The Quail organizers held what was meant to be an annual Peninsula Classics Best of the Best Award, bringing together last year's winner of the Concours d'Elégance and the winners of five other prestigious international concours.
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The idea for Concours was born of escaping the winter up north.
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Concours d'Elegance is French for car show: a field of perfect and polished automobiles.
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The events concluded on Sunday with the Concours d'Elegance awards for best car restorations.
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Winning a class or the entire concours can add serious dollars to a car's value.
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The stunning Delahaye brand on display at the Concours went belly up in the 1950s.
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Mr. Marek, who judges classics at the annual Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance in Carmel, Calif.
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It's Monterey Car Week, which includes the Concours D'Elegance car awards show and runs though Sunday.
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La Voiture Noire is making its US debut at the Pebble Beach Concours D'Elegance in California.
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They have also been class judges at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance car show in California.
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To commence its second life in style, the car appeared at the 2017 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.
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The concours marks the 50th anniversary of the GT20003 taking first through third places at Le Mans.
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Paris rivalise avec Dublin, Francfort et Luxembourg, dans un concours qui ne mesure pas d'abord la beauté.
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Cars have their own social network, after all, as this week's Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance reminds us.
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The swooping concept car, unveiled last weekend at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, rejects all notions of practicality.
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Every year, car lovers gather for the fierce, if quiet, competition that is the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.
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The main event is the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, to be held this year on Sunday, Aug. 21.
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A fine layer of flinty ash covered the hoods of the cars at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.
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This car was a multiple-award winner at the 2015 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, according to Gooding & Company.
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The concours shows 200 of the most prized cars in the world, attracting the world's top car collectors.
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Wealth Matters The private Concours Club in Miami aims to create a golf club feeling for car enthusiasts.
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The Ferrari is due to be sold at the annual Concours d'Elegance motoring week event in Pebble Beach, California.
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"For all its global prestige, the concours' leadership recognizes the need to stay fresh, to attract younger enthusiasts," he said.
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Tickets to the Blessing cost just $50 each, as opposed to $375 for tickets at the door to the Concours.
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It won Best in Class at Amelia Island in 2014, and again at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance in 2015.
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At the Concours d'Élégance, Jaguar introduced its E-Type Zero, an electric conversion service for the 1960s British sports car.
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Concours is building 62 garages that will fit six to 12 cars and rent at $2,000 to $5,83 a month.
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Wheels Ed Loh watched a parade of majestic Bentley 8 Litres cruise onto the green at August's 69th annual Concours d'Elegance.
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The Pebble Beach Concours kicks off Tuesday in Monterey, California, marking the start of the auto industry's most prestigious annual event.
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Friday was the first day of the annual Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, one of the ritziest car shows in the world.
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The official Concours held at the Pebble Beach Lodge, dates back to 1950, when only two dozen cars were shown off.
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In the PB 18 e-tron, revealed this week at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, the driver's seat does not swivel.
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Wheels They're classic cars fit for a concours d'elegance, a royal wedding or simply a quiet drive down a country lane.
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If you like cars that never should have never been made, then Concours d'Lemons is a feast for your trash-loving eyes.
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Lalique, Bulgari, Ketel One, Louis Roederer (it wouldn't be a concours without champagne) and wealth-management firms all host receptions or displays.
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Even less — just the cost of sunscreen — are the week's relaxed "mini-concours" in Carmel, Monterey, the Carmel Mission and Pacific Grove.
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The Best in Show winner at Leading International Concours, it was the centerpiece of the Lorenzo Zambrano Collection for nearly three decades.
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But driving the Model S to the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance was also a study in the psychology of the California motorist.
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That compares to $375 (or $325 for advance purchase) for Sunday's Concours d'Elegance on the 18th Fairway of the Pebble Beach Golf Course.
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To celebrate, Bentley is showcasing more than 50 classic Bentleys, including three of the worlds four remaining Bentley Blowers, at this year's Concours.
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The prize-winning 2035 Lancia Astura Cabriolet, once owned by Eric Clapton, won top honors at the Pebble Beach Concours D'elegance in 2016.
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The concours event filled with priceless classics that were, amazingly, not fenced off from the attendees — want a selfie with a Lamborghini Miura?
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Keeping on theme, we travel next to the Concours d'Lemons car show in Seaside, California — a quirky celebration of the world's crappiest automobiles.
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The annual Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance draws 300 pristine vehicles and about 35,000 fancy people to the beachfront paradise for oohing, ahhing, and ogling.
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Every year in August, car lovers flock en masse to California's Monterey peninsula for the country's fanciest auto show, the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.
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The six-day event features auctions and car shows almost every day, culminating Sunday with the classic car competition, the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.
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The startup even planned a grand showcase in late August at Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, one of the ritziest car shows in the world.
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The auctions, which stretched over four days, are held in conjunction with the Concours d'Elegance — considered the Super Bowl of high-end collectible cars.
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RM Sotheby's is auctioning off the majority of the most expensive vehicles, but the main Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance is hosted by Gooding & Company.
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Besides Mr. Metropoulos's Cobra, the concours will have another event evoking powerful automotive memories of the 1960s: a large showing of Ford's G40 racecar.
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Speculation, and anticipation, run high that a further development of the Z4 Concept, seen last summer at the Pebble Beach concours, will be unveiled.
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And the air of refinement in the room ranked a notch or more above warm-weather sales that typically accompany high-society concours events.
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This is the Infiniti Prototype 240, a design concept due to be shown this week at the 29 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance near Monterey, California.
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Le chef Chuck Hughes a ensuite mondialisé le plat lorsqu'il a remporté le concours Iron Chef America en 2011 en cuisinant une poutine au homard.
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In 1988, at 19703, Mr. Hvorostovsky made his first trip outside the Soviet Union, to France, where he won the Concours International de Chant competition.
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The entrants to the Concours Le Mans Heritage Club are judged by an international jury and points are rewarded for authenticity, historical importance and presentation.
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Would a converted — or rather a reconverted — classic really be welcome at ultra-choosy events like the annual Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance in Carmel, Calif.?
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The annual auctions held by houses like Gooding & Company and RM Sotheby's are a highlight of the auto-related events surrounding the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.
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It seems mostly made for showing off at the super-fancy Concours D'Elegance, which is some kind of highfalutin car show at Pebble Beach golf course.
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To celebrate the Miura's Golden Anniversary, the restored SV was shown to automotive enthusiasts and collectors at the Amelia Island Concours earlier this month in Florida.
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In FATAL PURSUIT (Knopf, $25.95), the colorful attraction is the Concours d'Élégance, a vintage car parade and sports car rally to be held in St. Denis.
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During last year's Monterey car week, a series of automotive events leading up to the annual Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance in August, Bugatti unveiled the Divo.
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Bill Warner, the founder of the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance in Florida, estimates that only 22015 people do this type of first-class occupational time travel.
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" He added, "Vehicles ranked in 'excellent' or 'concours' condition represented less than half the offerings — the lowest ratio Hagerty has observed in more than five years.
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The big question before the six major auctions last week that preceded the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance was whether the slow retreat would pick up speed.
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Every August, the days leading up to the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance classic car show in California are filled with events for high-end car collectors.
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General admission tickets for the California car show start at $450 and the show's main event the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance takes place on Sunday, August 18.
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This week, we prepped to cover the annual, ultra fancy Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, where the greatest car buffs get ready to show off their latest dreams.
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Opening the festival is a prestigious spot, but means the film is "hors-concours" - outside the competition, something award-winning director Arnaud Desplechin said was a relief.
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Because at this year's Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, the ultra-luxury arm of Volkswagen unveiled the Centodieci, a superdupercar that pays homage to that 1990 wind slicer.
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In addition to the track, the Concours Club has a 7,000-square-foot clubhouse, where the restaurant will be operated by a popular Miami chef, Brad Kilgore.
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Jaguar Land Rover Classic brought the electric roadster to woo potential customers for its E-Type Reborn program during the festivities surrounding the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.
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Next month, it will be showcased again, this time in its restored glory at one of the nation's premier auto shows, the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance in Florida.
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Kendall and Kylie Jenner met up with their dad at the Rodeo Drive Concours d'Elegance car show in Beverly Hills, California, where she displayed her Austin-Healey Sprite.
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Historic cars race at the nearby Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca track, while the intentionally terrible cars of the Concours de LeMons go on display at a local park.
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Its latest debut was a bespoke electric purple 720S at Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance last weekend, called Fux Fuchsia, named for the collector Michael Fux that commissioned it.
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Yesteryear will be on full display at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, the foie gras-filled gathering that attracts many of the loveliest classic cars on the planet.
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A parade of vintage Ferraris, Jaguars, Alfa Romeos and Maseratis will lead the auctions of roughly 22014,2100 cars in events leading up to Sunday's Concours d'Elegance awards show.
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The Cobra, a 427 model, will make a rare appearance when it joins a "postwar preservation" class next month at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, in Carmel, Calif.
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RM Sotheby's two-day sale was one of five major classic car auctions that coincided with the annual Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance and its satellite events in Monterey.
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And points off means dollars off the car's value, especially in an elite competition like the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, where a 303-point score ensures top dollar.
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But the Concours Club and its ilk do not come cheap, with six-figure initiation fees and five-figure dues that make private golf clubs look reasonably priced.
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Spike Feresten and Jerry Seinfeld visit the Amelia Island Concours d'Élégance in Florida, where a classic-car aficionado is coveting Mr. Seinfeld's 1974 Porsche 911 Carrera 3.0 IROC RSR.
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RM's Sotheby's will sell a collection of sublime Ford and Shelby race cars at the auction house's Monterey, California sale at the prestigious Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance this August.
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The cars in the concours line up on the 18th fairway of the famed Pebble Beach golf course, There's also the "concept lawn," where automakers show off their latest creations.
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The agency was hired by Faraday Future in June 2018 to orchestrate a last-minute event at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance car show, which took place in August 20183.
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The cars, the setting and celebrities — including annual guest host Jay Leno and perhaps Jerry Seinfeld — arguably make the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance the world's most famous vintage car show.
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Today, in front of the super sophisticated audience that the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance tends to attract, company bosses pulled back an electric blue sheet to reveal the Bugatti Divo.
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We begin our pilgrimage at the Maison Aubard, which was founded in 1946 and snagged the gold medal at the 2015 Concours Général Agricole, a French competition for agricultural producers.
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Bugatti will give its La Voiture Noire, the world's most expensive new car, its US debut at Pebble Beach Concours D'Elegance which begins Tuesday in Monterey, California, according to CNBC.
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The Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, the nation's premier automotive event, is on the horizon, and cars built before Hawaii was even a state will sell for millions upon millions of dollars.
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The Concours d'Elegance at Pebble Beach — the Super Bowl of classic-car collecting — kicks off this week, with more than $2275 million worth of cars expected to cross the auction block.
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For some, the annual Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance in Monterey, California—the fanciest auto show in the country—is a chance to spy upon classic cars of which they could only dream.
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The world's most expensive new car makes its North American debut this week at the world's premier luxury auto show, the Pebble Beach Concours D'Elegance, which kicks off Tuesday in Monterey, California.
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The new supercar was revealed in the midst of what is unofficially known as Pebble Beach car week, the days leading up to the prestigious Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance classic car show.
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In February, Metrograph, a specialty arthouse cinema in New York City, selected Simon's film Le Concours (The Competition) as the first film to be released under its new distribution arm, Metrograph Pictures.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In 1935, Marcel Duchamp set up a booth at the Concours Lépine, a French fair for inventors promoting their latest gadgets that still occurs to this day.
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Of course, there were plenty of historical automotive activities throughout the week: sister shows at the Quail, the Concorso Italiano, and the more pedestrian Concours d'Lemons catered to cars of less fanciful pedigree.
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The French super car maker envisioned something more exclusive than that for its loyal customers and returned to its coach building roots to offer the Bugatti Divo at the 2018 Pebble Beach Concours.
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The annual Monterey auctions are timed to coincide with the nearby Pebble Beach Concours d' Elégance, a car show that has been held on the 18th fairway of the golf course since 1950.
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Elkann visited Pebble Beach during the annual Concours d'Elegance, during which wealthy collectors bring some of the world's rarest vintage automobiles to be admired — and sold — and premium manufacturers showcase exotic new models.
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Garella often visits the US to attend events like the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance in Monterey, and in 2007, he looked up the Marconi Museum and made the trip down the coast to Tustin.
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For the more playful and not-so-rich, there's always Concours de' Lemons, "celebrating the awful, mundane and truly awful," a tongue-in-cheek knock off of the grandiose display of wealth across town.
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The Concours was founded in 1950 as a small gathering of cars showing off three classes: prewar, postwar, and MGs, and also included a road race that is now staged at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.
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"It's kind of like a music festival ... Most of us like a lot of different genres of music so why wouldn't we like different kinds of cars," said Sandra Button, the chairman of the Concours.
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It's nine days (a week being no longer enough) of parades, parties, shows, races and lectures that culminates in Sunday's Concours d'Elegance classic car show on the 18th fairway at the Pebble Beach golf course.
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That blend of old and new is one of the things Button says keeps people excited about cars and the Concours, but you don't necessarily need to be a gear head to enjoy the day's events.
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The auction companies, including Gooding & Co. and RM Sotheby's, racked up a total of $210 million through the sales, held in conjunction with the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance, according to Hagerty, a collectible-car insurance company.
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That's what stands out about the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance and shows like it — the grand attempts to recreate the past in every detail— in cars that were so elegant, that they were destined to fail.
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Every August, droves of car collectors gather for a week on the Monterey Peninsula to show off, ogle, and place big-money bids, all culminating in an elaborate Sunday afternoon car show: the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.
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Infiniti revealed its electric speedster concept car Thursday at the 2018 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance in California as part of its plans to feature long-range electric or hybrid electric in every new Infiniti starting in 2021.
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The week culminated in a splashy Sunday afternoon cascade of confetti as a prewar 1937 Alfa Romeo 12025C won the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance best of show, edging out the crowd favorite, a cream-colored 1937 Cadillac.
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Les enfants d'immigrés, rencontrant parfois des préjugés sur un marché de l'emploi longtemps sclérosé par le chômage, ont pu trouver refuge dans les institutions publiques comme l'armée et la police, où l'embauche se fait par concours anonymes.
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The sale, along with big prices for a famed Aston Martin and McLaren supercar, helped push the auction total for the sales at the Concours d'Elegance at Pebble Beach over the weekend to more than $327 million.
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The once tiny garage became a mecca for classic automobile aficionados, pumping out hundreds of million-dollar restorations a year and racking up no fewer than six Best of Show awards at the prestigious Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.
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Acura plans to pull the covers off a sporty new show car at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance in Monterey, California — a six-day feast of automotive luxury and excess that's become the world's most prestigious car show.
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The very-French Delahayes, two-seater Indy cars, vintage BMW motorcycles and art cars, Elvis Presley's cool 507 BMW, and my personal favorite the Italian engineer, designer, and coach builder Bizzarrini received featured treatment at this year's Concours.
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Mercedes declined to say whether this was a prototype vehicle or destined for production, but a spokesman said it will reveal more at the Pebble Beach Concours D'Elegance, a classic car show held in California, later this month.
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In fact, Mr. Vorbach said, two cars with his 230-D-printed parts were in the Pebble Beach Concours this year, although he was hesitant to say which ones before the event, for fear the judges would object.
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"A lot of these guys do this fabulous work for very wealthy people, and the wealthy people get the trophies and the guys who do the work don't get anything," Mr. Warner of the Amelia Island Concours said.
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If you were expecting the auto industry to have a bit of a hangover following the parade of excess that surrounded last weekend's Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, you underestimated the hardiness of the folks shaping the future of driving.
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At the far end of the field, hundreds of yards past the 1930s Duesenbergs, the prewar Rolls-Royces, and the grand touring Ferraris, curious showgoers at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance gather around a particularly unusual kind of car.
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Ronald Reagan, which is slated to begin on September 21 and 22 and is currently on view at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance until August 21, includes a wide assortment of personal mementos, furniture, books, and artwork in addition to Nancy's impressive jewels.
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At a swanky cocktail party on the California coast in the lead up to Sunday's Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, the luxury automaker unveiled the EQ Silver Arrow, a concept that puts a high-tech spin on the car as it once was.
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But this is the first time it's being displayed in the U.S. The Concours at Pebble Beach is the industry's most prestigious car show with automakers often using the six days in Monterey to debut their priciest new cars and concept vehicles.
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Bugatti has plans to roll out at least four more custom-built cars in the coming years, with another super car rumored to be somewhere between the Divo and La Voiture Noire expected to be revealed at this year's Pebble Beach Concours.
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But for the Rodeo Drive Concours d'Elegance, an annual rare car and bike show that takes place in Beverly Hills every Father's Day, the comedian wanted to bring a little surprise and delight to the car lovers and curious onlookers in attendance.
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Estimated Price: $3,2667,262 to $216,2300,21 2000 Alfa Romeo 13C 21 Series V Gran Sport: No better place to buy a Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance Best in Class winner than a Pebble Beach auction, so snap up this cherry red bit of racing history this weekend.
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Estimated Price: $3,500,000 to $4,500,000 0003 Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 Series V Gran Sport: No better place to buy a Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance Best in Class winner than a Pebble Beach auction, so snap up this cherry red bit of racing history this weekend.
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Kirchert explained that the company is using its SUV prototypes to ensure a Level 4 self-driving system, can be properly integrated in future vehicles such as the K Byte, a new concept from Byton that was on display Sunday at Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.
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This year, one of the biggest is the 10th United States Bugatti Grand Prix, expected to attract some 80 examples of the eponymous marque from all around the world to Lime Rock for three days of racing, rallies, a concours and all-around hobnobbing.
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Sadeghi's collaboration with Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults through the 1970s resulted in the production of various animations and books for which he later won numerous awards: including the grand prize of the Noma Concours for Children's Picture Book Illustrations, in 1978.
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The car, a Ferrari 250 GTO, was sold at RM Sotheby's on Saturday night as part of the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance — a kind of Coachella for classic cars and wealthy collectors that includes five days of auctions, parties, unveilings, tours, and races around Monterey and Pebble Beach, California.
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Even a dedicated week of auto aficionado activity – beginning with the fifth anniversary of the prestigious Concours d'Elegance car show in its triumphant return to the U.K.'s Windsor Castle last week and including this weekend's annual classic racing car festival Goodwood Revival - wasn't enough to spark more buyer enthusiasm.
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The car sits halfway between two concepts Infiniti has shown in the past year: the Prototype 9, a fully electric retro-style racer with exterior wheels with room for one that made its debut at last year's Concours, and the Q Inspiration, the svelte sedan that wowed crowds at January's Detroit Auto Show.
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And last week at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, an annual car show in Monterey, California, Jay met up with Raj Nair, Ford's North American head, and Christopher Svensson, its global design lead, to check out the Le Mans-winning GTs on display and talk about what makes these champion autos tick.
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"My teacher, the professor, he didn't like the idea of me having fun and designing a sports car," the 82-year-old Tjaarda told me while looking over more than 1,000 cars gathered for the Concorso Italiano last month in Monterey, California, one of the many events surrounding the annual Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.
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The Escala is on show publicly for the first time at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance this weekend, and reveals a car that takes its name (Spanish for 'scale') to heart, as a larger sedan that previews the future lines of Cadillac's body design, and the next stage of evolution for what it puts inside its cars, too.
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Crowds of spectators watch giant screens displaying the action while sitting on the lawn in front of the house, or get up close and personal with the concours condition classic cars the Style et Luxe display outside the old stables — where somewhat surprisingly, no one seems to mind small children pawing at near priceless vintage Rolls Royce or Hispano Suizas with ice cream covered fingers.
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