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The re-creation of the GM motorama show to celebrate GM’s 100th year was yet another Pebble Beach Concours presentation masterwork!
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If I could have any Cadillac, it would be the ’59 Cadillac Cyclone !
And a great Corvette Choice would be the ’59 Corvette Stingray special – it’s amazing how much of this design wound up in the production ’63 Stingray.
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And the fabulous Buick Y-Job.
The ’53 Cadillac LeMans presaged many of the styling cues seen a year or so later.
The 1951 LeSabre, not given a brand. I guess the 5 GM divisions had to fight it out for brand identity!
The Futurliner in the background, with the ’58 Firebird III. Space- the final frontier! Or at least the era of peak car/missile design! As we all stood on the field, in August of 2008, who would have thought that by November GM would be planning for bankruptcy, and would file by June, 2009. They made it to 100, but just barely!
The 1930 Cadillac v16 452 Convertible coupe by Rollston. Sleek, disappearing top, and look at that windshield!
1932 Cadillac V-16 452 Fleetwood Madame X Sedan. A great write up of this car can be found in the June, 1974 issue of “The Classic Car” magazine, the CCCA publication.
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A very unusual ’34 Buick 91 Club Sedan.
1937 Cadillac V-16 series 90 Convertible Coupe
1948 Buick Roadmaster Hercules Estate wagon. I had one JUST LIKE THIS except it was a ’47 and it was a Super, not a Roadmaster. Don’t you hate it when people come up to you at a show and say stuff like that?
this 1911 Rambler model 65 shows that Ramblers weren’t always compact cars!
1931 Cadillac V16 452 Convertible Coupe by Fleetwood
1935 Lincoln K LeBaron Coupe rolling on the field
1938 Cadillac V16 Fastback Limousine
The Tire King of Long Beach motors on the field in the 1932 Lincoln KB Sports Phaeton.
1934 Cadillac V16 Fleetwood Convertible Sedan
The 1932 Peerless V-16 Prototype with Murphy coachwork.
This was the 1931 Packard Twin Six Front Wheel Drive Prototype sedan. It was top secret at the time, so Packard made a “generic” looking grille to fool the early motoring press Paparazzi. The V-12 made it to production, the front wheel drive didn’t.
1963 Chevrolet Corvette Pininfarina Rodine.
This 1929 Mercedes Benz SSK Barker Roadster looks like fun!
This 1933 Duesenberg Weymann sedan was on the field in 2008. I like this car a lot!
The 1907 Thomas Flyer New York to Paris racer – and of course the inspiration for the Leslie Special in the 1965 Film, “The Great Race”.
Another celebrity, the “Old 16” Locomobile Vanderbilt cup racer
1934 Bugatti type 50 Cabriolet
1904 DeDion Bouton Henri Binder Tonneau. With tire protectors to keep the white tires from getting grass stains!
Just like 2020, the year 2008 with it’s financial crash turned into a Pacer of a year! Not sure how this Pacer made it to the Concorso Italiano, but there it was!