T. 11 owner, Dr. Gary Kaberle. The debut will shine an even brighter international spotlight on an event that draws top collectors and thousands of visitors and … [Read more...]
Sunday, October 5, 2008 marks the fifth annual Niello Concours at Serrano located at the Serrano Visitors Center in El Dorado Hills, California. Attendees over the past four years have expressed overwhelmingly positive feedback, declaring that the event was a truly memorable experience. Plans are being made for an even more memorable concours weekend with the day of the Concours being the … [Read more...]
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