2017 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance!

as Wimbledon is to other tennis tournaments or the Tour de France to other bicycle races so to the world other car shows is the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance yes that Pebble Beach the legendary Golf Links one of the most beautiful stages in the sport but each August the famed 18th fairway at Pebble Beach becomes the stage for beauty of a very different sort the most breathtaking and historic automobiles in the world each vying for top honors at the world's premier collector car showcase since 1950 the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance has evolved into an unmatched celebration of automotive design and craftsmanship it is also a fierce competition as some 200 collector vehicles are judged on the basis of historical accuracy technical merit and that most elusive but unmistakable quality style - one of these 200 plus hand-picked entries will go the most prestigious award in the collector car world the title of Best in Show in addition this year Pebble Beach will spotlight the cars of asada Fraschini coachwork by Castagna and American dream rides of the 1960s as well as the 70th anniversary of the world's most famous automotive brand Ferrari why from California's Monterey Peninsula welcome to the 2017 edition of the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance we have blue skies bright sunshine and a strong sea breeze that would be a great challenge to golfers on any other Sunday at the Pebble Beach Golf Links but on this Sunday it's simply ruffling the flags above tens of thousands of automotive enthusiasts from around the world who have come here to admire some of the greatest automobiles in history moments ago a team of nearly 60 honorary judges luminaries from around the automotive world were introduced to the crowd which is definitely in a party mood and that's another great Pebble Beach tradition the cars are here as well preliminary judging has already taken place and now these fans most of whom have been here since before dawn to watch those cars take to the fairway are ready for the drama about to unfold and we're glad to have you with us hello everyone I'm Bob Varsha once again this year it's my honor to help bring you the action of the Pebble Beach Concours Alone's now at its heart a conqueror is basically a celebration of the automobile the great cars the designers who conceived them the craftsman who originally built them or restored them - better than new quality and of course to the owners whose passion for these vehicles has preserved them for us all to enjoy off to my right the Schofield of 204 vehicles have come to us from 29 states and 17 countries around the world preliminary judging as I mentioned has already taken place in 27 classes those 27 class winners will be crossing the award stage shortly and we'll show you as many of them as we can because from that group of 27 winners will come the best-in-show joining me once again to provide context for all the activities is the international bureau chief for motor trend Angus Mackenzie Angus once again the Conqueror has outdone itself absolutely if you have an ounce of gasoline in your veins or even a passion for steam electric vehicles because we got them here to Pebble Beach is where you be this weekend we've got 204 cars 41 of them from overseas and cars that really set the pulse racing these are cars that you've only ever seen in books that maybe you've only ever seen on the screen we have some cars that have been in movies here this is the weekend this is the Indy 500 the Monaco Grand Prix the lamorne 24-hour of car collecting this is the event all these entrants most want to win Oh indeed they do want to win now the conquer d'Elegance make up changes from year to year it's constantly evolving but the one thing they all have in common is that best in show honor and only one of them can have it that'll be a bitter disappointment to an awful lot of people it's hard to imagine but you know a lot of the people who connect collect these cars they're very well-off individuals they're people are maybe built companies entrepreneurs a businessman who know how to strike a hard deal I've seen billionaires close to tears when they haven't won here at Pebble Beach there's so much emotion that goes into it it's really is competitive out there and I suppose it's blasphemous to talk about money I mean granted these are very valuable cars to begin with but success on the show field can have a big impact on the value of any winning car well we've seen that over the years I mean look at the prices do Sandberg's have historically commanded or Bugattis and of course ferrari is a perennial favorite here at Pebble Beach and we've seen some up-and-coming marks come along a couple of years ago there was a class here for a car called Ruxton and a 1920s 30s American car front-wheel-drive very interesting little car really only aficionados would know anything about them but now suddenly roxton's are kind of sought-after because of the class here bringing all those cars together for the first time and their values are going up that's definitely the definition of an influencer now in order to see where we are perhaps we should go back to the beginning in 1950 and the very first concore yes the very first Concorde was held here on the Monterey Peninsula in conjunction with the Pebble Beach races held out on the roads in the Del Monte forest and the very first concore wasn't actually how here on the lawn it didn't come to the lawn until 1952 but that first Concorde just thirty cars entered and there were just three different categories so quite a change from from those days indeed in its earliest years showing cars took a backseat to racing them here at the home of a lone cypress and the scenic 17 mile drive with more here's Alan de Cadenet the first pedal of each race took place in 1950 and was won by future world champion Phil Hill in his xk120 but the races started to get very dangerous indeed too many people showed up in 1956 there was a ghastly fatality and accordingly the races had to be moved from Pebble Beach somewhere else well they went to Laguna Seca which isn't that far away but the original roads that the races took place on are still here and my favorite mark of car out from Oleg loaned me this lovely stubby oh so it's an excellent machine go and have a look at those roads you know it's amazing to think that these very roads that we're driving on here that serve all these rather lovely houses here at Pebble Beach used to be a racetrack when those six races were run here in the 1950s and this is exactly where all those heroes of the time came and did their stuff however look at all these pine trees I mean if you flew off here and hit one of those it would not be funny as indeed it wasn't for poor elderly and McAfee in 1956 now I really think if those cars that raced here in the 50s had had anything like the handling I've got in their South for today and the brakes for that matter all the races would have been infinitely safer maybe they would have continued it Alfre mayor of course used what they learn from those cars in those days to better their street cars because precisely of course what they do today this car driving today is the Stelvio that's alpha moves first SUV very much indeed a performance orientated car they have put no end of thought into the design and the performance and of course it shares the same basic platform as the Giulia been a long time coming but I have to say very joyful indeed to drive especially out here on the very self same roads that they had those Pebble Beach races on way back in the 1950s fantastic how important were these Pebble Beach races well I tell you Barry look at Phil Hill I mean he wins here in 1950 he gets himself a 1938 out for a mayo 2.9 he races that he wins races when he goes to Laguna Seca and he winds up in 1961 as a formula 1 driver winning the World Championship what a joy it is to drive here at Pebble Beach a wonderful car like this thanks Ellen who could have guessed back in the early 50s how that humble 30 car exhibition would mature into the world's premier conquered elegance and fill Hills impact on the event extended well beyond the races in 1955 there was a unique double phil hill won the Pebble Beach Road race out there in in the forest and his 1931 pierce-arrow LeBaron convertible town cab reality also won best of show an absolutely unique double and a bit of a trendsetter because that 1931 car set a trend for 20s and 30s grand elegant extravagant cars to be the star cars here at Pebble Beach in 1957 the Pebble Beach Road races moved across the peninsula to the Laguna Seca racetrack but the concord elegance has remained here and gone from strength to strength year after year now also joining us once again this year are our car experts out there in the field admiring the cars critiquing them and hopefully having a great time alain de Cadenet Johnny Lieberman and Edie Lowe are with us let's hear from them now beginning with Allen you know guys I concur with everything you've said about this marvelous show you cannot eulogize it enough but of course what for us is very very special is just normal business for Pebble Beach they call us we come off this as simple as that everybody in the world owns anything halfway decent will just love to have it on the lawn here I have to say for me one of most extraordinary things I've seen this morning are four cars that each one the Mille Miglia thousand mile race in Italy outright 49 car 50 car 51 car and 57 car I mean it is that literally that's how it is here at Pebble Beach Johnny thanks Alan yeah that million winner the 57 is blowing my mind but the cars might be classic the show never gets old and it's not just the great variety and diversity of the cars here but it's the quality of the curation to call these cars the best of the best is a major major understatement and once again I'm humbled and honored to be a part of it and now I'm gonna throw it over to my colleague ed Lowe who's standing out on the concept lawn thanks guys so we're here at one of my very favorite parts of the entire Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance weekend we're at the concept car lawn here amidst all of these beautiful concept cars new and old we have vehicles from Koenigsegg from Lamborghini McLaren Infiniti VW race cars from Acura and Ford including this beauty the only one here that is still dirty from its race win at Lamar this is Ford's GT race car riding on Michelin Race rubber this is the actual winner piloted by Joey hand Dirk Mueller and Sebastien Bourdais fantastic that it's out here amidst all of these pristine and clean concept cars it's really striking to see this race winner out here love it it's also just ahead of another big-time reveal out here BMW z4 concept now this is the next generation of BMWs roadster the z4 and as you can see it's stunning it's got a beautiful black and tan interior 20-inch wheels riding on Michelin Pilot Sport cup two tires we don't know how much power it makes we don't know what the engine is or how fast it is no details they're just showing this off in its concept form all of those other details will be revealed at the Frankfurt Motor Show later this year but man there are some fantastic examples of automotive design out here at the concept-car lon wish you guys could all be here Angus and Bob back to you alright thank you very much Edie and now taking place on the ramp the parade of elegance if these are Auto Fraschini cars one of the featured marks here at Pebble Beach this year isotta-fraschini an Italian automaker founded in 1900 by Cesario SATA and the brothers vincenzo antonio and arrest eight Fraschini and prior to establishing their own company building their own cars they actually assembled Renaud's these cars were very much sought after by the rich and famous in America in the 1920s and 30s and you know film stars like Clara Bow and Rudolph Valentino actually drove isotta-fraschini and I saw it as also featured in films one of the cars here too I was in the film Sunset Boulevard and also in death takes a holiday with Frederic March they talked about vintage cinema now in addition to his duties on the lawn here at Pebble Allen de cabinet busied himself earlier this week over at mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in a vintage example of his favorite mark this is a little beauty that I'm driving here today at the Rolex motorsport reunion at Laguna Seca she's a 1932 Alfa Romeo 8 cylinder Mille Miglia car but won the millimeter thousand mile race in 1932 designed by Victoria Yano some say his greatest creation I'm one of them but have a look under here will you look that is a straight eight twin overhead cam supercharged engine carburetor at the front and it has most beautiful thinned manifold could have been designed in fact by stopped of Bernini himself when I'm going out for practice and qualifying apparently this baby will do 125 miles an hour find out [Music] [Music] well it's true everything they said about this car is what it does it's got bags of grunt it turns in they've sorted the brakes out for me it's a different car without all the weight it had on the spare wheels we took them off and what's really fun is when you come up behind somebody if they're burning methanol and bean oil you get that wonderful stench sweet smell of racing fuel I love it this is something everybody should try at least once in their life looks like fun Ellen now it's time to begin recognizing the best of the best in the eyes of the judges the top car is in each class in competition here on the show field so we're seeing cars now lining up for the first of our row class wins and this is the first class across the ramp today Class A antique so what's the definition of an antique world basically a car built 1914 or earlier and you know we're going right back to the pioneer days of the auto industry and in those days was bit like the dot-com industry there were you know 485 companies was started between 1900 and 1908 in America 485 auto companies that's pretty amazing a Thomas flyer and I think I think this is the one that Johnny Lieberman loves because it has the analog satin or the analog navigation system in it and you can look there's a dial in the car we've set it all up and have told you exactly where you should be at a given mileage quite remarkable we like to think that role smart and clever these days but really in terms of automotive engineering there's nothing new Under the Sun what's what's happened of course is that we've improved so much in terms of the technologies and the engineering capability that we have that we've been able to turn ideas that these early pioneers of the automotive age had into reality that you can use every day the 1910 Thomas flyer so coming up on to the rap now second in in the class the 1906 Pope Toledo type 12 touring and Pope Pope Toledo is interesting Colonel Albert Pope actually was a gentleman who built a number of different cars with a number of different brand names and Pope Toledo was just one of them this particular sedan has an overhead valve 44 horsepower 4-cylinder engine and sold for $3,500 which back in 1906 was was not cheap this is another double winner second in the antique class but also picking up the Ansel Adams award presented to the most desirable touring car of its era of course Ansel Adams the photographer needs no introduction yes it is the winner receives a photograph donated by Ansel Adams his family the top 12 was built from 1995 through 1908 and 720 was sold in a year but only a handful have survived so this is a pretty rare car and these old brass cars have a cars full of character you need to go back to the pioneering era of the automobile when even just going on a 20-mile drive was an adventure looking there the 1913 rolls-royce Silver Ghost Barker torpedo of course Rolls Royce many many automakers like to think they're in the luxury business rolls-royce pretty much invented the game way back in 1904 and provided one of the memorable lines from the final episode of the Downton Abbey TV show when someone said wouldn't you want a bet on mr. rolls and mr. Royce and what they might accomplish when they joined forces or something to that effect I immediately cooked up from the couch on air that was absolutely Henry Royce of course was the the engineer whose absolute passion for precision and excellence is really what made Rolls Royce the luxury brand it is today and rolls-royce cars became luxury cars not because they were just expensive but because they were very well engineered right now we want to join Johnny Lieberman standing by with a regular spectator here at Pebble Beach thanks Bobby I'm here with this guy Jays your name's Jay yes how are you I'm doing all right now you doing good I love the fact that you're covering a car show yeah it looks like a boat show because all the cars are that way the cameras are shooting that way I think that is a certain instinct when you do these kind of it's a car show man look at that one unbuttoned most exciting shape I've seen I know you're new to this whole TV thing but that stuff called b-roll so they're gonna be on a roll car is what we're talking this is C roll so mr. Leno you seen anything here you liked yeah I see a lot of stuff here I like obviously you know this is sort of the Super Bowl of car shows I personally I sorta like the Father's Day card shows words guys with Mustangs and Camaros and there's no real prize I just sort of show up and and you just talk cars I mean this you get to see stuff you only seen in magazines exotica from the 20s and third I mean cars that I never thought I'd ever see in person just show up here and it's fascinating it's really fascinating I saw one of those the the Imperial airflow which I thought they were all dead that belonged to major Bowes major Bowes was a guy if anybody remembers the Ted Mack amateur hour Ted Mack took it over after major but he was the first one and he became quite wealthy and it was you know was a talent like America's Got Talent but it was really huge cuz everybody listened to the only three stations there two stations refresh but no so he had that custom Imperial bill that's a thirty five I saw the car years ago used to belong to a guy named Frank left so the man who bought it really did a really terrific four-year restoration brought it back so it's exciting to see it so one of the things we talk about a lot is we try and predict you know who's gonna win who's gonna win so do you have any that you think done this a few times you have any you've seen that you think might win this year you know it's different cuz my standard is that this is elegance comes first so if you have an elegant car that can barely make it over the podium but if it makes it over the podium it qualifies so it's not you know I don't know it's really interesting I like the preservation class I like cards have been used you know if guys have got tweezers poking pulling grass blades out of the tread you know I think there's a place for that too sure but it doesn't seem like that could should compete against somebody who like to me someone who drove their car to Pebble Beach use some detailer and cleaned it up should get a few more points than the guy who brought it in a trailer well let me ask you them with that with those let's go to the pre-war preservation yeah you see anything in there he liked yes there's a 1916 locomobile down there which is just fascinating oh yeah somebody saved that car somebody cared enough about it you know anybody can save it now sure cuz we Americans just throw stuff away you know I remember I was in England and my aunt lived over there and she introduced me to the local vicar and he goes oh we got motorbikes I've got a motorbike I said what do you have it was a 1962 Honda Bentley and I said oh well that's a rare bike or you collector he goes no I bought it no I mean he's still because they take care of it sure sure we buy stuff we have the hot thing for a couple years right then you eat the crap out of you throw it away it gets giant and then you move on the next thing you know but you go to Europe where cars are perhaps more treasured because they're not quite so common and people take care of them for a long time yeah in local wheels it's a great brand that's the other thing too everyone's forgotten about that but that was love Dadda lack I mean that was like a cool you know yeah that was the wealthy kind of you know luxury bag locomobile was of company they approached the Stanley Brothers Stanley had the Stanley Steamer and they want to buy your company the Stanley said well let's just throw a stupid price out the Stanley Brothers a 250-thousand he said we'll take it oh my gosh they sold it to him and then they built a car called the locomobile which was a copy of a Stanley Steamer but technology is moving so quickly they realized steam is not the future so the Stanley's bought it back for 10 cents on the dollar called the Stanley Steamer again there are very clever businessman speaking of steamers there is I know you're into them but there's a beautiful red and yellow steamer I saw that yeah oh that's that obviously a great car I mean steam is a lot of fun I mean if you like to be involved and you're not really where that's good enough you know you know if you're not there with micrometres and everything that steam is fantastic because it's a real Blackmun's to the blacksmith's tool you know and that's what's fun about it yeah I love ok um so ask you yes Ferraris 70th anniversary right a lot of Ferraris here many Ferraris yeah there's the 250 GTO is there anything else that you liked I would like to find a Ferrari owner with the first wife that would be an interesting because that's that's a category you will never end on that no mr. Lowe no we're gonna end it thank you so much anyways Bob I'm gonna throw it back to you yeah Bob oh thanks guys now let's turn to ed Lowe with another key element of the weekend here at Pebble Beach so one of the greatest parts of the Pebble Beach weekend is at the very start it's the tour d'Elegance and what it is is a collection of some of the vehicles that appear on the concours lawn on Sunday out for a beautiful drive along the Pacific coast and the bonus is if you took part in this event it could be the tiebreaker for Best in Show [Music] now I'm in this car right here this is leading the pack this is the AMG 300 F CL 6.8 the very first race car by AMG my driving partner is Jochen mass the legendary racecar driver Formula One Lamar you name it he's won it we're gonna go for a drive leading this pack and it should be an incredible experience [Music] you're a race car driver you know you were driving the top the highest technology vehicles you really get excited about driving a 1900s vehicle really absolutely I think there's something connected between emotions style the aesthetics do you never lost this feeling of driving a car the pleasure of just moving and driving it thanks ed now not only is the tour d'Elegance a key element in deciding best of show here at Pebble Beach we notice the cars moving through the nearby town of car giving the crowds of car enthusiasts gathered there and up close and totally free looked at these fabulous vehicles and now we move on to the American classic closed catalyst and the car up there now is the Chrysler C L Imperial custom LeBaron sedan and LeBaron is the name that we ended up seeing as a trim level on modern cars but back in those days of course it was a genuine coachbuilder and built some terrific formal bodies for these large cars and a very nice car that one too yes and here comes the first place keeping up with all the cars rolling across the block yes my paperwork straight as this is the 1940 Packard 1807 custom super 8 Rolston sports sedan and this this is a very very racy looking Packer Packard's were generally a little more sober serious sort of cars this 180 series over pack outs top of the range Karpin 1940s and the Rolston bodies were some of the strongest and most over engineered using only the finest materials and this car is actually ordered by a judge in Puerto Rico and it suffered quite a bit down there in the salty air and came back to the u.s. to be restored in 1985 it's back in its original color and it's the first time this car has been shown in 23 years quite an amazing car and picada of course one of the iconic great American companies Packard cars Packard was founded in Warren Ohio and by 1929 was America's premier luxury brand in the in back in the days when a Ford cost $600 a package chassis cost $3,000 it's another double winner picking up the Classic Car Club of America trophy awarded to the most significant classic car present its owners are michelle and martin cosmo from Hills California and now here we are in the full-on Packard class step I believe is the 1939 Packard 1703 super8 Daren convertible Victoria yes we just cars on the ramp now owned by Leon flag and Kurtis LeMond of Whitefish Bay Wisconsin and this in 1939 previewed the new 356 cubic inch engine for the super 8 which continued all the way through to 1950 and Packard had a great reputation for engineering of course during World War two Packard actually built a copy of rolls-royce Merlin's engine for mustang fighters and it's rumored that when they got the drawings from the British Packard engineers found that the tolerances weren't that precise so they went through and effectively re-engineered the engine all over again oh my goodness so so coming up now the 1932 Packard 904 deluxe eight Dietrich sport Phaeton and this is a one of the last custom body Dietrich's built in 1931 Dietrich the body builder and it's a very a very American style of car that v windshield raked back a bit a big long hood those massive chrome headlights nickel-plated headlights up front a classic American car in the early 1970s by Otis Chandler famed collector before going to the Imperial Palace Auto collection so here we have our winner in the Packer class the 1932 Packard 906 twin 6 Dietrich convertible Victoria and Packard introduced its first twin 6 which is a very polite way of saying they had a v12 in 1916 and then introduced another v12 engine in 1932 and this particular Packard is the only 1932 twin 6 Dietrich convertible Victoria left in the world an absolutely unique car winner in class and also the winner of the elegance in motion trophy awarded to the car deemed to be the most elegant in motion clearly to qualify for the award the car must have successfully completed the Pebble Beach tour d'Elegance which is something we'll be talking about as the afternoon goes on and of course as a class winner this car is in contention for Best in Show award is it going to be one of the top contenders for Best in Show pretty early to say yet there are there are a number of cars out there that we haven't seen met there are but early spectacular there is a group lined up three by three waiting their turn on stage these are the juice and bags and I love the juice and eggs these are some of the most extravagant powerful American cars ever built between the wars 1920s and 1930s these were the these were the Bugatti Veyrons the bugatti chiron zhaveri or they were fast powerful good-looking cars and third in the Duesenberg class is this 1931 J Murphy convertible coupe it's one of just 27 fitted with the disappearing top convertible coupe a body by Walter M Murphy and company it was built for a New York gangster apparently who died after a day of owning it in the weather the pressure was too much already had some business issues he had if you want to go at least he had a day with the car wonderful car and some of the back stories on this cars are what make them so interesting the next owner of that car was known as the English Godfather who also owned Harlem's famous Cotton Club and you can just imagine that car back in the day pulling up in front of the Cotton Club now rolling up second place in the Duesenberg class in 1935 JN Rolston berline a more formal sort of car the model J was redesigned in 1935 and the new car was called the JN that's what this one is and it had smaller 17-inch wheels and you'll notice the fenders are skirted there's bullet shaped taillights around the rear the pre first JN chassis was bought by Clark Gable and Duesenberg the like I Sutter Fraschini swerve Airy popular among the hollywood set in the 20s and 30s so this car has a lot of history to it another wonderful backstory this particular car was sold to build Bojangles Robinson the famous Hollywood tap dancer I didn't know there's so much money in tap dancing well it cost a few thousand dollars back oh yes I thought this car might take out the classes are very interesting most juicing Berg's we see look a little earlier in their configuration 1920s cars late 1920s cars this is a 1935 SJ Burman and Schwartz town car and Christian Bowman and marsh warts began their company after Murphy coach works closed in 1932 and bowman and schwartz produced some of the most famous and extravagant custom Duesenberg ever made and this is one of them the Art Deco SJ this one has coach work designed from Mae West that was built for confectionary aerosol Mars Wow even back then I imagine you needed to sell a ton of Mars bars to afford a doozie like that one you can imagine what it takes to keep that car's finish in conqueror condition Johnny Lieberman is standing by with a man who knows exactly what it takes I'm standing here with Jim Holloway of mothers polish and believe it or not this is his very first concorde elegance here at Pebble Beach Jim what do you think I'm awestruck I mean this is spectacular you look at the cars next to us we've got a gyro car down at the other end pre-war it's my first time here I got to take it all in this is my ninth time here and I'm still blown away but I got to ask you so this little elf romão bono coupe were standing next to right it looks pretty spectacular at the moment if I want to get my little Ford to be in concours condition what would I have to do to it how long would it take a look like this well I'm not sure you can put a timeframe on how long it's going to take you to make the car look good what we need are specific products and tools and somebody with the educational set to get it there we like to start with well when you take a look at this car we have professional products from compounds - foam pad polish hand blaze straight paste waxes that we use on nitrocellulose lacquer --zz when you look at the wheels here we've got all kinds of metal polishes sometimes we do science specific where we learn what the metal is and then design a product for that metal so it's a combination of both art and science absolutely a lot of skill set time for our next class Rolls Royce pre-war so third in class the 1937 rolls-royce phantom 3 inskipp convertible roadster and the Phantom 3 was unveiled at the 1935 Olympia Motor Show was the most technically advanced car in the world at the time 727 phantom 3s were built and less than 20 were bodied in the US and all of these were by the Jas inskipp company so this was the day of course when you bought a car like this you basically bought a rolling chassis and that's what you paid rolls-royce for and then to put a body on top of that you paid extra send it to one of the great coach works to your specifications so second in class the 1929 rolls-royce phantom on Brewster a Scott Turow and rolls-royce of course is most associated with being built in the UK in England many many years of crew now near good wooden on Lord marchers property and me a good wood house but Rolls Royces were actually built in America for time in Springfield Massachusetts and the Brewster body company was acquired in 1926 and offered standard Brewster coach work on the new phantom let's have a look underneath this car with the help of our mothers ramp camp and as you can see pristine above and equally soaked below well as Jay Leno's said earlier there are guys out here with toothbrushes toothpicks picking out bits of grass oh yes I thought this car would win the class coming up on first in class pre-war Rolls Royce for 1936 phantom three HJ Mulliner sports limousine and this is a remarkable car me look at that windshield it's a reverse angle wound windshield on it and it the body flows back into a streamlined fastback body quite avantgarde for 1936 this car is nun affectionately as Monte's rose because it was owned for 20 years by Field Marshal Montgomery of Alamein let's have a look under this one with our mother's ramp cam Field Marshal Montgomery the hero of the Battle of El Alamein in North Africa absolutely immaculate everywhere these cars are actually better than new as it rolls off the ramp the co-directors was designed by de Havilland Aircraft Company and built by McMullen or for the chairman of de Havilland that forward sloping windscreen was found to reduce wind resistance by 15% remarkable that's the kind of insight you expect from an aircraft company used by the army and seen in newsreels King George the sixth white Eisenhower and Sir Winston Churchill as we move on to our next class mercedes-benz pre-war and there on the ramp the 1934 mercedes-benz 318 K Cabriolet and the 380 was unveiled at the Berlin Auto Show at February 30 3 s got an eight cylinder 3.8 liter engine with a supercharger and about hundred and fifty 380 pays were built including 16 of this particular Cabriolet and only a fewer 40 survived his car comes to us from China owned by ji Hong Chen of Beijing this year we've seen the first significant arrive on China another great indicator for the future of the Concord for worldwide participation ya care enthusiasm knows no bounds it's passion for cars is a universal language carved people speak a universal language it's a love of cars and all things car ii in the mercedes-benz pre-war class the 1929 Mercedes best benz SS Castagna Cabriolet owned by the Keller collection of course and the s and SS were very expensive cars in the late 1920s and castaigne we see we'll see more of those cars at in the esata Fraschini classes later on there was popular though the bodies were popular among Europe's wealthy car owners they're beautiful yet understated bodywork this cars simple lines were very luxurious interior and a bit of a celebrity connection it's also another double winner adding the mercedes-benz star of excellent award presented to the most significant mercedes-benz present at this year's concorde so that car the the exterior looks fairly restrained but the interior it's got ostrich hide interior and the cars said to have been owned by al jolson and a class winner here at Pebble Beach in 1989 and the rule is once you've succeeded at Pebble Beach you may not return for a decade so on the ramp now is one of my hot favourites for best of show this is the 1929 mercedes-benz S Barker turret this is a fabulous car the car was delivered to mercedes-benz of London and upgraded to full SS 7 litre supercharged specification who with a very special lightweight coach work by Barker of London and it was owned by Earl Howe a famous British racing driver between the wars this car has the ramp presence it has the style to make it a hot favorite the best time now for a review of just a few of the class winners that will form the pool from which our best of show winner will emerge in class j1 for European early classics the winner was a 1931 hispano-suiza j12 Souchak transformable ground looks in class j2 for mid-thirties classics a 37 bugatti type 57s gang glove coupe a and in the younger european classics j3 a 1939 Bugatti Type 57 C vol and Rubik Cabriolet while class j4 for European classic sport models when there was a 1930 Bentley four and a half liter SC vanden plas lamaze sports and in class k1 the top selection is a 1927 casada freshening people ate a Fleetwood roadster is the next car rolls up on stage in class k2 for asada Fraschini Castagna open coach work we have this 1930 asada Fraschini tipo 8a SS castaigne Caprio lay all the way from Slovakia the judges selection in class k3 for asada Fraschini Castagna and closed coach work is this 1929 asada Fraschini tipo de Castagna limousine it was titled as a toy limousine when delivered new to how Willis a Chicago businessman in the world's leading expert on asada Fraschini and it was owned at one time by famed tenor Sergio Franchi winner in class del one for pre-war preservation meaning unrestored cars is this 1931 Bentley 8 litre Vanden plot or one of just 100 examples built due to the economic crash of the great depression it's the only 8 litre bentley racecar built though sadly it never raced and has covered just 7,000 miles now here's another of our class winners Class L 2 for post-war preservation a gorgeous 1963 mercedes-benz 300sl roadster in all its original glory again this is a preservation class entry and not a restoration another international submission as well this one from Switzerland in the em1 class for Ferrari Grand Touring cars the winner is this unusual 1951 ferrari 212 export Vignelli Cabriolet one of a pair of cars designed by Giovanni michelada and built by Carozza Ria's Vignelli our winner in Class M 2 for Ferrari competition cars is this 1958 ferrari 335 sports gallery ft spider coming to Pebble Beach from Austria known as the super testa Rossa and one of just four built it was raced often including the 1990 Mille Miglia historico in the hands of bill hill and on the subject of ferrari we asked second generation race driver Derek Hill to showcase a classic example of the prancing horse one with a special tie to his family this year at Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance Ferrari celebrates its 70th anniversary and one thing we all know about Ferrari is that it has a rich racing history and one of the most iconic series of racing prototypes was the 250 testa Rossa this specific TR 5960 serial number Oh 774 is a very rare unique car in its own right this car not only one bueno Cyrus in 1960 but it won the granddaddy of them all the llama 24 hours they were not able to match the pace of the Ferrari and once again it was a lineage and ap era and donating proceedings basically from start to finish all of that combined with its beauty with its styling and with its success on the racetrack makes it one of the most collectible cars on the planet there is so much to love about this car of course all the testarossa's had the iconic 3 litre v12 engine the 6 Weber carburetors all bolted down to the v12 engine this beautiful plexiglass cover which was introduced in 1959 the biggest difference for the 1960 car was this really tall windshield actually something that my father wasn't too crazy about because after all the grime and dirt and dust got on these windshields you could hardly see anything with the brake lights in front of you and the headlights coming behind you as beautiful as this car is to look at and how much you just like to admire it sitting here statically the only thing that I really loved to do with these cars is to get him out on the track bring him to life [Music] [Music] whoo that was amazing there's nothing like a Ferrari Testarossa v12 won an iconic car a car my dad won in Buenos Aires and the car that won Lamont in 1960 check that one off the list that was awesome the rest of us mere mortals can only imagine thanks to Derek for that profile of an iconic Ferrari redhead and in class m3 for Ferrari major race winners the judges chose this 1957 Ferrari 315 s Gagliardi Spyder featuring a 3.8 liter v12 engine to take on Jaguar and Maserati at the Mille Miglia the car also finished fifth at LeMond later that year the only factory car to see the checkered flag and it is the only remaining example Ferrari one-off specialities make up class m4 and the winner is this 1957 ferrari 410 super america Pininfarina coupe a built on the 410 super america chassis using a 4.9 liter engine it was created for the dutch ferrari collector and north american racing team benefactor yonder vroom of new york city it was first displayed on the Pininfarina stand at the 1957 paris and Turin motor shows in class o14 post-war open cars the judges selected this 1952 Porsche 356 Reuter Cabriolet it's an early example of the Porsche 356 Prix a cab distinguished by its one-piece bent window windshield the Prix a Cabriolet was the top of the porsche range back in the day in the o2 class for post-war closed bodywork the winner was this 1955 Alfa Romeo 1900 CSS bolaño coupe especially a one-off first shown at the 1955 Turin Motor Show the car was originally finished in yellow with a black roof that the bank was changed in period to Italian red and then restored to its original glory the winner in class oh three for post-war racing cars is this 1952 sciata 208 CS Corsa bertone Spyder in 1952 giuseppe bertone himself raced this car the ownership chain includes Lee Holman of Holman and moody racing Fame here in North America who sold it on in 1970 we mentioned at the top of the show that the competition among so many Kars is at the core of the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance case in point Alan de Cadenet is standing by with an entry for post-war closed cars that did not win the class but it's certainly worthy of a car lovers attention for now feast II like me this is truly one of the most special cars here at Pebble Beach it's 1954 Alfa Romeo 1900 C SS SS the sprint speciale II it's got an aluminium body by the Garter on it and just look at this beauty complete and utterly restored in Italy every single eye is dotted t's crossed they've left nothing out it's even got its original Nardi steering wheel and what's beautiful about this car on top of that is that it ran in the middle of Melia in 1955 56 and 57 and therefore has I would say as good a history as any other Alfa here today thanks Alan continuing now with our review of the class winners in class full for four post-war grand touring machines the winner is this 1947 delahaye 135 MS Vigo knee and Falaschi Cabriolet this fabulous example of the French coach builders art often called the narwhal design after the wail of the same name is one of just seven similar cars built by Fagin II and Falaschi and in class are for American dream cars of the 60s the winner is this 1965 Pontiac vivant herb Adams roadster created by Pontiac engineer herb Adams Pontiac styling cues abound and the mechanical components include the rare 370 cubic inch v8 engine this is the cars first public appearance in more than half a century the winner in class v4 open-wheel race cars is this 1907 Renault a i-35 45 horsepower Vanderbilt racer a 12 point 3 liter race car built in 1905 by Marcel Renault for the Vanderbilt Cup races on Long Island it's so impressed patron William Vanderbilt jr. that he had one built for himself leading to its nickname the Vanderbilt Renault and such as the automotive treasure assembled here at Pebble Beach that we're barely halfway through our legion of class winners with more still to come I'm Bob Varsha with Angus Mackenzie Angus how do you feel about the winners that were announced I think a stellar show this year and some real cars that you'll see hopefully as Jonny and Alan get in to come in to position their roost our cars a couple of cars I liked I liked the the mercedes-benz with the Barca body 1929 car it has real ramp presence and hopefully we'll see that car shortly big surprise here to the preservation class there's the 8 litre bentley in the preservation class that the outside word is this could be in with a shot at Best in Show which would be absolutely remarkable for Pebble Beach you heard Jay Leno talking earlier about guys picking bits of grass out of the tires with toothpicks this is a car that's not restored and imagine a card not restoring not being restored winning at Pebble Beach that hasn't happened since the 50s and the other car I like there's a there's a Bugatti with a fallen robot German body on it very elegant car though I think it might struggle with with the design of the grille it's just a little bit confronting but some very interesting cars today well stay with us through our final hour still to come of course live here on the air is the announcement of Best in Show right now let's get caught up on the class winners with Johnny and Allie thanks Bob this is Johnny and I'm sitting here with a gentleman named Paul who has restored this gorgeous rolls-royce phantom 3 behind me Paul could you tell us a little bit about the history of this car that just won its class Sir Alan Butler the chairman of de Havilland Aircraft and they found with the aircraft that they have and they found that a windscreen like that was good in a wind tunnel so he had it HJ Mulliner coachbuilders build that windscreen onto the car but then when the war came he gave the car to the war effort and it belonged to the ministry during the war and it was mainly Field Marshal Montgomery's car but it was also used by Winston Churchill and Eisenhower so the provenance of this car is pretty incredible I mean that's that's some real heads of states plus a military legend fantastic history fantastic car fantastic history you can't do much better than that do you think this car has what it takes to go across the ramp I think it's got what it takes but when you look around here at all the cars it's up it goes it's a tall order well Paul thank you very much for your time and I wish you nothing but luck what you see here is a bit of an odd piece one of the very special and unique entries at this year's Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance that is the one and only 1967 gyro X prototype a two wheeler balanced by an onboard gyroscope with a 1.2 liter engine and said to be capable of 125 miles per hour theoretically now to something a bit more contemporary from our friends at Alfa Romeo if you take a look at alpha male ever since we reintroduced into North America we came with the offices of Julia that first you know performance sedan that we've introduced it in a long time actually the first one that it brought Alfa Romeo back 20 years later since 1995 and then obviously the vehicle I'm standing by right now which sir Alfa Romeo Stalvey Oh our first SUV we're bringing in the market what makes this vehicle unique to the Giulia is that we have standard all-wheel drive systems but no worries it's a rear-wheel drive bias system so it will allow the power to be transferred to the rear wheel drives completely as well unnecessary to really give it alpha male driving experience it's very important for Alfa Romeo to be obviously at the Monterey car we and the passion is truly here and we want to show the loyalty we've had for these people carrying on the passion for the brand when we were not in the US over the last 20 years it's an honor being here it's not our being around all these historical vehicles and obviously it's a great opportunity for us to you know introduce a new vehicle as well in the crowd waiting we're getting closer and closer of course to the big event the Best in Show award cars are being pulled out of the compound where Johnny and Allen de Cadenet are and there'll be three of them lining up one of those three cars will be our Best in Show in the meantime as the next car rolls up on stage I don't know what the attendance record is for the Pebble Beach Concord elegans but I have to guesstimate that this year's crowd may be among the biggest effort anywhere there is an empty space along the railing of the upper levels or here on the ground at the 18th green there are people looking at these cars now let's join Johnny with another of our class winners hey Bob I'm standing in front of a 1929 Mercedes Benz s-type Barker tour and it is a stunning exquisite car and sorry getting bumped here it sits as blue and silver it's absolutely core it is actually long on the body it has these weird outboard on tune figures that contained the toolkits the brightwork is exquisite and if I was a thinking man I would say this is probably a lock to actually win the entire thing but absolutely incredible car Bob I'm gonna send it back to you all right thank you very much Johnny and that was the car that I think who will go all the way here this year at Pebble Beach an absolutely spectacular car so that's your choice each of our on-camera hosts will have the opportunity to pick a car that they think will win Best in Show before the actual announcement is made meanwhile that blue number you just saw on the stage is a 1909 dude I am Bhutan BV type duck horse winner of the Charles a chain trophy who ordered the car for the most advanced engineering for its era and now a vehicle from the very early days of America's automotive history the 1904 holzman model free runabout and this is what's known as a as a hi wheel car for obvious reasons and these were built often using carriage horse horse-drawn carriages as their base and the reason was back in the day of course America's roads weren't that develop and you needed a car like this with high ground clearance and those sorts of wheels to straddle the tracks in the road one of the fascinating things about each year's Concord elegance is the fact that it's a very human process it's hard to imagine what a judge might pick certainly the professional judges who picked the class winners are experts in their field but when the class winners are on the stage if I may use that word by the honorary judges who are not necessarily professionals they may be designers they may be racing drivers they may be celebrities of one sort or another but they're gonna go with a very subjective sort of view of what they think deserves Best in Show and that's what makes this so interesting that's the x-factor in here you know the the elegance the the the the subjective opinion and you know some of the car designers that our honoree judges him very very experienced they absolutely know a good line a great panel a nicely proportioned car they know all that stuff so there's a lot of expert opinion going into finding that elegance and once again the green ribbon on the front of the car indicates that it took part in the tour d'Elegance a special tour around 17 mile drive and the Monterey Peninsula ending in Carmel California not every car participates but the ones that do automatically win the tiebreak for best of show if in fact they tie in the opinion of the judges with another car we've got a Maserati up on stage right now for another of the special Awards this is the Vitesse elegance trophy being awarded to a 1956 Maserati 300s fantasy racecar only by only Shambaugh events and France of course that the Maserati brothers founded Maserati and there was five of them but there was a sixth brother who was an artist and he is the one who designed the logo with the Trident and now it's time for another class winner with Johnny thanks Bob I'm standing here with a 1958 ferrari 335 Sport testa Rossa it's a body but Scaglietti it's obviously open top car it's a spider and you know this is a big year for Ferrari being the 70th anniversary of the brand this particular one won its class and it's just stunning first of all I'm of the opinion that all non red Ferraris are cool this thing is automatically cool and you can see the velocity stacks up on top of the hood there's some sort of composite clear plastic thingy and it's just magnificent leather on the hood plus she had hood pins I think it was like it lamahieu had to have leather to hold the engine the the engine cover down some other races he had to have pins yeah this is about as good as Ferraris get and this is why it won its class here at Pebble Beach and this car was actually you know it's an interesting history - it was ordered by Luigi Chinetti of course was involved with NART North American Racing team for Ferrari and eventually wound up with Phil Hill Derek's father who raced it at the 1990 Melia Mia Mia recreation so just this kind of a fasiq car and again it was yeah just lovely winner so I'm gonna go ahead with that and I'm gonna toss it back to you Bob all right Thank You Johnny and Angus we certainly haven't had anywhere near enough time to talk about the 70th anniversary of Ferrari and their presence here at Pebble Beach and it is a special it is a special moment in automotive history as you mentioned Ferrari is the world's most recognized automotive brand in 1947 Enzo Ferrari after cutting his teeth in racing with Alfa Romeo before the or decided to go out on his own and build his own rate own race car in the very very first Ferrari had a v12 engine the 1 to 5 s and the 1 to 5 stood for the capacity of each cylinder and 1 to 5 times 12 is one and a half litre 12 cylinder engine now back to Johnny thanks Bob well it is their 70th birthday party so I'm going to do another Ferrari and this is a really spectacular car it's red but this one deserves to be red we are looking at the winner of the very last Mille Miglia this is the car that won in 1957 the last year the race was run it was I believe Wolfgang von trips and Piero da retarget foo feet pardon my pronunciation anyways they won the car with this race it's absolutely incredible it's a big beautiful 3.8 liter v12 car and you know that particular class they were saying if you had all 10 cars together it might actually near be near a billion dollars in value and this is the one judged to be the best and I mean I'm telling you just being in the presence of this car is it's it's fantastic there are so many stories that are part and parcel of a legend of Ferrari meanwhile currently on the stage I believe this is our winner of the Jules human most elegant open car a 1929 Mercedes Benz s Barker tourer owned by Bruce McCaw of Bellevue Washington yes and we're going to see more of this car later today I'm convinced absolutely stunning with its original marshal lighting on it a British body you might notice as they pan along or if the camera drops down you'll see those torpedo-shaped running boards there they look spectacular but they also serve a purpose there's even were tools and other essentials that you needed for motoring back in those days and that was Bruce McCall the white motoring cap as we spoke about earlier there's an absolutely gorgeous Bugatti about to take its turn on stage this is the gang left that Johnny showed us just earlier again a car that is very much to type for Pebble Beach Regardie of course as one more times here than any other mark nine times in total can this car make it a tenth I'm not sure I think it doesn't quite have the appeal of an atlante it's a style of Bugatti that we've we've seen before and is very familiar on that on that ramp there so it nothing wrong with the car per se but this is competition is just so intense that I think it might struggle and as the car rolls across we'll go back to Johnny with another class winner I am standing here with a 1952 Porsche 356 Reuter Cabriolet and you know as 911s kind of jump up in value I think that there's the three five sixes are becoming much much more interesting and much more desirable this is a very early one they built 294 Porsches in 1952 and only four of them ever made their way to the US it should say for cabriolets and this is one of them and it's you know absolutely stunning it's a pre a it's a bent window car and I did obviously it's a class winner Bob I'm gonna throw it back to you all right Thank You Johnny Robert Ingram the owner of that car very well-known collector in the North Carolina area of course a lovely Ferrari up there on the RAM and as the 55 375 plus Pininfarina Cabriolet speciale winner of the Strother and McMinn most elegant sports car and well deserved and it was the second Ferrari built for King Leopold of Belgium in the last 375 America so great back story to that car and as we've mentioned before it's it's not just the cars themselves it's the stories that are associated with these cars that makes them so fascinating still known around the Pininfarina company as the car that never grows old absolutely classic style and the of course the crowd still here getting closer and closer to finding out who will be the three contenders for the coveted Best in Show award here at Pebble Beach looks quite a bit different does the 18th fairway here at the Pebble Beach Golf Links then when say the annual National pro-am is held around this loop and as you can see the lawns stretching back there that the crowds of people still around all the cars the corporate hospitality area is still full and the crowds will stay here till the cars start to leave we've heard of dorm patrol where you hear first thing in the morning well some of us have started dusk Patrol we watch the cars go out at the end of the night well it's true that golf begins again next week so I'm sure the turf crew here at Pebble Beach is anxious to take back their 18th fairway now let's rejoin ellen de Cadenet well just to show you how popular Pebble Beach Concours are look who I have here this very very well behaved dog I must say he's looking at every car that comes over he's having a good sniff around he has his sort of sartorial mistress there with a Louis Vuitton bag and I've asked him what he thinks might win best the show what do you got to say that I think he wants to eat my microphone but he's a beautiful looking dog and I just thought that was a nice sight attraction from a car back to you guys well it certainly helps to pass the time and it is a long day here at Pebble Beach as Angus mentioned earlier from the pre-dawn hours when hundreds and hundreds of people show up just to watch the cars roll onto the fairway they do not touch the grass of the golf course until the Sunday morning of the Concorde and they're arranged by group they're here all day for all of the festivities all the way through best of show and then as I just mentioned earlier it's time to move on out to let the mowers back out here we saw some of the cars that have been class winners and disappointing that we weren't able to show you the American dream cars from the 1960s one of my favorite classes and and Pebble Beach does this every year it brings cars that are perhaps outside what you would expect outside the extravagant cars of the 20s and 30s the brass cars of the pre-war era and the exotics from the 1950s and 60s these American Dream cars some of them were great one car the TechSmith xr6 hot rod I can remember seeing as a young guy growing up in Australia an old copy of hot rod magazine I read everything about that car has come to Pebble Beach and actually see it there in all its metal and fiberglass glories just spectacular now as we mentioned there is no possibility of a tie for Best in Show because there is a unique tie brake system in place called the tour d'Elegance and the cars that participated in that tour have the advantage in the case of a tie amazing to see almost people is still standing around waiting for the word to be passed down we're all just waiting briefly as you take another look at that luscious Ferrari I'm sure alain de Cadenet would describe it as and you heard the name Luigi Chinetti mentioned a connection with the NA our team North American Racing team he want to win a bet in the bar sometime challenge some fan as to what which American first one overall at LeMond they may say Phil Hill note the answer is Luigi Chinetti naturalized American yes but the first American flag winner let's go back to Alan can anyone in that car we have here car number 22 that little Ferrari he won that well that's that's who drove with Lord Selsdon who unfortunately was ill and Eddie did about one hour of the driving but look what we've got here you see this 535 on the front that is the time in the morning that this car left Brescia on its way down to Rome 500 miles away and then back 500 miles to press here for the whole thousand mile race in 1957 and I've already I think explained what happened in that poor race a tragic race when in fact but portago went off and unfortunately they had to cancel the race but I have to say this car is absolutely immaculate I mean the guy who owns this car is known for immaculate machinery it's a very pure car it's got its original body original engine it's making a wonderful wonderful noise and I have to say actually wait a minute is that Paris I see there your jag so have you driven your father's car yet no not yet you want to drive this that you eventually how soon will that be we'll see you want me to have a word with him I think so like that would help my chances okay how nice is that yeah that's Jack the owner's son and what more wonderful thing to get your hands on than that if you're a teenage guy but it's about 440 horsepower I believe that gives it's a powerful car we've got two other cars sitting here and obviously these I think we're going to be choosing the best of show from a gorgeous Packard 1932 that's a twin 626 is another way of saying v12 in fact again this car absolutely immaculate example of its type packard bill phenomenal cars their engineering was second to none and I think we may have heard the story already that in World War two when Ford did not take up their contract to produce Merlin engines for Spitfires and Lancaster's and Mustangs etc Packard did and thank goodness they did because the Merlin was of course the engine that won the war I had a good look at this car earlier and it is again truly immaculate and the gentleman who owns a chip corner also known for you know the way that he restores cars the best of the best I might just have a quick word with him chip this is a great joy to see you and Jackie here I mean how lovely is this where you expected to be I think I've learned after the passage of years never to expect too much but it is always such a thrill for me to be going up to the ramp for anything at all and to be here today is just fabulous I entirely agree with you you you're not known for liking to come second but we'll see what happens and of course we we have a most immaculate car here that used to belong to Earl Howe in England 1929 Mercedes Benz Barker Tora yet another car you see that look at it it's painted in Earl house blue it's owned by a gentleman who's a member of the same family that owns the Ferrari Bruce this this looks to me like we might have a bit of an inter family a little challenge here rivalry I think yes yeah I said I wonder when the last time there were two brothers on this road do you know that's a very good question I guess is a historian here can probably tell us oh how never did things by halves I think every car he ever owned he looked after Eddie they raced them they rallied and they did all kinds of things I mean your car is looking immaculate yeah it's it's an extraordinary car for the extraordinary history well I'm not taking any sides but I am is so nice to have two three good friends here so back to you Bob all right thanks very much Alan I think it's an appropriate time to select best of show for that lets go to Derrick Hill on the microphone [Music] it's a windy here let me catch my notes the 67th annual pebble beach Concord elegance best of show winner is the 1929 Mercedes Benz s Parker tour by first armored car from Bellevue Washington [Applause] there you have it Bruce macaw competing incidentally against his brother John the owner of that 57 polari can get these spiders takes home Best in Show with this incredible 1929 Mercedes Benz s Barker tool room [Music] and as I said early on this car caught my eye it's got everything everything a Pebble Beach Best in Show winner needs it's got great ramp presence it's got scale and size to it it looks spectacular it looks elegant it looks fast it really is a wonderful car its ownership chain includes Earl Howe British racing driver and co-founder of the renowned British racing drivers Club whose headquarters are at the Silverstone circuit and features prominently in each year's Formula one British we're on the crease it's had a continuous history and and when we were able to find some great period photos and really figure out how to get the car back as it was correctly it was just a thrill and it's been a great project I really want to say thanks Steve Babinski for the restoration Thor Thorson and my company and and Sandra thank you for having us I mean I'm thrilled Bruce let's get you out of the car okay [Music] it's a very compact car and the owner is gonna find his way to get out of the car now and so the ceremonies will begin Bruce macaw emerges from his car I suspect given the collection between the brothers macaw not the last time that they will take home Best in Show here at Pebble Beach it's going to be interesting around the dinner table tonight you won you buy but you know you saw yes you know that a lot of the gentlemen who own these cars now they're not as young as the people who raced them back in the day when you're a racing driver you get in and out of your sports cars quite easily that's a very long car but it's very cramped in the cockpit German sound rebuttal with the trophy and a very proud Bruce McCall there this is the big one look at that smile a very very happy man look at the crowd of fans looking for a photograph no Bruce fairly well from his days as a car owner in Champ Car what imagine he'd be happy to stand around and allow people to take these picture as long as they like long as they include his cause [Applause] [Music] terrific car the wheels right forward that great big long engine gives you the classic proportions from late 1920s early 1930s I used to I used to draw pictures of cars like this as a kid it just seems right somehow and it's an old saying if it looks right it is and spectacular looking car you'll notice the positive camber on the front wheels they're back in the day with a solid axle that you needed that to help you get some front-end grip into corners and it was quite an effort to drive these cars quickly but very satisfying a lot of power of course with these big Mercedes engine in this Cup sort of car that could cover a lot of ground very effortlessly at the time it is the equivalent to to having a very you know super car today pretty much back when most people were driving small Fords and Chevys when Bruce McCall receiving a beautiful Rolex watch from Stuart VIII on behalf of Rolex he also received a photograph of his car from Michael Furman of coachbuilt press and finally there will be the crystal champagne here we go Gregory fellow president and CEO of GUI rotary winning at Pebble Beach is a gift that keeps on giving unofficially I believe this is Bruce macaws first best-in-show win at Pebble Beach but not the first for his family brother John knows what it feels like because he has won it previously a little different from the champagne celebration on the grid of a Formula One on the podium of a Formula One race well these gentlemen know what to do with a bottle of fine champagne you don't spray it all over the ground a toast the great show great quality of cars this year cars we haven't seen before some spectacular cars the preservation class Bentley stole my heart stole Johnny's heart I know Ferraris of course 70 years of Ferrari how could you not have a great Ferrari no not sure what to say but I think this is such a great organization I make Sandra and the entire staff do such an incredible job and it's a great thing in this community and I hope it continues on for many many years to come but just very special well thank you and you've been such a terrific entrant over the years and you always surprise us with something just absolutely beautiful and magnificent and well deserved it's wonderful to see I want to congratulate again to our best of show winner and all the other Award winners today we will be taking the best of show winner to the media for interviews once again the stages we've heard reserved for the winning car and we appreciate your help and staying clear of the ramp area shall we let's get in another interview for you Bruce thank you again so much you were you weren't even nervous there when I just spoke to you beforehand and it's one of the greatest honors one of the greatest honors I think well I I don't know how to feel so anyway I I think I was quite nervous but what do you do well I know you to be a car man through and through it's a very large part of your life philosophically and I know you love driving cars and being involved with them and this is just one of the top accolades that anyone can ever have in their life it is I mean it's fantastic I I just don't know how to how to describe it well just have it have a happy joyful time and and drink champagne and enjoy life well well done you and your team that did it for you as well I mean the quality of workmanship we had a great team I mean Stephen bents key who did the restoration and Charles Bronson did a lot of the the historical work and found a lot of the parts we needed in Thor Thor Thorson and my company and it was a team effort and we just decided we want to do it wanted the car to be exactly right not too much not too little just as it should be so well you are a very noble custodian the posterity I got I can't say better than that what a wonderful thing to do yeah thank you very much oh well done thank you Bruce and Ellen that car will be there for pictures for a while but there's one more treat for the fans as all these cars leave the 18th fairway here at the Pebble Beach Golf Links they form a spectacular parade on their own time for some final thoughts thank us well apart from our little difficulties it was a great show we're already starting to see are we getting our own little show now as the cars line up to go but quality again spectacular cars cars I haven't seen before in the metal and the eclectic nature too as I've mentioned everything from brass cars to the most extravagant 1920s and 30s cars the exotic cars from the 50s and 60s but I loved the American dream cars that was sort of like childhood memories for me brought to life and seeing cars that had raced here at Pebble Beach - back in the 1950s it reminds you that you know Southern California was a hotbed of creativity in terms of the automobile industry and it's one of the reasons why every major automaker in the world has a design studio in Southern California a great great show great great cars and great stories to tell now time for a final thought from Johnny Lieberman thanks Bob yeah you know this is an interesting year for for me personally I think for all of us because it was pretty obvious to say who the class winner was gonna be but the overall winner you know with my head it was it was gonna be that Mercedes from the start I got a picture from a friend of mine at dawn patrol said this has to be the winner the scuttlebutt was that car would probably win that Barker tour because it was so magnificent but you know your heart takes you to strange places for a hot second I thought it might be the roles maybe you know it's the the new phantom just came out and that Rolls phantom 3 owned by Field Marshal Montgomery and then I was thinking man that that Bentley 8 leader was so fantastic but oh and then when the Mille Miglia winning Ferrari showed up as a top 3 I said seven years of Ferrari that could be it but in the end the car that again you know should probably should have won one so I think we're all happy but you know just another incredible year here at Pebble Beach and Bob I'm gonna hand this one back to you thanks everybody all right thanks very much Johnny and by the way we have not yet been informed of what next year's honored mark will be I'm sure that information will be coming along shortly and one other note next year the US Amateur Golf Championship will be hosted here at Pebble Beach and as a result car week here on the Monterey Peninsula and Capps as always by the Pebble Beach conquer to elegance will be moved back one week and will take place on August 26 so mark your calendars now and let's get a final thought from Allen de Cadenet you know Bob and Johnny and Angus and Edie I have to tell you this has been for me an exceptional Pebble Beach in spite of a few mishaps we've had at one end I think the most noble of all the cars here won the event but to have Mille Miglia outright winning cars as I said at the top of the show to have the more winning cars all the valuable and wonderful Ferraris that you could ever expect to get a sunny day no problems for anybody else except us pause a lot that didn't gaffer couldn't get on the air when things went a bit wonky but all together a very very satisfying day for me I've had a wonderful time and I I cannot think really of a better custodian of a car than Bruce McCaw and of a more delightful machine to be the very Pebble Beach champion Bob very well said Ilan thank you and I'll second everything that you just said don't forget next year the 68 Pebble Beach Concord the gods will be on august 26 that we hope to share it with you then again most profound apologies for the technical difficulties that affected us earlier in the broadcast but in the end we're glad we were able to bring you best of show and most of the class winners it has been indeed a great weekend here on the Monterey Peninsula of California our thanks to everybody involved with the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance and the Pebble Beach Golf Links for their hospitality this weekend we thank all of you for standing with us through a long day here in California so for Angus Mackenzie Allen de Cadenet Johnny Lieberman and Ed Lowe I'm Bob Barcia saying so long from the Pebble Beach Golf Links Pebble Beach California [Music] you

Channel: MotorTrend Channel

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Rating: 4.5910363 out of 5

Keywords: car show, classic, vintage

Id: wbTl8RXvONE

Length: 90min 9sec (5409 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 06 2017