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.
The Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este 2012 will be held on the weekend of 25-27 May over the grounds of the Grand Hotel Villa d'Este and neighbouring Villa Erba on Lake Como in Cernobbio, Italy.The 2012 edition of the Villa d'Este Concours d'Elegance will again see a small grouping of the finest classic automobiles and motorcycles displayed against the incomparable backdrop of Lake Como. One … [Read more...]
Photos by Alessandro GerelliThe 2012 Retromobile event was held February 1-5 in Paris. During the five days of Retromobile, the temperature in Paris was very cold, which is why I spent lot of time inside the exhibition looking here and there.Often watching the beauty of the cars, the observer misses the geometry of the exhaust tubes, the elegance of the water radiators, the details of a … [Read more...]
The Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance returns to Amelia Island, Florida on March 8-11, 2012 for the 17th running of the automotive event. Held at the Ritz-Carlton on Amelia Island and the adjacent Golf Club of Amelia Island at Summer Beach, the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance is much more than the big show on Sunday, with several days of poster and book signings, seminars, driving tours, … [Read more...]
The 2nd annual Celebration of Automobiles, scheduled for Saturday, May 12, 2012 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, will feature an expanded lineup of events that continues to pay tribute to the heritage of automotive development at the track for more than 100 years. A vintage and historic car show featuring cars from 1920-70 once again will be the focal point of the 2012 Celebration … [Read more...]
The Kuwait Concours d'Elegance 2012 was held February 15th to 18th at Marina World in Kuwait City.In only three years, the Kuwait Concours has jumped to one of the top-tier automotive events worldwide, an envious position for such a young event. Much credit is due to its organizers Paul Goldsmith and the team of Ahmad Al-Anzi and Zakaria Dhashti of the host Historical, Vintage and Classic … [Read more...]
The car whose name means “she goes” will be the focus of activities on April 21-22, 2011 at the International Motor Racing Research Center at Watkins Glen.The Elva is described as “deceptively simple—and surprisingly competitive” by the publisher of an award-winning book about the marque, Elva: The Cars, The People, The History, by racing historian János Wimpffen. … [Read more...]
Report and photos by Alessandro GerelliThe Cavallino Classic 2012 was held January 17-22 at the Breakers Resort Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida. Well-known to Ferrari enthusiasts worldwide, Cavallino celebrated the 21st anniversary of its annual meeting this year.The 2012 edition of the Cavallino Classic celebrated the Ferrari GTO, Vignale-bodied cars and Aston Martin. The event included a … [Read more...]
The inaugural Concorso Atlantico celebrating Italian automobiles will be held Saturday, March 10, 2012 at the Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort on Amelia Island, Florida. Owners of vehicles of Italian heritage are invited to display their vehicles on one of the Omni’s golf courses bordering the Atlantic Ocean.“We are looking forward to hosting a great selection of Italian marques for … [Read more...]
Report and photos by Csaba KissThe bigger, the better – that could be the most appropriate motto for the 2012 Retromobile Salon, which opened its doors for the 37th consecutive year February 1-5, in Paris. Although the main location, the Porte de Versailles Exhibition Center remained the same as in the past years, Europe’s biggest classic car exhibition and fair moved to larger halls, the … [Read more...]
A historic motoring event will be staged at famed Windsor Castle to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in 2012. With full permission of Her Majesty The Queen, the inaugural Windsor Castle Concours of Elegance will take place within the inner courtyard inside the walls of Windsor Castle from September 7-9, 2012.Windsor Castle Concours of Elegance Creative Director, Jeremy Jackson Sytner at … [Read more...]
New Year Meeting 2012 - Starting the Year Off in StyleReport and photos by Len ClarkeFor auto enthusiasts in Tokyo and its surrounding areas, the end of January means the New Year Meeting, an annual event that brings together an almost unimaginable array of cars and assorted vehicles, both domestic and foreign, for a day of auto-sensory overload. It’s a car lover’s dream.Organized … [Read more...]
A Ferrari 330 GTO will be among the featured entrants at the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance 2012, scheduled for March 9-11 in Amelia Island, Florida.“This is our ‘marque car’,” said Amelia Island Concours founder and Chairman Bill Warner, “It’s the car on our website and, with its deep and pronounced hood bulge, the most recognizable and voluptuous of the GTO breed.” … [Read more...]
The sixth season of the Goodwood Breakfast Club events will see an interesting and eclectic mix of themes for 2012 when Goodwood stages the events on the first Sunday of the month.The Goodwood Breakfast Club will remain free to all visitors. This allows car and motorcycle connoisseurs to enjoy a Sunday morning drive through the quiet West Sussex country roads down to Goodwood, where they are … [Read more...]
A special screening of "The Quest" documentary film will kick start the 2012 Arizona Auction Week festivities on Sunday, January 15 at the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix. This special event will benefit the Chip Miller Charitable Foundation.The documentary “The Quest" chronicles the efforts of a son to fulfill his late father's dream to reunite the first Corvette to win its class at Le Mans in … [Read more...]
Report and photos by Anamit SenThe Cartier "Travel With Style" Concours was held March 12, 2011 in New Delhi, India.Royalty from India and abroad, a philanthropist, Formula One, sports car and aircraft interior designers, a former supermodel who still turns male heads with her daughter, a singer, a French actor, a British newspaper editor, a trio of Americans – two industrialists and a … [Read more...]
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