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1937 Delahaye 145 Franay Cabriolet, one of the reserve best of show cars.  At the Best of show presentation, 4 cars are brought to the ramp, and then one is chosen to be the best of show.

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And, as the entire civilized world knows by now ( and by the civilized world I mean the people who are classic car enthusiasts ! ) this car, the 1924 Isotta Fraschini Tipo 8A F. Ramsier & Cie Worblaufen Cabriolet  won the Best of Show award.

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1961 Ferrari 400 Superamerica Pininfarina SWB coupe.  In Preservation class, a 2nd place winner and the object of a feature in the New York times, visible HERE.  Even the mainstream media looks at our hobby once in a while !

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A 1935 Auburn Speedster .

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The final Cunningham race car, the C6R.  LeMans in ’55 didn’t work out with an Offenhauser engine,  and it’s final entry in ’57 used a Jaguar engine and nose.

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Wow ! 1938 Alfa Romeo 8C Touring Spider.  There was a class for bodies by  Carrozzeria Touring, the famous Italian coachbuilder.

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My Favorite duPont  – the 1931 duPont Model H Merrimac sport Phaeton. Look at the body lines, the giant headlamps, and the rakish angle of the top.

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1931 Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 Gran Sport Touring “Flying Star” Spider by Carrozzeria Touring.

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A Reserve Best of show, 1953 Abarth 1100 Sport Ghia coupe.

This is a 1924 Mercedes Benz 630K Murphy Roadster.  Take a look at the clean line of this Murphy Roadster, and realize how advanced it was in the mid-1920’s !

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This 1929 Packard 645 Deluxe Eight Rollston Roadster  was entered by the TV “Gas Monkey Garage” guys.  More TV exposure !

The Actual Brock Yates Cannonball Sea to shining Sea Run Ferrari Daytona.  35 hours and 54 minutes coast to coast.  Subject of at least 2 movies in the 70’s.  Epic!  Biblical!  Worthy of mention wherever car freaks gather !

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The spectacular 1946 Delahaye 135 MS Pourtout Coupe Aerodynamique.

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Supercharger pipes are cool. 1928 Mercedes Benz 680 S Tourer.

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Here’s a detail on the ’38 Graham by Saoutchik.  Note how the door opens – it pops out, and then goes back parallel to the body.  Mind boggling for 1938.  Never to be matched until the 1968 Volkswagen van was introduced!

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A beautiful 1935 Packard V-12 Coupe-Roadster.  Packard coined the “Coupe-Roadster” bodystyle to let people know it had roll-up windows and was still a sporty convertible roadster.  Only 4 years earlier, in 1931, the Packard Roadster had sidecurtains and no side windows.

The Passey Family  Lincoln Locke Roadster.

1932 Austro-Daimler ADR8 Keibl Karoserriewerk Limousine.   A spectacular car fresh from the Nethercutt Collection.

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There’s a happy owner, and although he didn’t know it yet, he is on the way to a trip across the ramp to pick up a trophy!  The car is a 1923 Duesenberg Model A.

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And a Vault Cars Alumni car, a ’32 Lincoln KB.

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And the Gratuitous Hood ornament photo, a staple of Pebble Beach coverage.   This started with the ancient Romans – stay with me here, it’ll only take a little while to get this idea across – the ancient Romans built the coliseum for the gladiatorial games, and spectacles, and chariot races, and the like.  The Floor of the Coliseum was a false floor, built above a labyrinth of tunnels, cages, and ladders that led to trap doors in the floor.  So it was possible for a gladiator to pop up out of the floor unexpectedly to slay an opponent, or to fight a lion.   We now know that there are the same kind of trap doors on the 18th green of Pebble Beach, where the photographers are felled by people ascending the trapdoors and getting in the way of the photos!  Leading the photographers to go for the close up hood ornament shots rather than wait for the whole car to be visible!