Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance 2018 – Replay

nestled in a crescent of land where the Pacific Ocean meets California's Monterey Peninsula Pebble Beach is a place that inspires passion to many people that passion means golf as the famed Pebble Beach Golf Links recently hosted the US Amateur Championship and next year will welcome its sixth US Open but once each year the 18th fairway at Pebble Beach is given over to the passion for the world's most elegant innovative and stylish automobiles not merely on display but in competition in pre World War 2 Europe an event was created to showcase both the newest models from continental car builders and the hot Couture of the world's great fashion houses it was called a Concorde d'Elegance amid the conflict the idea disappeared it was reborn on the west coast of the United States in 1950 and soon classic cars were honored as part of a day of sports car racing on local roads within a few years the races moved elsewhere while the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance flourished in addition to shifting from new cars to classes Pebble Beach turned the focus from mere display to a competition focusing on meticulous restoration engineering and style the annual selection of the cars rose to the highest standards the judging the most exacting the result is the unmatched quality of the rare and priceless automobiles each year this year once again more than 200 rare and historic automobiles have arrived from around the world to compete for the most coveted title in the collector car industry the honour of being named best of show they represent familiar classic marks such as Duesenberg Cadillac Ferrari and Mercedes plus the whimsical Flair that is unique to Pebble Beach including the debut of exotic creations for the noble families of India the fabled American Tucker and the innovative French Citroen the stage is set the judges have made their selections join us now as we honor the very best of the very best at the 2018 Pebble Beach Concord elegance on a typically beautiful warm sunny and breezy California day the world-renowned Pebble Beach Golf Links have been remade into the focus of the collector-car world at the site for the 68th edition of the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance hello everyone I'm Bob Varsha and once again this year it's my pleasure to host our streaming coverage of this great automotive event if you're not familiar with the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance you should know that it is the end cap on a week of jam-packed automotive related events all over California's Monterey Peninsula from vintage cars on the racetrack to single mark conquer here and there around the peninsula there are also forum discussions art exhibitions six major collector car auctions that you'll be reading about in all of the automotive magazines around the world and the days to come and a whole lot more it's an absolute bucket list week for any fan of the automobile now moments ago here at the Pebble Beach Golf Links Derek Hill the emcee for the Concours d'Elegance and son of course of the great Formula one champion and car restorer Phil Hill introduced the team of honorary judges to the audience that's collected here to see these beautiful cars some fifty automotive experts make the initial decisions on which cars will cross the stage and one of them will be selected for best have shown now joining me once again I'm pleased to welcome the international bureau chief for Motor Trend Angus Mackenzie and everybody's favorite automotive expert and raconteur Allen to catenae Angus great to be back at Pebble Beach what are you looking forward to absolutely I think from what I've seen walking the lawn this morning this is going to be a blue-ribbon year there are some absolutely fantastic cars here which might sound unusual given we always see fantastic cars here but I really think this year it's stepped it up a notch there's some truly stunning machines out there with some fabulous stories to tell how about you you guys I'm very big on tradition and heritage and if there's one event of this nature that's steeped in both of those its Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance unbelievable selection of cars I met a lot of old friends out there this morning walking around most of them have two legs but quite a lot of them had four wheels I'm really looking forward to this show it's going to be fantastic a little bit as our parade of elegance is about to begin about what's new and different about this year's event the Pebble Beach concord elegance always wants to evolve with new things for people to enjoy each year and they have a handful this year they do and I think there's some always new classes that come up at Pebble Beach and this year new classes that we're seeing the Eisenhower dream here are convertibles you know the 1930s with a Gilded Age of American automobiles but the 1950s were also there that was the rocket Age of automobiles and so we got some fabulous convertibles from there we've got post-war cut custom citrons I know when Johnny Lieberman walks the field he's going to be all over those cars fabulous cars and we've got a collection the largest gathering of Tucker's I think that there has ever been and likely ever to be something like 13 cars plus a selection of cars from the 1960s Indianapolis 500 and amazing race cars and an amazing evolution of technology in such a short space of time there's some fantastic fantastic cars now let's introduce the other two members of our all-hands-on-deck Motor Trend team for this year's Pebble Beach Concord elegance please welcome editor-in-chief ed Lowe and senior features editor Johnny Lieberman welcome guys thanks Bob it's such a pleasure to be here as always again as you guys mentioned a spectacular you know culmination was spectacular week the Sun here at the Concours d'Elegance great weather a bit breezy but you know keeps us cool and you know as a guy said you know just some fantastic machines out there on the lawn yeah just echoing what you and Angus said I mean the quality you wouldn't think it like last year's the best cars in the world and this year they're kind of better you know and as always in August is nowhere I'd rather be than right here at Pebble Beach watching the show absolutely now one of the other new elements of this year's show and you'll hear more about it later is the J AI the Japanese automotive Invitational celebrating the Japanese Nations and it's car cultures contributions to the automobile there are some fabulous examples out here and we'll have more on that a little bit later on right now the parade of elegance continues a carefully hand selected group of cars that demonstrate what the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance is all about which is craftsmanship in the restoration originality authenticity and style yeah and it's not a speed competition but the cars actually have been on the road that the tour d'Elegance which happened on Thursday cars that do participate in that if there is a dead heat in the judging if there is a tie on points then the car that has competed in the tour d'Elegance will get the knot so it's been fantastic to see these cars in motion and concours is very much about authenticity it's the technical merit and the style of the car and the way it's being restored the respect for the tradition and the heritage of the past now if you look at the staging areas the cars pass across the stage you'll see hundreds of people camped out many of those people have been here since dawn's early light this morning to get the best possible perspective on the fabulous collection of cars that will cross the block once the initial judges selections are in the third second and first place cars in each of our two dozen classes will cross the block there they will be judged as they go by by another selection panel and one of those cars will be selected as best to show the tension builds right to the very end and we hope you'll be with us for it [Music] we'd like to take a moment and recognize a family that has competed at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance longer and with more success than any other this family has spent 60 years with us and has taken home six best of show trophies that's right six JB Nethercutt started that tradition when he captained upon his first collector car back in 1956 a DuPont in awful condition with bumpers missing and fabric flapping out of the window he bought it nonetheless and spent 19 months restoring it that car was named best of show here in 1958 for the past 14 years their son Jack and his wife Helen have carried on the Nethercutt family tradition bringing us several fantastic cars thank you Jack and Helen for your devotion and dedication this was the first Hispanic our former co-chairman Jules J human who once said that winning best of show in this car in 1972 was surely the most thrilling day of his life we want to take this moment to honor J and all that he did for their cars for this concore and for the collector-car world J along with Loren Tryon work passionately for nearly three decades to make this concore the best it can be he was responsible for bringing together the Bugatti Roy Alves in 1985 he became our chair in emeritus and even in his 90s he helped us get a new perpetual trophy we LJ a great debt and we want to express our thanks to his family to his daughters Leslie and Jan and his wife Barbara thank you for sharing Jay with us the 28th class is here this year more than 200 vehicles more than 68 different automotive brands and you know we talk about the auto industry and how it's changed all those 68 brands there's probably only 21 of them that are familiar to people today 21 known to exist it's a fascinating industry it's an industry that consumes a lot of money and there's been a lot of broken hearts and shattered dreams from entrepreneurs try to get into the car business over the years well we often say the cars come from far and wide and it's it's no joke 17 separate countries 31 states here in the USA have entries to cheer for this year's event now of course the first concore was held here in 1950 at Pebble Beach in conjunction with the road races but it's been held right here on the lawn in front of the lodge since 1952 and in 1955 Derrick Hills father Phil he had a 1931 pierce-arrow here that won best of show when that set a theme that's been present ever since more than 30 years only twice has a post-war car won best of show here will this be the year I'm not sure the pre-war cars here this year are as we've talked about they're over the top they're amazing this year fair warning to our entire team I'm going to ask for predictions about this year's best of show winner you've just given a bit of a clue as to where you ought to direct your attention when you made your pick now while ceremonies continue up on the stage we want to call your attention back to last year's best of show winner cars are such a part of you know human advancement and there's a lot of cars a lot of stories and often the story is more interesting in the car I'm the oldest so I was probably the bad influence over my other brothers and we we had a lot of fun when we were kids early on I mean I I got into vintage racing and started acquiring different interesting cars to drive the vintage races and it sort of builds a collection and my brother John I think was the next one to really get interested and he started vintage racing and Craig came all along a little later he got deeply involved in it you know I think part of it just growing up you know enjoying driving I don't think there's any rivalry between us it's just something that I guess was sort of innate in us we've all taken great cars to Pebble that's what's sort of ironic about last year you know I don't think any of us are driven to sort of go there to try and win I never have been I'm not aware of any time that two brothers have ended up going for best or show until I think Alan de Cadenet came over and asked what it was like competing with my brother in an interview I think that was the first time I sort of thought I guess we are competing and Chip Conner was the other car up there and he's a good friend of both of ours so he it was sort of interesting the three good friends are sitting there were three totally different cars and you know I don't think I realized until just a very few minutes before that this was the best of show lineup and one of the three of us was going to win and they're all great cars any one of them certainly could have been up there and I guess I got lucky this year we're taking a type 46 Bugatti that I bought in Europe three years ago I just sort of became enamored with the car it's a nice honest car that you restored quite a few years ago but it's a very presentable car and and then a load of 34 racing car that was quite a famous car with Jimmy Clark Dan Gurney AJ Foyt Parnelli Jones all drove the car have several wins and a lot of holes I thought it was a really interesting car and a real piece of history I mean to me cars attractive thing about cars at the end of the day or the people and the people at Pebble there's so many fascinating people and the cars are what pulls everybody together I mean people come from all over the world for that event it's you know it's a real crossroads and I don't think there's anything it really competes with it but again it's you know I've had so many friends involved with it for so many years it's it's just a chance to see a lot of great nice people and have some fun with them well at Bruce macaw he and his family are back once again this year with another fabulous car right now our top three cars in each of our classes is taking to the stage so let's pick up the action there the winner in Class A for antique cars a 1910 Thomas flyer M 645 passenger touring and of course Thomas says a lot of people may remember a movie the great race well in 1908 car two years younger than that one older than that one competed in the great race which literally was a race from New York to Paris 13,000 miles and won the event it was nowhere near as glamorous as the movie and there was no dick dastardly in in the evil machine but it was quite an achievement and this six cylinder model was first demonstrated in 1909 they took all the gears out except top in Reverse and made it climb up and down a bunch of mountains in the Adirondacks and in Bob drew back through to Buffalo so quite an impressive car back in the day and this is not the actual model who won the Paris the New York to Paris race that is in the HERA collection the National Automobile Museum in Reno Nevada I've seen it and I investigated that story and it was a huge story at the time because on New York Times correspondent rode with the car across America up to Alaska once it jumped the Bering Strait to to go into Asia and continental Europe so everybody that read the New York Times was reading about this fabulous car and all that it accomplished so as class winner the Thomas flyer goes into the hopper as a work for best of show moving on to our next class be for vintage era sporting in third place a 1923 steyr type 6 Targa Florio ran vagan this is fantastic car because stars are very rare the company got merged in with Daimler and Pook but start still builds cars today Magna Steyr actually makes the Jaguar I pasted the Jaguar EPA's and BMW 5-series and over the years they've made cars for almost every car company in the world so it's still it's still here fabulous color now moving up center stage second in vintage or a sporting 1921 page model 666 Daytona speedster what a fantastic name Daytona speedster added its because a stripped-down production version of this car actually reached a speed of a hundred and eight point five miles an hour at Daytona in 1921 I mean that's getting on think about that yeah that would have been quite a ride so fantastic name and not not the first and not the last car to be called Daytona of course that wasn't on the Speedway which wasn't fill till around 1950 that was on the sands of Daytona Beach with the Atlantic Ocean lapping at the tires and taking the victory in vintage or sporting 1921 Kisel 645 Gold Bug speedster this nicknamed Gold Bug came from a journalist who ran a promotion in the Milwaukee Journal in which a young girl called the car a Gold Bug due to its color and it was considered one of the 100 top sports cars of all time and most expensive models curt were equipped with Kissel's hollywood option of nickel plated bumpers and an exhaust cutout and you just imagine that echoing through the hollywood streets you know no muffler and an open exhaust those were the days and if you've been following the long road to Monterey Motor Trend calm you are very familiar with the Gold Bug and the creative workshop in Dania Beach Florida seen that car restored and here it is moving on to Class C one American classic open third place 1932 Barbarin 12 160 a Phaeton and this is an era this is the Gilded Age of the American automobile from the late 1920s through to World War two you had straight-8 v12 and even v16 engines with extravagant coachbuilt bodies on them and of course air at labahn cords oven automobile company it's own v12 to compete with Lincoln pierce-arrow and Cadillac and that was the engine the power at this car it was really an arms race in terms of cylinders and engines back in the day just think 1790 $5 knew back in 1932 second place in the class on 1935 Auburn 851 supercharged speedster very familiar silhouette absolutely at one of the most iconic American cars for the 1930s designed by style by ex Duesenberg designer Gordon Buick and it's considered to be his masterpiece I mean it it looks like it's doing a hundred miles an hour standing still I mean look at how low that hood is the umbilicus got the arm hanging out there and of course the pipes coming through the side of the hood they're just a fantastic profile on that car beautiful machine and actually owned by one of the company's test drivers back in the day I think that's all the imprimatur I need and first in class an American classic open check this car out I'll give away my pick right now for Best in Show it is this 1937 Cadillac series 90 Hartman Cabriolet this is an utterly extraordinary car it looks like its body by Fergana and Falaschi but in fact was built by a Swiss body builder called Hartmann on a Cadillac 90 V 16 chassis the thing is 22 feet long and it was ordered by a Swiss playboy who wanted to impress his buddies get something that was bigger and flashier and faster and I think he certainly succeeded this car was shown at 1936 Paris salon it was parked in 1939 after it had been involved in several accidents it was probably a little too big to drive on on European roads and I fell into disrepair and after many many years it was bought for the princely sum of nine hundred and twenty-five dollars a lengthy and thorough restoration by noted collector Jim Patterson it's great to see it here it is just stunning we'll move on to our next class c-2 American classic closed in third place a 1931 Marmon 16 sedan and the 16 in this instance is the number of cylinders under that hood yes it's a mom and B 16 and it was billed as the world's most advanced motorcar knows arrival to Cadillac v16 so it's an eight liter overhead valve 16 cylinder engine had 200 horsepower and a typical V 16 with a saloon body like that was capable of 95 miles now doesn't sound much today but that's a lot of automobile to be hunting along at those speeds 8 litre overhead valve 16 cylinder engine making new power and now rolling up is all the class placing cars must do under their own power second in American classic closed 1930 Ruxton see Edward G bud manufacturing company sedan unusual name it is but roxton's we've commented on these before there was a class here recently on roxton's advanced car front-wheel drive and a very low long body line to them that was most unusual not many were built it was meant to compete with the Cordell 29 less than 100 Ruxin's were actually produced and the paint scheme on this car is designed to make it even look even longer and lower than the normal and pretty spectacular car look at the proportion the hood on that car is almost as long as the cabin one of only 19 known to survive moving on to the class winner eligible for Best in Show this 1938 Packard 1604 super 8 Mayfair coupe a new Packard was on the last word in American luxury and this super 8 they managed to survive through the depression quite well by by offering 8 cylinder as well as four v12 engines and this car has a an 8 cylinder engine in a straight-8 engine what's interesting about this one is it has an English body on it was sent to the Mayfair carriage company in London for that body so you can see in the vernacular of the design it has a very different look to it it most definitely is an English body a kind of impro file could be something from a rolls-royce or a Bentley a very large car but only two doors really really interesting window line on that car - the rear window drops down the rear passengers get a great great view of the road moving on to class d4 Packard in third place in 1937 Packard 1508 12 convertible sedan well Packard was once the last word in American luxury big formal stately cars are almost like an American Rolls Royce so it's appropriate it's always had a a class here at Pebble Beach for it's all Packard vehicles and this particular car 15 series it was a 12 cylinder car and among the most popular 12 cylinder cars surprisingly sold in America you wouldn't have thought there would have been much of a market for it in the 1930s depression here America but Piccard managed to survive especially selling in over five thousand dollars a copy second in class rolls to center stage a 1932 Packard 904 deluxe eight Dietrich convertible Victoria the the Packard was offered with 21 different body styles and including six designs by Raymond Dietrich and this is one of those cars this is a rare deer trick built for a Victoria I'm one of only four eight cylinder model 904 deluxe eight convertibles produced by Packard this year has a a 135 horsepower 384 cubic engines inline straight-8 engine so that accounts for that long hood line there's a lot of engine under there a very formal looking car very imposing the typically pack on and finishing first in class 1931 845 deluxe 8 Durham convertible roadster and it's the eight cylinder pack odds are doing well in the class this year another another 8 cylinder car and this one has a number of special features in it including a crank down top which added a hundred dollars to the price tag now you think of options these days is costing you thousands and dollars but back in the day $100 was a considerable amount of money to lash out on an option other unique features are the dual mounted rear spares and the chrome hood doors add to its sporty nature nature pack outs weren't really sporty cars but this is as sporty as it gets and this is the third appearance at Pebble Beach for the car the first in 1982 the second in 1999 and this time it takes first in class eligible for best of show close pack out founded in 1929 in Warren Ohio and had a reputation for engineering built v12 engines for Mustangs and spit fire fighter planes during World War Two onto Class E in third place for the Rolston coachwork class a 1935 Duesenberg SJ in Ralston convertible coupe a a chiapetta Beach Concours celebrates one of the great coach builders once nearly all cars were coach built - you had a chassis and someone put a body on top by the 1930s coach build cars were for luxury vehicles although the practices making comeback in in the 21st century Ralston was actually founded in New York located on West 47th Street and the name actually came from the partners admiration for the Rolls Royce that was built in Springfield Massachusetts so hence Ralston Ralston named Ralston one of the premier coach work builders out of their New York factory in the 20s and 30s finishing second in the class now entering the field and up on to the ramp a 1931 Minerva type al Ralston convertible sedan Minerva is a name not many people will have heard of it's a Belgian luxury car built during the 1920s and 30s and this is the only non Minerva al with American coach work so it's got a six point five liter eight cylinder engine I think there were night sleeve valve engines with head mount valves down the side of the piston boys which made them very quiet and very smooth and the this is a very elegant car the rake of the windshield and the side pillars were matched to give the car the impression of speed even while it was standing still this car one of several double winners picking up both a class honor and a special award his car wins the Classic Car Club of America trophy awarded to the most significant classic car present both those awards being presented now and we await the rival of the class winner in the Rolston coachwork class II roastin buddies were regarded as one of the strongest ever in the classic car era that were very well engineered very solid bodied cars and here comes the class winner in 1934 Duesenberg SJ Ralston convertible Victoria the Duesenberg SJ in some ways you could say was the bugatti chiron of its year at a time when most cars which struggled to make 60 miles an hour an ordinary car this car could do 140 miles an absolutely extraordinary supercharged straight-8 engine with 320 horsepower and of course the Ralston body one of the signatures on those cars is the big mesh area on the side of the hood and you can see just ahead of the wheels there a mesh you can look right through and see that magnificent engine that car comes from noted collector Bob Baer from Paris Maine the name sounds familiar and you're a racing fan you know Bob Baer as the man who put New Hampshire International Speedway into pride of place on the NASCAR monster Cup Monster Energy Cup us a schedule every year now moving to class f1 motorcars of the ROG very special class this year this one limited to rolls-royce and Bentley vehicles in third place in 1935 Bentley three and a half liter anthem Drophead coupe a and for me this is one of the standout classes at Pebble Beach this year garage it's a Hindustani word for rule and that signifies the period between 1858 and 1947 when the British had direct rule of India but India itself a country with a history going back 5,000 years was basically a patchwork of 700 princely states and some of them were quite wealthy and they splurged on wonderful cars in the early 20th century and this car was displayed at the Paris show in 1934 and was sold to the Maharaja of culture who loaded the current row troopship and sailed into Calcutta in 1942 I know the Pebble Beach Sherman Sandra button and her crew are terribly proud to have this contingent of great coach were cars from India a first for the Conqueror second in class a 1937 rolls-royce 25 30 HP gurney Nutting all-weather tore room and this car is one of three identical cars shipped to India before World War two and all three survived today and this actual car was used by rolls-royce in its advertisements in Indian newspapers and the winning car in class also a Rolls Royce a 1935 phantom 2 Continental gurney Nutting streamlined coupe a this is actually the poster car for Pebble Beach Concours year this car and it that's was sent to gurney Nutting on behalf of the Maharaja of Jodhpur who specified the green and cream paintwork that you see there today that we're his official state colors and the car was Dillon to Bombay in October 1935 this particular Rolls Royce is one of five phantom two Continentals exported to India and the last of 280 phantom Continentals built by rolls-royce also another double winner picking up the lucious baby trophy for the Rolls Royce considered most in the tradition of Lucius a bon vivant served among the early judges here at Pebble Beach absolutely spectacular car the color scheme is really makes it stand out it's got such a presence that car and well worth being the poster car for this year's Concorde now the Raj in the cars there were a lot of rolls-royce and medleys sent to India because the roads weren't that great and the rolls-royce and Bentley cars had a reputation for durability now over to Cape cope with a row so it's unusual to see so many cars other than Rolls Royce here and the cars of the Raj that they've bought up now are interesting because they're not Rolls Royce or Bentley which is it's right this is class f2 for non Bentley or rolls-royce motor cars of the Raj this is a 1930 Stutz M LeBaron for passenger speedster 3rd in the class and it was ordered off the stand at the London Motor Show in in 1929 and it's one of the few students from new in right-hand drive of course in India they were the same as the British market it was used for long-distance travellers one of the the only non Stutz in India well at this point we will go to the stage now we want to take this opportunity to present this year's Laurent Ryan winner the Laurent Ryan award is presented to a car enthusiast Esther has made significant contributions to the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance and the collector-car world the award is named in honor of a man who served as co-chairman at Pebble Beach for 27 years Lauren Tryon he was a leader mentor and friend of our event and above all dedicated his entire life to the collector-car movement presenting the Lauren Tryon trophy is chairman Sondra button the 2018 Lauren Tryon award goes to his Highness Rana Mon vendre Singh bar Hwanhee from the royal family of bar Hwanhee in Madhya Pradesh India [Music] man bender sink bhavani helped us get the cars from India for the cars of the maharaja feature in 2012 and also for this year's motor cars of the raj he's joined by his family and he's had such an important impact on collector cars in his home country India of course exploding becoming one of the large markets in the world for new cars and you know India Tata the company Tata of course is now is Jaguar Land Rover so it's been a switching fortunes if you like we now have an Indian company in charge of one of the world's great British brand names van Rijn we talk often about the passion of the people who find these cars and maintain them and restore them to such pristine shape well earlier in the week our alain de Cadenet had the opportunity to speak with a couple of gentlemen about their cars Jim Patterson and David's adora their cars are both best of show contenders both from the 1937 model year but very different in many ways the Cadillac that you're sharing is an exceptional automobile built I believe for a young man in Switzerland yes he wanted the biggest and baddest car that he could possibly get is designed by a fellow named Hartman but Hartman was influenced by Feghouli Falaschi who did a lot of outstanding French designs and also the if you look at the front of it it has a little bit of Souchak which was a very famous body builder at that time David you've been bringing consistently great cars to people what over 20 years yes addition a exception Alfre Mayo to 900 be there Lunetta this is a very beautiful piece of automotive architecture built on a Grand Prix chassis with independent suspension all the way around a transaxle a wonderful 8 cylinder engine that has one many millimeters it has two overhead cams two superchargers two carburetors and it's the ultimate in engineering in the pre-war car I think it is the car that Alfa Romeo points to as the ultimate description of the Alfa Romeo mystique Jim what is your favorite thing about and this particular period we're talking about time the early 1930s mid nineteen thirties well you know that was before the war and a lot of cars were destroyed during the war some were hidden away somewhere buried in the 30s it was a period where style was very important [Music] when you obtain this car and then decided because it needed to be treated to a refreshment shall we say in your style that's quite a stressful and and it's something that requires a great deal of knowledge knowledge and commitment and once you decide it's got to be done everything needs to be done and there were a couple of restorations here from the eighties where they use different levels of techniques etc that we needed to do so we did everything in the car from top to bottom every detail and I think that shows today I think these gorgeous cars made a fantastic statement and they were new and we're very lucky that some of them still do perhaps even most of them still make a great statement today about how times were and many of the collectors who've been before me have said it's fun to bring something back to life which we've done with this car we've actually brought it back to life - fascinating cars and I'll reiterate both candidates for best of show in the minds of many people here at Pebble Beach now currently on stage second place car up next is the winner in the f2 class motor cars of the ROG 1931 Cadillac for five to a Pininfarina boattail roadster and this is one of 20 Sassy's that were specifically built for export in 1931 v16 engine wonderful ordered by the 30 tier of maharaja of orchha through General Motors in Bombay was one of the first cars to be bodied by Bautista Pininfarina of course who founded car at Surya Pininfarina so very very historic bodywork on that car this is the 3rd place in class G Duesenberg this in 1929 Duesenberg J Durham sport Phaeton and the model J had debuted at the New York Motor Show on December 1 1928 it was one of the most expensive cars ever launched an American of fact on that day they shut the New York Stock Exchange so the car could be revealed presumably because all the brokers wouldn't be paying attention and be looking at what they were going to be buying of course the irony the car was launched just before the great crash but a spectacular car and the Duesenberg one of the absolute icons of American automotive traditional owner of the car was a member of the famous Vanderbilt family second in class g4 Duesenbergs in 1935 JN bowman and schwartz convertible coupe a great story behind this car it originally had Rolston bodywork on it but it was given to Clark Gable by Carole Lombard a glamour couple in the Hollywood deer in the 1930s and he had it restyled by bowman and schwartz to his own design in gable sketches sketched out what he wanted in the car you can see the single bar bumpers lower windshield the fender skirts and the two covered spare tires at the rear there that's what gable wanted on his car and of course tragically Carole Lombard was killed in an aircraft crash in 1942 and Clark Gable reportedly never wanted to see that car again but that is not the winner in the class for Duesenberg this car is a 1929 Duesenberg J Murphy town limousine and this was ordered by a captain George Whittell who was born in San Francisco in 1881 he knew his heir to one of the the city's wealthiest family in fact his father was the founder of PG&E and upon his father's death in 1922 he received an inheritance of 29 million dollars which back then was an extraordinary amount of money he put it all in the stock market and he pulled it all out weeks before the great crash he made he had 50 million dollars and he's famous for among other things purchasing 27 miles of Lake Tahoe shorefront and building the Thunderbird Lodge as his summer residence which you can visit today as a tourist attraction all sorts of marks on the culture fascinating story moving down to class j14 european classic early first car on stage will be the third place machine in class a 1933 delage d8s three stone and web coupe a and of course we're in the happy hunting ground now for Pebble Beach best of show contenders this car is interesting because it has an English body on it most of the lodges of course French built cars had bodies by French coach builders this one free stone and web in London and again you can see by just looking at the car the demeanor of the car the gesture of the car it has a very English feel to it which actually makes it quite a unique Delage I can tell the fans along the ramp are excited about it a number of them have come to their feet to have a close look at this car the lodge was a race car company originally founded in 1905 by Louis Delage and it was acquired by Delahaye another great mark that's well represented here at Pebble Beach in 1935 and unfortunately ceased operation in 1953 very sought-after cars very powerful high-technology well the great things about that body with its quite tall roofline is it was designed so gentlemen could sit in it wearing his top hat very important it's very important of course you must have room for your top hat and as one of two surviving delage d8s rolls away the await the second place car in class and that would be in 1932 Maybach ds8 Zeppelin Spohn Cabriolet draws a round of applause from people near the stage this is a bit of a surprise because this is owned by the Nethercutt collection and was widely regarded as being a real contender for best of show but of course as it's finished second it's not eligible and Herman spawn was a German coach builder founded in 1920 in ravensberg in Germany and that was around about the same time that dr. Karl Maybach had started building cars doctor Maybach was a technical director at Daimler in the early part of the company's history and started building his own cars in about 1919 although he continued to build v12 Zeppelin engines the Graf Zeppelin had Maybach engines on it and built engines for railway carriages as well Maybachs typically grand big powerful cars and very very German a very solid muscular looking car and now here comes our winner in class j1 for European classic early 1928 Minerva type AF Hobart and Daren transformable town car and this is this is the upset that lovely car the Minerva and the AF of course Hobart and Daren coachbuilders although the car was coach built in Paris of course Daren came back American coach builder came back and built cars for American customers here in America Minerva was established in in 1897 and car production began in 1904 and since from 1908 they used the night sleeve valve engine which made them very smooth and in fact they thought seriously that they would compete with Rolls Royce in hispano-suiza in fact the list of customers included film stars and Maharaja's as well as the royal families of Belgium Sweden and Norway and it rolls off with the class win this is j2 european classic mid and the third place car 1935 DeLarge d8 with bodywork by ownership on another double winner miss Delage picking up the French Cup awarded to the most significant car of French origin and France is big this year for the first time French Citroen brand as its own class here at Pebble Beach this car was delivered to its first owner a doctor in Barre in Algeria and in 1948 he commissioned another coachbuilder Club Oh Robert clever to design more modern coach work for his car so you can see by the look of this car you know the rounded around it grille at the front rather than a flat chromium bright grille it's been slightly updated from its original look and here comes the second-place car in class a 1937 Bugatti type 57s vanden plas fort stirrer what's interesting too is again the body on this car vanden plas body so an english body the type 57 mark you john Bugattis emergence as its leader and creative director following on from his father at or a and the 57 s the s stood for sir base or lowered and it was virtually a grand prix car in touring car guys 3.2 liter straight-8 engine with dry sump lubrication straightened from Grand Prix cars of the era high-compression pistons and a reinforced clutch but the the real difference between this car and the other type the regular type 57s and you could see it as I came on the ramp is how low it writes to the road absolutely and strikingly low and here is the class winner for European classic mid year 1936 mercedes-benz 540 K Cabriolet a 540 K was 5.4 liter straight-8 engine with a supercharger followed on from the 500 K very big powerful German cars and this one the Cabriolet a was built in Mercedes own Sindelfingen coach works the Sindelfingen factory is still there still builds mercedes-benz cars I was fortunate enough earlier this week to drive the car that preceded this the 500 K you know roadster body and I've got to tell you it was the most amazing experience that car is on the lawn here at at Pebble Beach fifteen million dollar car and I can tell you we look at these cars driving up on the ramps they're not that easy to drive no synchro mission the gearbox is you've got to be careful with the clutch and and they ebrake to get it up on the ramp smoothly so why do you might not think it's much getting the car up onto the ramp it actually requires a bit more work dick leave the older cars this is the 1938 Bugatti Type 57 C Latonia a Marshall three-position Cabriolet striking color scheme on that car Green / green detect the Parisian coachbuilding company Latonia mahjong was founded in 1905 by two coach builders and although most of their work appeared on des lodges they did do other cars most notably this Bugatti here up next second-place car a 1939 Lagonda v12 Lamont rapid drop head coupe a and in 1935 Allan pgood who became the new owner of lagonda recruited a certain wo Bentley you may have heard of him and wo and his team designed an entirely new model the Lokhande v12 which was built between 1937 and 1940 and is considered one of the finest v12 engine cars of the pre-war era and it it featured some quite modern touches independent torsion bar front suspension modern hydraulic drum brakes 17 of the sportier repeats were built on the shorter 124 inch wheelbase and fitted with one of eight Lamont's specification engines which had four rather than two carburetors so not only did it look good it went quickly breathes a lot easier and the car performs better car all the way from Hong Kong by the way collector Sir Michael Kaduri also a double winner of the elegance in motion trophy now here's the 1939 Lagonda v12 rapid James Young Drophead coupe a the winner in European classical eight and another log on the v12 repeat and a fabulous engine and and demeanor of the car and this car was remained in England until 1957 when with only 10,000 miles up it was exported to Australia and so the car was used sparingly until 2015 and then sympathetically refurbished in England and still has less than 32,000 miles on the clock staggering Allen tribe Mosman Park Australia moving on now to class j4 Italian classics in 1932 lunch de l'homme de VOT torpedo is third in class there are seven cars in this class in fact there was so many great Italian cars this year the organizers felt they needed rather than put them in with the the European early mid and late gave them their own class and this is a this is a terrific Lancia die lambda vincenzo Lancia one of the world's great automotive engineers really visionary guy the Lancia lambda that he also produced was the world's first monocoque construction car he also produced the first production car with a narrow V v4 engine a very innovative engineer and that died lamda was his attempt to get into the luxury market really move lunch a brand upscale of course lunch is still exists today it's part of FCA it's really a brand that only appears in Italy these days but it is still around it's still part of the automotive fabric automotive landscape believed to be the only surviving example of the de lambda model from that year second in class for Italian classics this 1928 Alfa Romeo 6e 1500 s WC + RC naturally open sports car fantastic car this and Alfre mayor was at the cutting edge of automotive performance engineering in the 1920s and 30s and this car actually had Grand Prix racing technology in a row carbon or the first Italian sports cars to do that it was called the Alfa Romeo normally when it was first advertised it was renamed the 6c 1500 when it aroused great interest it was fitted with alphas 1.5 litre straight-six engine and was which was based on the straight aged engine used in the p2 Grand Prix car there were three versions you could have the single overhead camshaft normally this car or the twin overhead camshaft and sportin or the supercharged super sport car was originally raced in the Sheldon Lee Walsh Hill Climb in 1929 I believe that is the oldest surviving motorsports competition in the world Shelley Walsh you are correct earlier this year and now our class winner and yet another double winner picking up the Charles a Shane trophy for the car with the most advanced engineering of its era this is a 1937 Alfa Romeo 8c 2900 be touring berlinetta and this is a real contender for best of show his car absolutely fabulous staggering technology under the hood this was a cutting-edge almost a supercar of the pre-war era in terms of its performance and its technology but on top of that it had this beautiful bodywork Superleggera coach work around an ultra long hood cabin set right back on the wheelbase a very streamlined aerodynamic modern looking car it was first restored during the 1990s and won the most elegant closed car here at Pebble a few years later his current owner has restored it back to 1938 Berlin Motor Show specification and this is the first time the finished car has been seen anywhere in the world if it picks up first in class making it eligible for a best of show that's quite a record having picked up another special award I think this car is a is a real contender it's it's very Pebble Beach car and just look at how elegant it looks when it moves a truly beautiful thing the colour is actually dark blue it looks black but it's dark blue very dark blue well we're about halfway through our various glass high scorers half of the field for our best of show contenders and some of the specific awards have been picked up as well I have to agree with what you said earlier Angus that this really is one of the better years for the Pebble Beach conkers and hats off to the selection committee who worked such long hours to go through all of the hundreds of entries to pick the 200 plus cars that appear on the show field behind us it constantly amazes me that they managed to find cars of these this quality the cars that have the technical features all the the unique coach work all the cars were simply a fabulous story to tell you there's a finite number of these things yet somehow new cars keep coming out of the woodwork every year and the very very best of them come here because this is the Concorde that they all want to win it's a very competitive spirit among those serious restorers and collectors finishing in third place is a 1929 rolls-royce phantom one Brewster York roadster from John and Heather Mozart of palo alto california in order to keep the show moving you send the class when you have it sometimes that take us out of our takes us out of our predetermined order but that's just fine we're going to see all the cars and that's what we came here for in second place a 1928 rolls-royce phantom one Barker dual Cal Phaeton from Irving Jensen the third in dakota dunes south dakota interesting history to this car a it was known as the Duchess and it was designed for continental touring by its first owner Sir John Harmsworth who owned the London Daily Mail newspaper in whose descendants still do Sir John Harmsworth also founded Perry a sparkling water company and this car was ordered as an exact replica of the Phantom one owned by his brother Lord Rothermere and that car his brother's car later appeared in the film super girl starring Faye Dunaway something wonderful about a Rolls Royce they just have a gravitas to them and elegance to them and their very imposing car mean the Spirit of Ecstasy on that grille standing proud there the massive Parthenon grille absolutely recognizable worldwide as a Rolls Royce crew inspired by the proportions of an ancient Greek temple on a 1938 rolls-royce phantom 3 James young Drophead coupe a all the way from China the winner in class H for rolls-royce pre-war and the Phantom free had a 7.3 litre v12 engine and what's interesting about this car has a new front suspension design that was borrowed from General Motors so you know American automotive engineering technology was right at the top of its game in the 1930s and in fact so impressive the Rolls Royce went to General Motors to get a front suspension designed for its premium luxury car of course Rolls Royce is a company that's been in the luxury car business since 1904 and only last year launched its eighth generation phantom a car I've driven and is absolutely amazing to drive smooth is quite as car I have ever driven the 2018 Pebble Beach conquered elegance live stream is brought to you by Hagerty for people who love cars by Jaguar the art of performance back at Pebble Beach Golf Links the 68 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance wait our next class rolling up it looks like Class L 1 pre-war preservation because you can tell these cars aren't all that shiny but the preservation class is one of my personal favorites and a real crowd-pleaser this particular car our Stephens duress c6 from 1913 is totally unrestored it was cared for by its first owner until 1946 and its next owner only put routine maintenance on the car so it's despite its incredible state of preservation it's actually used quite regularly and driven around Vermont it's amazing to see a car that hasn't been restored it has just been used like its designers intended and it's a hundred and five years old 105 I hope I mean that good shape went on a hundred and five we expect preservation class cars to be perhaps from the 40s and 50s 1913 and still essentially the way it was born and it's used you know I love that I love people that used cars I'm not one for sitting there looking at them I'd like to get in and drive them no trailer Queens that's the third place car the second place car is up there now in 1910 regal model an underslung Fisher roadster well you talked about the last car being unrestored since 1913 this one goes back to 1910 absolutely amazing cars in original working condition the regal car company was founded in Detroit in 1907 to build medium-sized and medium priced cars and this regal underslung was delivered to its first owner in Hartford Connecticut where it stayed until the 1970s the amazing car it's many details remain untouched including its body panels it has its original leather straps the tufted our whole story is it is original and all the correct instruments and lamps they're the sorts of things that disappear and restore is hunt high and low to try and find these parts to give the cart making sure their car is original but this car they've never left it's been there since day one on rental car meaning the body is Punk essentially below the frame rails rather than placed on top of them and thus the axles in the springs underneath as well the springs like they reverse any engineer will tell you you want to get the weight down low for better handling and balance here's the winner in the Class L one pre-war preservation also a double winner picking up the mercedes-benz star of Excellence Award presented to the most significant mercedes-benz present a 1929 Mercedes Benz 710 SS Barker tourer race car and a bold prediction I'm not sure that it will happen but if there is ever a preservation car with a chance of winning best of show it's this car this car has an incredible history the SS was a Super Sport it had 200 horsepower with a supercharger engaged but this particular car was built for Rudolf Caracciola one of the greatest racing drivers of all time and he drove it in the 1929 all stertorous trophy and then he went not only winning that race he then drove it in the 1930 I respond pre the 1931 German Grand Prix and the 1931 Mille Miglia and this car is unrestored it was owned by the Earl Howe who raced it in the United Kingdom and kept it in his garage for many many years it's an extraordinary piece of automotive history this mercedes-benz is a car that I had in my garage about 40 years ago I was dying to buy it I thought I'd lock it up so the owner couldn't sell it to anybody else knocked on my door one day and said Alan give us the car had to give it back it's a phenomenal car I mean it's one of the most successful pre-war racing cars of all time with Rudolf Caracciola in there won the nineteen twenty thirty one tt and the 1931 mill Amelia that was the first time a non Italian car ever won the Mille Miglia and only Mercedes Benz won it twice 1955 we Stirling Moss and 1931 with Rudolf Caracciola this is a seriously important car absolutely delicious all right thanks very much Alan great story and now we're hearing our third place car in Class L 2 for post-war preservation was unable to start and that means it will not appear on stage to receive its award so we will move on to the second place car in class a 1954 Studebaker commander Starliner coupe no I think I think that you know I think he might have got the Oscar started like it is it's a very small Studebaker right now you're absolutely right I'm glad that the owner Roger Hoffman was able to get that car because it's another double winner picking up the fever post-war trophy for the best preserved post-war car as determined by a special judging committee guided by the organization's regulations I'm so glad he got it started I mean mention coming to Pebble Beach placing in your class and then not getting a trophy because your car couldn't make it up onto the ramps on the high breaking but this car still has its original oxblood leather interior its original Nardi steering wheel with a hand painted oscar badge as well as the cars original three-piece hitted swiss luggage and of course oscars one of the featured marks here at Pebble Beach this year and we're going to see a lot more Oscar racing cars later on it today smartly off the ramp through the crowd here's the second-place car in post-war preservation the 1954 Studebaker commander Starliner coupe a that I mentioned earlier a fabulous piece of design a Raymond Loewy classic this car I mean back in the era studi Baker's prior to this kind of looked a bit dumpy and frumpy this just looks amazing low slung almost European it's got a relatively old-fashioned v8 under the hood but that didn't matter at the time what's interesting about this car the owner William Babbage of East Pittsburg purchased it and he kept it for 60 years and in fact he was so fastidious about the car that only his wife then his niece Linda were allowed in the car and I could not wear any clothing with buttons or zippers for fear of scratching the paint so he put just six thousand six hundred and eighty-three miles on the car between 1954 and 1959 and only ever drove it during the summer and in 1960 stopped driving the car all together but he would start at once a month and drive it once a year to have it inspected so it really is a time warp in his since 1963 this car is only done eight miles although I did see it on the tour d'Elegance some might have done a few more than that yeah but an absolute time warp car fantastic well it comes in second in class its current owner by the way Wayne Carini well-known television car finder and restorer now it's time for the winner in class look at this beautiful 1970 Ferrari 246 GT Dino scaglietti two-door coupe a it's one of the few cars I've actually also driven on on the lawn but not not this particular car I've driven a 246 Dino Dino of course was meant to be the baby Ferrari and named Arthur Enzo's son Dino Ferrari sadly who sadly died young beautiful little car if you could imagine a Mazda Miata done by Ferrari this is the sort of car it is it's a little v6 engine you drove it with your fingers and toes such delicacy and immediacy through the steering and the chassis and and of course it looks beautiful it's it's almost the perfect mid-engine mid sixties sports car fabulous cars easy to pick up because the badging does not say Ferrari with the prancing horse it says Dino let's hear once again from Ellen de Cadenet these Ferrari scaglietti specials are absolutely delightful cars this grey one coming across now for instance it's built on a short wheelbase Ferrari that we're more used to seeing with a berlinetta body kind of car that Stirling Moss raced at Goodwood and won the 1960 TT and then yet another one and came back and won the 1961 TT but when you see a scale Yeti bodied car like that I'm told there were about something like 36 of them in total made I don't know how many have survived but this one is a total beauty and I'm so pleased to see it here at Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance that's the kind of car that has every right and deserves to be here it is a 1958 Ferrari 250 GT long wheelbase Scaglietti Spyder California and I might be the heretic here but I have a thing about Ferraris that are not red I love them I love non red Ferraris and the color on this car is fantastic a lovely soft grey one of 50 series 1 cars built this xi Spyder California built in 1958 and you're right it is a beautiful car in that color second place in Ferrari grand touring class the 1962 Ferrari 250 GT short wheelbase Scaglietti Spyder California yeah the Spyder California was introduced in 1960 built on an 18 shorter competitions chassis from the 250 GT short wheelbase race car you really have to be across your wheel bases and your definitions with these Ferraris the v12 engine was upgraded to the semi competition t / 1 6 8 specification and to increase cope with the increase in power it was fitted with Dunlop disc brakes this particular car was driven for a short time by Bob Hope while he was touring in Europe with the USA that is provenance and the winner in class for Ferrari Grand Touring machines this 1957 Ferrari 250 GT Pininfarina Cabriolet series 1 in this particular car was once thought to being ordered by the Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton for her fifth husband poor Fiero Rubirosa except one problem with the story is that when he took delivery of the car they'd already been divorced but it is generally agreed he did own the car how he got to obtain it is is a mystery at this point he was the first owner of the car and this car is one of 39 series one cabriolets Ferrari 250gt testa Rossa these this is one of the all-time great racing cars that Ferrari produced for long distance events Sebring 12 hours l'amour 24 hours I had one of these a long long time ago you could buy them for nothing in the 1960s literally nothing drive around the street going do some vintage racing with it and then you had to try and sell it before it started smoking too badly because you couldn't afford to actually get it repaired and now on stage of 53 Ferrari 250 mm Pininfarina coupe a the third place car in class this car was built primarily to compete in long-distance races such as the Mille Miglia in a Carrera Panamericana as well as 24-hour L'Amour and at it has a 2.9 liter 240 horsepower v12 engine and this particular car was raced in the 1953 Mille Miglia 1958 ferrari 250 testa Rossa scaglietti Spyder is now on stage second place of course the testa testa Rossa gets its name from the fact that the cylinder heads on the engine were painted red and Italian such a wonderful language that something as mundane as red head could sound so racy and spectacular Testarossa this particular this particular car was shipped to John von Neumann in California famous Ferrari dealer in California and the car was raced in Arizona in California in the 19 1960 season fantastic car the test for us a great history with them and certainly one of the great Ferraris sports cars a really dramatic looking body the way the defenders are cut away behind the front wheels and the exhaust pipes come out and the four pipes at the rear of the car it's almost the schoolboy definition of a 1950's racing Ferrari sports car certainly one of the best-known Ferrari silhouettes reported by Ferraris man on the west coast here in California John von Neumann but here comes the winning car in class this is a 1955 Ferrari 500 mile schedule Yeti Spyder what's interesting about the Mondial 500 Mondeo is that has a 4 cylinder engine everyone thinks in Ferraris with with the v12 and envy ice this is a four-cylinder and and it's running and it's running goodness in this at its first race than twelve hours of Casablanca which sounds just so romantic yes a factory drivers Alberto Ascari Angie villoresi finished in class and went on to help win Ferraris second sportscar World Championship in 1954 this car was often raced in Scandinavia spent a long time racing in Scandinavia on spiked tires of course you know on the frozen lakes must have been quite interesting to drive I wonder how it survived this car is actually competed in 17 Mille Miglia retrospectives and i was fortunate enough to have driven him one of those the most amazing event you drive classic period sports cars from the 1920s through the 1950s following the route of the Mille Miglia da thousand mile road race from Brescia down to Rome and back through the heart of Italy and I drove in a 1954 Alf Romero Sportiva but it was amazing to see cars like this yep on the road sometimes they'd go past your exhaust pipes layering spitting fire and you dream you were back in the middie media in the good old days I hope you love your job as much as I do once again here's Alan in 1937 Maserati brothers had to sell them as arathi company weren't allowed to make another car for ten years 1947 they founded the oscar company that's the office for special production automobile is oscar a special construction i should say this is a beautiful little car so 1954 oscar 2000's instead of having a four-cylinder engine it's got a 6-cylinder engine but this is the only one they made with a two and a half litre engine it's got a transaxle adderdean suspension Stirling Moss record these were amongst the very best handling cars that he ever ever won we've got one right here delicious thing to see thanks Alan it'll be on stage in a moment here is our third place car in class n1 for osku pre-1950 552 osku empty for prototype through a spider and as Alan said Oscar was founded by the Maserati brothers so that he'd get back into car racing and Oscars are characterized that was small cars four-cylinder cars mostly but they had a reputation for great handling and being extremely competitive in small sports car racing and in fact that car raced three times in the road races that were a part of the original Pebble Beach celebration in 1954 Pebble Beach company second place car glass the one Allen was just referring to the 1954 Oscar 2000's through a spider and this is one of the few Oscars with a six-cylinder engine albeit a two liter 6-cylinder engine which was built from or built for Oscars formula to race cars so they detuned it slightly and put it into a sports car body this car has raced extensively in Italy including the euro de Cecilia and the Mille Miglia again after that it was bought to the USA and it was raced by Jim Hall a very famous name in American Racing absolutes the man who went on to build the chaparral race cars that's right and this car is another double winner picking up the Phil Hill Cup named for a great participant of both the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance and the Pebble Beach Road races warded to a significant race car and a deserving winner [Music] [Music] that's a sweet little car that one it just looks looks bigger than it really is now here comes the class winner for pre 1955 Oscars a 49 pasca empty for Celera and Celera torpedo in Italian and it has a 1092 CC overhead camshaft for engine let it look just how tiny this car is of course back in those days in the in the late 1940s early 1950s no such thing as roll cages and seat belts in fact the drivers of the day used to say it was better to be thrown right car and you look how just look how small that car is it's tiny and it comes to the Pebble Beach conquered a leg ants from Israel one of 17 different countries with representatives here at the 68th edition congratulations to the class winner for pre 1955 Oscars and now class n2 is for Oscars from 1955 to 1960 and third place is a 1956 MT 4 TN more le smiter one of the reasons they've broken the oscars up between pre 1955 and 1955 to 1960 is that pre 1955 there weren't many coachbuilders near Bologna which is where the Maserati brothers had their factory more le was in nearby Ferrara and rebodied a car in 1953 and from about 1955 on Oscar bodies were about 90% of Marelli's business and this car was driven by Carroll Shelby and gentlemen Jim Kimberly who rode it drove it in the 19th 5756 Road America race and the car finished in first place and in 1956 Nassar Speedway was hidden by a departed friend of ours the wonderful Denis mcCluggage second place car in class is a 1960 Oscar 750 s4r le sports racer and the 750 number actually is the capacity of the engine tiny little car 750 CC racing was actually very popular in the 1950s and 60s Stirling Moss cut his teeth racing 750 CC powered cars and while that might not sound too impressive but the cars as you can see very very light very small and then very fast back Stirling Moss won the Sebring 12 hours in an Oscar and that particular car there raised three times at Sebring one of the toughest endurance races on the planet first in class into four Oscars from 1955 to 1960 the 1955 MT for 1,500 more release spider this car had a more rare streamline marelli body that was built for a American racer Paul Pappalardo and all the 78 MT Forsch a C's built marelli had bodies on about 25 of them this car was shown at Pebble Beach in 1996 and has since been restored for its return visit and a good job obviously good enough to win best in class which puts it in contention for best of show and now back to the staging area and Allen 1957 BMW 507 got v8 2-liter engine in it this cars had a full restoration it's immaculate they only built 252 of these cars when they were new how many survived today I've no idea that this one is an absolute beauty the only other one of the I ever drove in was a car that John Surtees the ex Formula One Grand Prix driver who was also a motorcycle Grand Prix winner he was given one by BMW and he never sold it he died earlier this year maybe his car become available I don't know but this is a total beauty and now on the grid we've got the 1950 Talbot logo t26 Grand Sport Pennock coupe a third in class oh one post-war touring and talbo logo built between 1948 1953 the t26 had a six-cylinder engine I was the last of Talbot's great coach build cars Anthony Anthony Largo of course wealthy businessman wanted to get into Grand Prix racing and also build expensive sports cars for the road so the BMW 507 this is second in oh one post-war touring one of the great sports cars it was inspired by BMWs New York importer max Hoffman and the mechanicals come from the BMW 502 and 503 sedans and Koopas it uses 3.2 liter v8 engine little piece of trivia here there is a connection between this car and the Datsun 240z there in fact designed by the same person I'll break Diwan Gertz who was a protege of raymond loewy unfortunately for BMW they lost money on every 507 they built so after just building 252 production was abandoned in late 1959 [Music] and to the winning car in the class oh one for post-war touring on 1948 Talbot Lago t26 grants Portugal a fastback coupe a yes another t26 and you might notice that detail above the center headlight this car was owned by its original owner mr. feyo Lee was known as the zipa King and for this reason there's a string of horizontal chrome strips above the center headlight the only car in the world you'll ever see with a zipper on the hood fantastic car really distinctive car we followed this car or I followed this car on the tour d'Elegance and I can tell you the owner wasn't hanging around it might be a class winner here at Pebble Beach but it was certainly driven with some Verve and vigor on the road during the tour d'Elegance but to continue with the class Oh - for post-war grand touring third in class this 1956 Cadillac Hansen Eisenhart presidential parade car IV puzzled by the definition of a grand tourer here because we mostly think of GT s as being sporty cars elegant fast coachwork this thing it's massive it's a a presidential parade car that was used by President Eisenhower Kennedy and Johnson of course the car has an extended wheelbase it has lots of room it has and you'll see the running boards on the sides and at the rear to areas where of course the Secret Service agents and the handles on on the trunk as you see the car go past us where the Secret Service agents used to hang on and keep their eyes watchful eyes on the crowd it's a massive car he compared Lee get it around the corner as he drives off the ramp certainly with all the armor plating powerful radio transmitter and steel wheel protection it is quite alone and it is third in the class for post-war grand touring finishing second a 1957 Bentley s1 Continental Park Ward Drophead coupe a the Bentley s1 Continental is one of the most beautiful of the big Bentley two-door cars and HJ Mulliner Hooper and James young all built open and closed bodies but this drop head is one of just 31 built by Park Ward lovely two-tone color scheme that these cars wear so well and it was delivered in 1956 to Frederick Brewster of Connecticut and he was connected to the famous Brewster coach building firm the coach builder who built the body for the car that won last year and here is our first-place car in post-war grant touring a 1949 delahaye 135 M part out Malmaison Cabriolet yeah the Delahaye 135 known as the coupe de coupe de zelfs after the success in the alpine rally was first shown at the Paris show in 1935 and production continued until 1954 this one is the work of Marcel portal one of France's best-known coach builders and the body design was named the Malmaison after the Chateau de Malmaison in rural Malmaison near Paris it's got a type 103 s engine with triple Solex carburetors and there are fewer than six examples of this Cabriolet stall were made only three are known to exist today that's your winner in post-war Grand Touring and once again we have Alan everybody knows about Ford's 1-2-3 in the 1966 L'Amour race this is the fourth team car it was being driven by Dan Gurney he's well in the lead in the 18th hour he's going to win it likely and the darn head gasket blue however they've resurrected the car completely and in great tribute to that wonderful wonderful man and Dan Gurney here it is a Pebble Beach I think Dan Gurney probably one of the world one of the most popular racing drivers of all time absolutely totally delightful man that's his car Thank You Ellen indeed we lost and gurney but his presence is very much felt both here at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance among the team's drivers and cars over in WeatherTech Raceway for the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion and all over just leaving the ramp now is 1303 post worse sports the 1952 Porsche type 540 and this was Porsches first production race car they created at the behest of um symporter max Hoffman there's that name again associated with the BMW 507 second place in post-war sports class a 1955 maserati a6 GCS through a spider so the first maserati six-cylinder engine car the a6 went from 1500 CC to 2 liters and was given the name a 6 g but in 1953 the engine was updated and tuned b Giacchino colombo who worked on Ferrari engines and that resulted in the more powerful 170 horsepower a6 GCS where the cs stood for course a sport racing sport just 52 of the AG a6 GCS 53 were built in 48 were open spiders like this car which was body by carrots area fewer but cars also a double winner picking up the Briggs Cunningham Trophy awarded to the most exciting open car on and named of course for the great American sportsman racer and car builder Briggs Cunningham and here is our winner in the class for post-war sports the car Allen was referring to the ex Dan Gurney 1966 Ford gt40 mark to be COO and of course that car although it didn't it didn't win in but took part in the famous clash with Ferrari and for dad LeMond in 1966 and it was widely regarded as Henry Ford twos revenge for Enzo Ferrari turning down a deal in 1963 for Ford Motor Company to buy Ferrari parently Enzo got cold feet at the very last minute and Henry decided to go racing and beat Enzo where and hurt most at LeMond and the gt40 absolutely iconic racing car there is course now a new Ford GT on the road sports car that also has raced at LeMond I've driven the new gt40 is the nearest thing to a race car you can drive on the road and of course there is a movie being made about the Ford Ferrari battles at Lomond here's a hint look for the character of Dan Gurney as portrayed by his son Alex gurney the movie is in production now we're going to take a quick commercial break and we'll be back with more from the 68 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance isn't it time you connected to something greater sometimes the best way to connect used to disconnect this moment of escape was brought to you by Hagerty for people who love cars [Music] [Music] you we are back at the Pebble Beach Golf Links and the 68 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance I'm Bob Varsha with Angus Mackenzie head low Jonny leerin and Allen de Cadenet we are on to class P another new class this year for Eisenhower era dream convertibles and how about this a 1953 Oldsmobile fiesta convertible and that's a third place car in the class here's a second place car a 1953 packard caribbean convertible these Eisenhower IRRI dream convertibles it really was a Renaissance of the Gilded Age of American automobiles each one of these cars was a special build car built by the factory that cost considerably more than regular versions so 50 Caribbeans were built in 1953 and each one sold for five thousand two hundred and ten dollars which was a premium of nearly $2,000 over our regular standard packard convertible many of the styling cues for the Caribbean came from earlier 1950s packard show cars such as the Packard Pan American and in fact the the way they built this car it was took a standard packard convertible and was sent off to the specialty coach works of Mitchell Bentley of Ionia Michigan for all the various modifications special wheel cutouts modified chrome side trim and chrome wired wheels as well as a steel covered continental style sports spare wheel kit for the back of the car well the Eisenhower all the optimism in America about all that could be done the opulence live for today buy the biggest shiniest car you could find and here comes the paradigm of that concept the winner in Class B for Eisenhower era dream convertibles a 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz convertible and I think this was the car in which Detroit reached peak tailfin absolutely extraordinary piece of stamping metalwork and engineering design of course under the auspices of the legendary Harley Earl and these cars really really typifies the optimism of 1950s America and I'm reminded there was crisp angle the BMW designer who once told me he said you know when these cars were designed car designers believed that cars would one day fly and you've only got a look at the tail fins on this thing and then the openings in the bumper which are like the the intakes for a jet engine this car looks like something from the rocket Age that's absolutely amazing weighing a swell 5060 pounds and it had a price tag of seven thousand four hundred and one dollars which was nearly two thousand dollars more than a standard series 62 Cadillac and they sold about thirteen hundred and twenty Barretts versions which had everything air-conditioning bucket seats cruise control which is quite intuitive in 1959 the math it's about a dollar and a quarter pound I think cheap at half the price let's move on now to class Q for post-war custom Citroen another debut class here the first time Citroen has been so honored here that the world's greatest Concorde d'Elegance this is a 1967 Citroen DS 21 Cabriolet D you seen third place the Citroen DS is one of my favourite old-time automobiles when it appeared at the 1955 Paris show it's rocket ship shape its hydropneumatic suspension it was the most advanced production car compared with its competitors ever launched convertible versions were built at the factory and with ownership role and they were expensive it costs twice as much as a normal DS but such a striking car hydropneumatic suspension I've done a lot of miles in dear citrons over the years they're the most amazing car to ride the ride is like being in an armchair like no other car you'll ever drive you've seen one you will remember it that's the third place car in class in second place this 1965 Citroen DS Majesty chaperone limousine on Risha prong enjoyed a bit of a renaissance in the 1950s and 60s with Citroen he was a coach builder that started in 1919 he did a lot of pre-war cars noticeably notably the larges and as well some of you Gary's but with Citroen and doing these special bodied cars he really had a renaissance and this this is quite extraordinary this very formal roof line on the swoopy DS 21 it's quite an extraordinary looking car has a real presence to it and here comes the class winner in post-war customs Citra went on 1966 DS 21 chaperone lay limo obey and I love this car the the thinness of the pillars you know the problem today we roll over regulations you can never have pillars that thin the light airy glass house on this car it's almost like it doesn't have a roof at all but it does have this magnificent elegant formal roofline there were 27 of these two-door little amount coupe a built and shap Ron continued working on Citroen cars after the D s finished and into the subsequent CX range of citrons and SM range of citrons and some of those cars are here on on the lawn part of the eight cars in this special class one of the highlights I think of Pebble Beach this year I agree and now it's time for another special class for scarab race cars the creations of lance reventlow and the scarabs of course a unique American Racing car and lance reventlow was heir to the Woolworth fortune while we have a moment we talked earlier about the preservation class cars basically untouched from the day they were born well earlier we sat down with Bryan Pollock who is both a judge and an entrant here at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance to talk about his post-war preservation class 1967 Ferrari Dino to learn why it remains untouched from birth and his answer may surprise you my mom told me that the first word out of my mouth was cars and that's what started my enjoyment and quest for all types of different cars I was watching velocity and their program about Pebble Beach done through Motor Trend and I want to quote from Jay Leno he said on the program this is from the 2017 published conquer I'd like to find the Ferrari owner with the first wife that would be interesting well I happen to be that maybe possibly the one and only Ferrari owner that has the first wife and she's been very understanding and she is a car person so she really really enjoys all these car events and at times she enjoys them more than I do the car that were taking to Pebble Beach this year is a 1970 Ferrari Dino and my wife and I we use it on our honeymoon we spent three months driving around in Europe so the only reason that the car is preserved is because I'm a big procrastinator my favorite expression is I haven't started to procrastinate over the years I've wanted to paint it red but I never got around to doing it and then at one point what I wanted to do is restore it but being a procrastinator again I never got around to it and then one day a friend of mine said you can't restore this car it's too original leave it the way it is and so that's how we ended up having a car that's going to be eligible for the preservation class and now that the car is preserved and I'm a little bit older I think that preservation is the coolest thing going because I have a bit of patina on me and the car has some patina so we kind of go together better than if it was old fresh and shiny and I was still patina so this year I'm a judge in the pre-war European class is called J class one of the things that differentiates Pebble Beach judging from a lot of the other concours is that authenticity is one of the primary things that were judging because once they have the Pebble Beach stamp of approval on it that's that's part of their pedigree and we don't want to screw things up and say something is something when it is not we've been going to Pebble Beach many many years this will be the 30th year that I've been a judge at Pebble Beach but this is the first time we're doing the Pebble Beach motoring classic and from what I understand we're getting to get a good use out of the car and showing everybody that you can enjoy your older cars so it should be a lot of fun [Music] now if you've been following the road to Pebble Beach to Monterey I should say on Motor Trend you already know about Jason wenig and the creative workshop in Dania Beach Florida who were preparing a car working against the clock to bring it here to the 68th Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance earlier Johnny Lieberman spoke with Jason wenig about the effort I'm standing here next to a yellow car that's called a Kissel this guy has been restoring it for a program I'm gonna have him tell you about this car hi Jason how you doing what is this standing next to a 1921 Kissel model 645 affectionately nicknamed Gold Bug which you could probably understand the reason why and you brought it out here as part of a program you're doing the road to Monterey tomorrow and obviously even filming this car for quite a while getting it built I got asked what it what's it been like tell me about like getting the car sorted and then driving it out here well going through the process of restoring a car is exhaustive every nut and bolt of this entire vehicle it's been taken apart and put back together again knowing that was coming to Pebble Beach you have to pay attention to the details here and we obsess over those details so every single screw nut and bolt color finish and thing you see has about hours five hours plus very hour of work so what you're seeing is the culmination of a remarkable amount of work by a coordinated group of craftsmen to make it on the field today but like you I'm in the TV biz so you not only do you have to like work on the carbon you have a bunch of other guys standing around then telling you like perfect do it again what's that like well you know you try to do things once and there's nothing quite like when you try to put something like an engine and a chassis and have the producers walk up and say great now take it out and put it back in again so great but mmm gotta get the different angle yeah we live in the same well let me ask you though because I imagine none of this is easy but what was been the single most difficult or arduous or heartbreaking thing that happened getting this car ready well I could probably say taking it for a test drive ten days before the transport truck came me breaking the windshield and having the tv-show capture that on camera I heard about this you Brooke with your hand bad yeah so the car stalled we were having some tuning issues I leaned up to take a look inside to see if my engine was on fire or not when I leaned back I pulled the windshield back with me and I'm gonna assume you don't go to like Pep Boys and get a new windshield for this car right right so I think we all handle it pretty well but there was a lot of bleeps going on on that camera at that moment so we obviously got it done in time so well very cool thanks for talking to me and good luck man thank you so much my pleasure just vote for us now well now you know how it ended but if you haven't checked out at the long road to Monterey you can find it now in Motor Trend TV and you'll see it in a special premiere on the velocity Network September 11th at 8 p.m. Eastern Time now we move on to class t as the scarabs which were not a judged class have come and gone these are the Tucker's and on the ramp there is first in class 1948 Tucker 48 and this car is owned by George Lucas of course there's a Hollywood connection because the Francis Coppola also owns a Tucker 48 fascination with these unique American cars which of course spawned a movie that's right Coppola made the film Tucker the man and his dream truly interesting car a lycoming flat-six engine at the rear that center light swiveled so you would show around corners and of course those of you have seen the movie will know that there was quite a controversy about what happened to Preston Tucker all I could say is that there's a very very fine line between being Henry Ford and Preston Tucker a few bad decisions this is in the industry that chews up so much money so quickly and when things go wrong they go very wrong to film star as Jeff Bridges if you haven't seen it give it a try and now here's another special class of a competition nature celebrating the rear-engine revolution at the Indianapolis 500-mile race in the 1960s and 70s so they're gonna break with tradition here I think and push these cars up onto the ramp because these are fairly highly strung race cars they're also very very low to the ground this class Class V is one of two classes curated here at Pebble Beach this year by my very good friend Ken gross and he has a wonderful eye for cars the Tucker's we've just seen it's the greatest gathering of Tucker's I think that there has ever been and ever likely to be and these 1960s Indy cars some of the best and most memorable races from the famous 500 mile of the early 1960s here is the first in cars to be pushed up on stage this is the third place car in class 1966 All American racers Eagle special Dan Gurney's All American racers shops in Santa Ana California and Dan Gurney was a man of impeccable taste as showed in his race cars that were always beautiful race cars the the little point on the nose there the blue and white livery it was just perfect whether it was these Indy car or is his Grand Prix car which of course he competed in Formula One with and no mean feat to to attempt to be win a championship win a race in a car of your own design there's only one person of course has ever done that no jack problem Dan Gurney did it on the 1967 Formula One Grand Prix of Belgium at Spa now this car was driven by Dan Gurney the first of his engine Indianapolis cars I should say in 1966 he didn't get very far there was a start line crash he got caught up in it and his race was over but it raced on the car is now owned by renowned restorer Bruce Canepa from Scotts Valley here in Northern California had a long chat with Bruce he went through a meticulous set of steps to make sure that everything was just as it should be on this car and now here's another special class of a competition nature celebrating the rear-end revolution at the Indianapolis 500-mile race in the 1960s first in class goes to the 1965 Dean Van Lines Bronner special [Music] the 2018 Pebble Beach Concord elegants livestream is brought to you by Hagerty for people who loved cars by Jaguar the art of performance joining me now here on our commentary stage is Eric B's Eck host of JDM legends on motor trend and velocity networks and a key man behind one of the newest elements of the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance jei the Japanese automotive Invitational Eric tell me what that's all about so the Japanese automotive Invitational is something that Infiniti has had a part in producing and and what we're trying to do is show and display some of the you know the the great Motorsports heritage you know the great design you know some of the designs that came out of Japan you know finally getting on the stage or where these cars can be appreciated the way that we think they can there's some very incredible cars that were available over there and and you know a lot of these are still very accessible to you know some of your average guys so I think it's a it's a great way to really get into the marketplace without having to spend you know six figures on a budget so where is this all coming from I mean when people think of Japanese cars I don't know that they particularly think of luxury or performance until events like drifting came about and suddenly we saw these cars really capable of extraordinary things and certainly in road racing even involved an oval track racing around the world the Japanese are right there and have been for a long time so is this overdue this recognition it's long overdue you you know they like I said they've been in Japan and really didn't get into the outside Motorsports until you know a little later than most manufacturers so you know there's cars like we see today the r35 gt-r incredible car but you trace that back to 1969 is when that car started and 1969 that car had four valves per cylinder dual overhead cam triple carbureted motor you know revving to 8,000 rpms I mean how can you not like that you know so for me that's that's really what drew me into it right on uh this is the first year for the for the initiative the Jay AI what does the future hold do you see you know it's tough to say I mean the first car to really get serious recognition is the Toyota 2000gt which definitely deserves it but I think there is you know a lot of cars that came out of there very interesting he for you know the design elements or for just sheer technological advancements you know they've always been on the forefront of you know the highest technology available at the time and and I think you know that's something that I'm really excited to see come to light you know and have people finally see them for what they are I can't let you go without asking about your personal impressions of what you see here on the show field at Pebble you know this has been absolutely incredible for me you know I've been to car shows before but this is I mean they say the Superbowl of car shows but it's it's no joke I mean not even on the grass but just all of the cars driving around the event you know to see MacLaren's parallel park next to you know Enzo's I mean it's like everywhere I look I have a hard time really you know I feel bad for my wife because we're trying to have a conversation but there's so many distractions you know so that never happens well incredible event I appreciate you taking the time to come chat with us so enjoy the rest of the day yeah well thank you so much for having me and now let's join ed Lowe standing by at the concept lawn here at Pebble Beach Golf Links so I'm here at one of my favorite spots at the Concours d'Elegance weekend the concept lawn and with me is a stunning debut here the Audi PB 18 along with its designer Gail Bors in come in here and tell me all about your beautiful creation well what we wanted to do is create the car for the enthusiast driver of tomorrow so our goal was to give the driver the closest experience to the one of a race car driver as possible within ultimately when you biased because that's what you're trying to have as an experience so we leverage the drive-by warrior technology for example on the interior and created a driving cockpit that can slide over the passenger's seat and put the driver in the middle which is a purist position for a racecar driver it's fantastic as you can see it slide over so it goes from a 2 passenger vehicle to a single-seat racecar it's got the electric battery packs in the back it's all electric makes about 670 horsepower and apparently goes 0 to 60 in under two seconds it's fantastic there are plenty other concept cars here that we would go check out let's go see him so what I love about the concept lawn is that it's this mix of race cars and production cars and concepts we have vehicles like the Jaguar ipace trophy car the VW IDR this is one the Pikes Peak set the lap record up there also we have production cars like the 600 LT from McLaren this is their super sports car long tail edition and then beautiful concepts like the Genesis essentia this didn't debut here this debuted back at an international show but it's gorgeous out here on the lawn and then again there's production cars like the Levante Trofeo and of course you can't come here and not appreciate cars like the Lamborghini Aventador SV j63 only 63 of these are going to be made limited-edition also a debut here at Pebble Beach we pop over we can see cars like the the Wolf Finney er concept car this is sorry this is a production car it's from Dubai designed and made in Italy right alongside the Infiniti p10 this is a follow-up to their p9 prototype beautiful single post concept car right alongside the Polestar one another gorgeous you know near production vehicle what's really great though is the absolute diversity here concept cars everywhere you look but what is actually my favorite is that I believe this is the first time there is a pickup truck here at the concept car loan this is from VW the Atlas 10 Oak and actually I think it's right at home here the concept lawn back to you guys and now while we have a moment let's chat with Mikheil Haggerty CEO of Haggerty insurance a longtime supporter of classic cars everywhere and particularly of the Pebble Beach conker dalla gonns mcil you're not only a judge a long-term judge you are also an entrant here this year what kind of added pressure does that well I felt sort of like you know when you'd see the the image of the circus bear juggling and riding the unicycle at the same time that was my day today so you know judging it brings a lot of pressure of itself of its own because these are some of the finest automobiles in the world and the judging teams are brought in to be true experts I guess and we study hard try to be ready and then I have this added problem of jumping back and forth to have my own car being judged but it was there was a lot of fun today it was it was a real honor to be here as a participant for once tell me about your car yeah I was it's a 1931 cadillac cadillac 16 which was a 16 cylinder car and you know we all like to think that we know the cars in our hometown i live in a small town in northern michigan where we're headquartered and here was this little treasure trove of pre-war classic setting three miles from my house and there was a cadillac 16 sitting out there so i convinced the owner to let it move from his garage to my garage this is obviously a big weekend for Hagerty insurance let's talk about the big picture a lot of auctions going on the beam you know the market for collector cars being set here this weekend what do you see happening out there well there's six different auctions taking place I mean you have all these events out here in addition to the concore which is the you know granddaddy and the kind of cornerstone of the whole thing the Monterey historic race is everybody who's coming in here wondering how would the how the auctions do this year you know what does the market look like that there was a high-water mark set back in 2014 of huge volume of cars sold this was a big year it did very very well the auctions were really hot at the at both at in interesting dimensions both at the high-end as you'd expect this is a real high-end place a big big gun sports racing cars Ferraris in particular tend to do well here but pre-war classics did well you know showing there's a new generation interested in pre-war classics modern supercars did well and strangely newer cars with really low miles so there were some fascinating trends taking place but a whole new generation and in fact new generations of collectors are here buying cars at auction showing them on the field having a good time so I love it it's great to see this may seem like kind of an off-the-wall question but what the heck given the political climate and the markets tariffs trade war all that sort of thing is that something that might affect the classic car business car restoration and so forth where materials and craftsmanship are so important to the final product certainly could you know I think there was a lot of interest and concern about potentially a for trade issue with Europe because there's you know in the automotive space the especially in this automotive space the the interest between kind of American or North American car interests and European interests are important both in new cars of course you know we love European cars but also in vintage cars and that was a real concern for a lot of the market it seems to have settled down a bit but you know in reality you know this is a this is the only car event this week in Monterrey is the only car event that takes place that's truly global I mean they're people from all over the world North America South America Asia Europe Africa and that's what it kind of shows the global interest in cars or what makes it interesting and as these generations grow you know not whether even though maybe there's a smaller percentage of people interested in cars in the same way we saw just even a couple of decades ago the generations are so large that there's there's great interest in them so you know I think what's important for all of us I mean what you guys are doing what we're thinking about is how do we make this fun friendly place for people to get into cars whether they're in the racing or restoring or showing who cares I don't care it's got to be a friendly place and you got to remove the barriers for people to be able to do it and like you said find parts get cars restored have fun with it I have spoken to at least two officials with organizations planning new Concorde d'Elegance how far can the market go how many cars are there out there I mean is there a limit at some point or can this hobby continue to grow as it has to this point well you know we saw the great you know the the Japanese car event that took place here that you know you were involved with you guys with which is awesome showed a whole new level of interest I think from an event standpoint it's a it's a little less about concours and it was a few years ago and obviously the cars in coffee world is sort of taken over the car planet and I think it's what's what's cool about cars and coffee is they're they're lightweight you know no one has to be the club secretary or print the newsletter to go to a cars and coffee just you bring to a parking lot somewhere what you have and you have some fun with it and you know my guess is you're probably gonna see something that you might want and then you might upgrade to that and then you'd you know 10 or 10 a.m. you go drive away it's it's pretty lightweight so what we're seeing is more ad hoc type events more ways for people to connect differently in an in a more casual way rather than in a formal way there's a place for conquerors because people are by nature competitive in the car world they want to show their best stuff and have it judged against something else and then otherwise it's just go out there and have a good time last question where can I get a motoring cap like that well you know I'm a Kangol guy and I don't have as much air as you do so I have to have this that's a requirement that's a good thing today Akhil Haggerty thank you very much for your support of the of the Concord elegance and continued success in 2018 thank you all the best we'll take a break and return with more from the 68 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance isn't it time you connected to something greater sometimes the best way to connect used to disconnect [Applause] this moment of escape was brought to you by Hagerty for people who love cars [Music] [Music] welcome back to the Pebble Beach Golf Links and the 68 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance here on motor trend I'm Bob Varsha along with Angus Mackenzie ed Lowe Johnny Lieberman and Hallett de Cadenet thanks for being with us on another beautiful day another collection of absolutely fabulous automotive treasures and there's more to come here at Pebble Beach we have met all of our class winners and now the judges will get their heads together and Angus to talk about what qualifies for Best in Show and I think this brings out the nuances of judging in this kin competition because everybody really has their own perception of what constitutes a Best in Show vehicle and all the Best in Show winners are you know incredible cars there are cars that have been restored meticulously or preserved wonderfully they're cars that are absolutely authentic they're period-correct so it's like picking one of your children really isn't it and but I think there is a certain type of car and we've seen this over the years that really does appeal at Pebble Beach a car that has a certain indefinable presence when it's up there on the ramp and I think we can hazard a guess at some of the cars that might do well from this really class crowd I can't emphasize how impressed I am with the quality of the cars overall this year there's been a fantastic array of really impressive vehicles I'm glad you mentioned hazarding a guess because that's exactly what I'd like our entire panel to do right now a prediction of best of show Alan let's start with you well I'm torn between two cars that there's a 1929 Mercedes Benz SS the 710 I had that kind my garage 40 years ago I couldn't afford the three or 4,000 pounds he wanted for it so I'd let it go but it'd look what that car did it won the the TT at one Manila Miglia Caracciola say no more however I also am an alpha man really and the to 900 B that is the car that I did a show on by I love that car and if the gentleman who owns it is as meticulous as believe and so I suppose out of those two I have to root for the elephant okay Angus have a picking one well I'm going to go with the Hartman body Cadillac to me that has everything that a Pebble Beach best of show winner should have it has the flamboyant body style of those enclosed fenders a v16 engine Cadillac it's it's a Gilded Age car it's extravagant it's 22 feet long two-door convertible and when it's up there on the ramp and I was out earlier this this morning out there on the lawn and this car had a crowd around it's a crowd pleaser it's like a magnet everyone draws rather I saw I think it has that that sort of stage presence that a Pebble Beach best of show winner needs well chosen my ballot was already in the Hat for that very same car which i think is probably unrepeatable absolutely fantastic ed Lowe how about you 29 710 SS Barkat or you know it has everything you want in a car that's shown here as first of all it's gorgeous I love that it's a preservation class and I hope they can be the first of its of the kind to win Best in Show and it has that history you know would one in one the Mille Miglia you know the one of the old one of two foreigners non-italians to win the race that would my mind you know that has you know all the right pieces to win well yeah I mean if that Cadillac catches on fire I'm gonna go I mean there's a lot of great cars but I'm gonna go with that the 1929 Duesenberg J the Murphy limousine I had a white top black body it was just you know it's it's got the elegance part of Concord elegance you know it's long formal just what you want to be seen out on the town like imagine you're leaving the dealership in New York in 1931 everybody's selling apples and you're you know imperiously cruising down the road in that like it's it's the car if the Cadillac somehow doesn't make it well it sounds like the Cadillac is the early frontrunner as far as we're all concerned I think so as I said it has it ticks all the boxes for a Pebble Beach car and you know we've been coming here for a few years now we've seen the sort of cars that go up on the ramp and get the best of show accolade and it really does take the boxes well when the judging comes down to a tie if it does there is a potential tiebreaker and it's an event that began here at the Pebble Beach Concord elegance several years ago called the tour d'Elegance an opportunity for the owners of these cars on the show field behind us to get out on the road to show a much wider audience about these fabulous cars that may not be able to make it onto the property here at the Pebble Beach Golf Links and then there is that tiebreaker here's Alan to explain so you've worked hard you've passed your driving test and you're now licensed to drive just about anything with four wheels in a bit of luck you might get yourself into a beauty like this new Mercedes Vince does all the thinking for you Greg's power steering and all the wonderful things to help you get very very safely where you want to go on the other hand you want to drive a car like this it's not quite the same no power steering no power brakes and as for changing gear well it's called double D touching you have to put the gear leaver into neutral rev up the engine and try to get the lower gear it's not easier the gentleman that drives this car teaches people how to use it but here at Pebble Beach we're going to have something over 200 cars that will be doing the tour d'Elegance that is only something you'll get to see here at Pebble Beach [Music] so all these gorgeous cars that have just finished the tour d'Elegance have been down what I think is one of the greatest drives in the whole of North America the coast road from Pebble Beach to Big Sur lucky guys however there's a little bit more to it because if when the judges judge these cars for class winner and one of them has been on this tour and finished it that car will get preference for the win so in other words there's a little bit more to this tour d'Elegance than we realized when we started [Music] I'm sitting here with Mon vendrá saying sir very nice to see you pleasure we're responsible for the raj class yes I've helped Sandra with the curating the Raj class bringing 9 cars of their India and further four more out of United States and China so can you tell us what's the biggest challenge about putting together a new class at Pebble Oh one of the most difficult thing is of course your government regulations in both India and United States now that they've become so friendly it's easier to bring the cars in otherwise earlier it was not possible at all the last time we got three cars which much difficulty it takes five to six months paperwork to get the cars clear but this time it was a little bit easier than the last time so I was able to bring nine cars representing India's spectrum from 1921 to 1947 in different body styles is there a particular area or arrogance issue that you're more fond of like the earlier I know like some of those old original Rolls Royces are just spectacular yes the reason being that I had to make sure that I don't overload it with Rolls Royces because India was a very big market for Rolls Royces yeah right for Tiger hunting yes yes one third production of Rolls Royces between 1912 and 1947 landed in India so you can imagine what a great market it was what is there a particular car there that's a favorite of yours I know we've seen the class winner but oh not really because I've been associated many of these cars but there is definitely a lagonda which had which is a replica of the Lamar winning car which I've driven quite a bit so that's one of my favourite cars very good well thank you very much it's been a real honor not only interview you but also just a joy to look at the car thank you so much great to be here all right boys we're gonna throw it back to you all right thanks very much Jonny now going on on stage right now is some charity fundraising which is also a big part of every year's Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance over a million dollars a year is raised for local charities and I think the the conquerer is justifiably proud of that Angus absolutely I mean the people come here they give generously you know they've had the opportunity to see some absolutely wonderful cars there's a great atmosphere here too people mix and and get together and talk about cars and this is an opportunity for the hobby for those that really enjoy these cars to give back to the community and it's something that the organizers are indeed very proud of now we are waiting for the tabulations to continue toward best of show and we have them will certainly bring them to you it's the climax of the entire day here at the Concours d'Elegance right now we're going to join the IDI so I'm here with a very special guest the master of ceremonies derek hill and i derek i know you've been coming here for a number of years but but how long you know i hate to say it I be coming here my whole life this was the family vacation every summer my father obviously was very involved in car restoration and isn't as a judge and we well as kids we loved coat tailing along with him it's fantastic so it's it's been so many years and lately you've become you know the the voice of the master ceremonies here is it is it so special for you it's incredibly special in fact I've only grown to appreciate it more and more every year as my role has gone from being an entrant to being a judge and now to be on the ramp with the best seat in the house I love it and I feel like I sense that enthusiasm amongst the collectors and the people who come to see the show it's fantastic so what is what's your favorite thing the the must-see activity here at the Concours d'Elegance well absolutely you have to go check out the concept lawn I love to see all the manufacturers bringing out their latest new creative concept and just really Wow in the media allowing the attendees and then of course you have to go take a walk around the lawn and see which cars have been entered into the show and and try and figure out which ones might be contenders for the best of show absolutely well best of luck today Derek and back to you guys that of course was Derek he'll son of the great Phil Hill and as I mentioned earlier in our broadcast the longtime emcee here at the Pebble Beach Concours elegance that interview was recorded earlier today and it all makes for a very long day for Derek it has a long day it's a long day for all of us I can remember coming to Pebble Beach as a journalist years ago and you used to come here look at some great cars have some great conversation have some great meals now I have to work that's gone wrong where does the time go we used to be able to really stretch our legs and enjoy ourselves but now it's just go go go the action continues on the stage raising funds for charity while the tabulation continues of course the real reason folks are hanging around in addition to the fact that Jay Leno is a part of those charity fundraising is because we await the best of show results but in the meantime let's catch up with our buddy Allen de Cadenet this is a wonderful 1921 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost it was bought new by the one kinnear family in India the Maharaja of one Kinnear bought it they've had it in the family ever since it was new it has never been restored just have a look at this car it's in the most delicious very recoverable but there it is in its beautiful delicious original state and the lady sitting in the rear here it's her family who have owned the car ever since it was new that'll shortly be a hundred years old you have to wonder how many families have owned a car for nearly a hundred years and they've sent it over here so that we can all enjoy it at the Pebble Beach conquer the lagoons alright thanks very much Alan now we'd like to join our colleagues at Lowe and Johnny Lieberman so as we were waiting for the winners has there been any moments today that really stood out to you yeah you know I think we've seen a lot of great Clips during this broadcast but really you know Eric's interview talking about Jay I the Japanese automotive Invitational has a special place in my heart we we had this conversation with Phil O'Connor at infinity at the LA Auto Show we talked about you know how do we make you know this event even better how do we how do we make it something that maybe brings in a different demographic so younger enthusiasts you know because when you when you come out to the lawn on Sunday and you see all this all these beautiful cars all these beautiful people you know you know how much you know goes into this you know I feel like the bar is really high there's a barrier to entry here if you want to be a collector get into the scene and hopefully by bringing out you know some more accessible more affordable more something more relatable vehicles more modern newer in the the Japanese you know realm we can get more people to come and enjoy the spectacular that's a great point because you know I had a guy hit me up on Instagram and he goes hey can normal people go to this or do you have to be a special person like no anybody is free to come but there's just this kind of mental barrier to getting here exactly it really is for everybody exactly and what I really loved about you know both the JI and other events here is that you do see when you do see young people they are very engaged with with the content there I saw a lot of people with their phones out instagramming Facebook loving may be vlogging to YouTube or whatever and that's what we need we need more people to get involved and be exponents you know of this great scene but but how much for you I had I had two moments that really stood out one was back to that great Cadillac that Hartman Cadillac where I was looking at the car next to it was a beautiful v16 Cadillac which had any other cocoa in the world would win just for showing up it was that high quality and there's 50 people looking at the white Hartman no one's even looking at it because it's that you know the the the Hartman such an eyeball magnet you know and so that really struck me is like it's an embarrassment of riches right but then the other moment was you know Tucker is a special class here and it's amazing it's not you know the most Tucker's would ever be together all that but I was looking at that that rainbow green Ruxton oh yeah and I could see the Tucker's behind it and there were you know there was 99 Ruxin's made there was only like 51 Tucker's and I know everyone goes gaga for the for the Tucker's was twice as many Ruxton sir and they're even wilder so it was it was a really good moment and that's what's so cool about Pebble Beach is that it can be filled with that you know like I love citron they had finally had a a citroën class right you know so it's it's one of those things like hey every year we say well how are they gonna top it and yet they top it yep and I've no idea how you top it for next year but I bet you they top it you know yep yeah absolutely and that's why I look forward to coming to this event every year all right thanks very much guys and now it's time to rejoin Allen de Cadenet hardly was world war two over and boiled Italy who didn't do so well in it were constructing with any materials they could lay their hands on this is a Cisitalia 1947 it's got a Fiat 1100 motor in there and it's got an all aluminum body and if you have a good look at this little car the detail it's typically Italian if Bernini the sculpture didn't have a hand in the design of this and don't forget too that the greatest of drivers Tazio Nuvolari would always have a drive in a Cisitalia if he could all right Thank You Alain Angus you and I have been talking and occasionally you will point out that you've driven that car or a car like that and so forth of the cars in this year's Concord elegans what drive stands out to you that you've made one of these cars there's one car here that is is truly truly special didn't make it up onto the ramp it was an in an exhibition car wasn't to be judged it's a car out of the Indianapolis Museum it is the Watson roadster in which Parnelli Jones won the 1963 Indy 500 now I've known about that car since I was 8 years old because my uncle had a Floyd Clymer Indianapolis 500 yearbook and that car was on the cover and in 2011 I got the opportunity to drive that car at Indy oh and Parnelli Jones was there too he also drove the car it was the first time he'd sat in it since 1964 but for me personally I've driven a lot of cool cars over my career but that is probably one of the greatest moments to drive around the legendary Brickyard in a car that won the race I'll say it again you have a great we've got another break coming up as we await the tabulation for best of show you won't want to miss the ceremony that follows the big reveal so stick around and we'll be back to the Pebble Beach Golf Links after this the ultimate driving machines really do deserve the ultimate driving weekend [Music] [Music] away from the checkered flag a sconce of birth cheerio it's really addicting I'm gonna get everything I got the big questions that I know you're all wondering about what does it like to have seven hundred and fifty five horses under your right foot we're gonna go drag racing calling tractors [Applause] those are work [Music] and there's a check joining me now is a longtime personal friend who also happens to be a Motorsports legend and a longtime honorary judge here at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance five-time lamothe 24 hours winner Derrick Bell Derrick great to see you here and you tube up in a while I wasn't aware that you have a long history as an honorary judge here in fact you're also a chief honorary judge for one of the crews out there so you vote for best of show heavy responsibility is it it's very very easy for us I I I'm not an expert none of us are an expert they're experts out there they go along and check that every nut and bolt is the right size the right color and all the rest of it and the paint stuff of the under under paint and things like that for us we just go along and aesthetically look at it and say that's a magnificent looking car and then on top of that of course we then have to judge its palmares against maybe like today we're judging 16 different Oscars pebbly and say what's an Oscar you know is it one of those things you win when you're a good actor but in this case they're beautiful Italian cars way back from in the 50s and 60s that the Maserati brothers decided to create and they look like they smaller Maseratis than we're used to and they're all I did pretty much identical and lot and it's just amazing to meet these different owners with their beautiful little cars and then try and analyze and work out what has the best credentials Phil Hill drove that one you know Dan Gurney drove that one you go Wow okay and they realize they're pretty special what goes on during the discussion among your judging crew and you're looking at the cars and people are making their own individual decisions about what they're seeing well basically you mean you look at them and you go this is going to be easy until you realize that each one has got each one has done you know 57 races and other ones done 97 another one's done this rally and that rally and then you have to look and then you certainly hope you find a car in there that's special that stands out a bit more than the others and you think thank goodness for that because and and and you look through them all and you know the it's the car that maybe went to Europe and had a v8 engine put in it that the others didn't have and then it went out and had to go at Bonneville when he came back to America and you realize it was a very versatile piece of technology and the other cars were just used as not even a road carved on a daily basis but you know running classic races and all about the country and they did Sebring 12 hours and that they've all got a history it's quite remarkable so we're looking at that and then I can't help but not want to look at a car that looks like it just came off the drawing board and out of a factory where it's been highly polished I what we I think believe because they're their racing cars ish we want to see that they've actually got looked like they've had a racing career somewhere not that they've never done anything you looking I would never did any racing did a few laps at a certain circuit and you go that's not quite it what it's about we're here to look at raw cars you know we want to we want to look at the cars and think say at Altima ly when it's difficult say okay so which car would you like to take home today and that really is the answer which so all round you know the history of it and then what do you think is the prettiest best and the car you like to drive well it's great to see you here and thanks for your hard work making those kinds of decisions it's fun it's funny sometimes in the between when you get the Italians in the English fighting and the French butting in about their favorite it gets a bit tricky but it's fun thank you my great friend Derek Bell look at a beautiful Rolls Royce which somehow brings to mind our colleague Alain de Cadenet talent in 1959 satori de SDS 19 this is a baleen doozie that's a Berliner a coupe a of the factory but not only is that quite a rare car it was built down to a price but the French would say not Dias but Deus and what is a deus in French a goddess that was really the secret to these cars they weren't goddesses they are beautiful cars indeed Elle and Angus you've been eyeballing these Citroen's all weekend 1955 Paris show the Citroen deer Sapir for the very first time and instantly it made every other car on the road look obsolete and I don't think there's been a production car launched in the world at any time in the history of the automobile that has made all its contemporaries look so old-fashioned not only did the car have that unbelievable styling it had hydropneumatic suspension it had the ability the unbelievable ride quality it had much less manual transmissions it was just so far ahead of its time the DST is arguably the greatest production car of all time in my humble opinion no Johnny Lieberman agrees with me believe it or not a friend of mine in high school had one of those das with that suspension and you could actually raise and lower the front end of the car using the controls so I guess that was perhaps one of the original lowriders well I had no jack if you wanted to change a tire what you did was you Jack you raise the car up you put a little stand into a hole in the side and then you lifted the suspension you drop the suspension down it would lift the tire off and to change the wheel on the back you had to take the rear fender off the whole fender came off and then you change the wheel of course they're the single spoke steering wheel and you know they don't everything about them was different and wonderful cars absolutely glad to have them here at Pebble Beach meanwhile the tabulation continues and we're still waiting for the final decision the puff of smoke up the chimney if you will that we are ready to present best of show at which point the final three nominees for that great honor will be presented and one will take best of show and the celebrations will begin you'll want to be here for that little high cloud overhead beginning to cool down just a little bit here at Pebble Beach we've just seen one of the two Chinese cars here at Pebble Beach this weekend just drive past us and that it's the first time there's ever been Chinese cars on the lawn here at Pebble Beach they're the giant honky limousines and honky were built by first dirt Auto Works which as the name suggests was China's first automobile company and they're build great big limousines that were used by dignitaries and I'm very excited that we for the first time we've seen those cars here it's important the history of the event once again here's Alan de Cadenet this is an unbelievable machine it's a 1970 Ferrari racing sports car a 5-1 2 s it's got a special Pininfarina body on it looking like a future car I drove a 5-1 - actually at Lamar in 1971 the car that Derek Bell drove at spar in 1970 they were awesome 5 litre v12 fuel-injected engine you can see it in the back there gave about 640 horsepower and the race cars would do 225 miles an hour quite happily maybe more maybe 230 and I can't remember but this is a gorgeous one-off prototype probably built for a show right hand drive you notice like the original 5 1 2 that is one astonishing piece of machinery Thank You Alan we have one last set of special awards to hand out the most elegant award presentations this conquer is first and foremost about elegance and best of show honours often go to one of these most elegant award winners on next award is the JB and Dorothy Nethercutt most elegant closed car which this year goes to the 1937 Alfa Romeo 8c 2900 be touring berlinetta the next award is to Jay human the jewels him and most elegant open car it's given this year to the ninety twenty nine rolls-royce phantom one Brewster York roadster our next award is the Strada McMinn most elegant sports car this is the 1970 ferrari v 1 2 s modulo Pininfarina coupe and our next award is the Gwen gray and most elegant convertible which this year goes to the 1937 Cadillac series 90 Hartman Cabriolet now one of the pillars of the Conqueror mission statement if I can call it that is spreading the word about classic and collected costs not only preserving but telling the stories creating new fans a new generation of restorers and owners and and just fans just enthusiasts of the car I get asked a lot about you know what's going to happen with the car hobby where are the new enthusiasts coming from you see here on at Pebble Beach you know Duesenberg appealed to a generation of people when they were kids they were the dream cars of their youth that the Ferraris that are so popular from the 50s and 60s are dream cars for a generation I think where Pebble Beach will go will be uncovering the dream cars for new generations and does the classic car hobby have a future absolutely because as we head to a world where there's going to be electric vehicles autonomous vehicles those sorts of things cars that you can actually relate to and interact with hugely important well we're getting closer and closer to that moment when the final nominees will be presented the nominees are the 1929 Duesenberg J Murphy town limousine of Sam Lerma from Palm Beach Florida we have a 1937 Alfa Romeo 8c 2900 be touring berlinetta of David and Jenny sidorak from Beverly Hills California and in 1948 talbo Lago t26 Grand Sport Fergana fastback coupe a of Robert Candela from the Czech Republic our favorite 1937 Cadillac did not make the cut yeah that's that is a shocker but all the cars we have all been mentioned the Johnny with the the Murphy body Duesenberg and the zipper car that Ed likes so much so you see on screen there two of the finalists there's the Murphy body Duesenberg a really striking car with that two-tone color scheme is the beautiful beautiful Alfre Mayer 20900 should the the Alfa Romeo win it will complete quite a sweep of being the class winner the winner of the Charles a Shan trophy for the most advanced engineering of its era and should a win best of show that's a good day it is such a beautiful beautiful Chi you know at the legacy and the heritage of alpha and there that was cutting-edge technology it was cutting edge style it was a car that really set moved the boundaries of what was possible in terms of Road car development back at the time the Duesenberg ordered by captain George Whittell the man who developed so much of Lake Tahoe and the has a couple of interesting signature pieces to honor two you can see there's a belt line a polished aluminum and that was on many of the Duesenberg ordered by Whittle and he actually kept that car until 1939 and that cars been here at Pebble Beach before as it was shown here in 1971 so back again and even with a chance at best of show that's quite a story well at this point we will go to the stage and let the drama unfold the best of show ballots have been collected and the best of show nominees have now been assembled to my left you can see those truly elegant cars which the best of show will be identified ladies and gentlemen there is only one best of show and to reveal what car and owner will take home that coveted title and honor we turn to our chairman Sandra Sandra May please have the envelope are you ready the 2018 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance bestest show winner is the 1937 Alfa Romeo 8c 2900 B Turing Berlinetta of David and Ginny sidorak from Beverly Hills California congratulations [Music] to present to present the best of show trophy and ribbon our David Stivers president of the Pebble Beach company and Sondra button chairman of the Pebble Beach Concours Layton's and before we present the rest of the guests can you tell us how you feel feel fabulous it was closed at the end there something was going on it was a long wait at that end maybe it was me maybe it was the car that's all right we forgive these we forgive these old cars what a beauty this is the ultimate accolade in our wonderful world it is Concord elegance for such a truly noble effort from you it's the it is absolutely the World Cup and and we've we've worked very hard I had a wonderful crew on this car wonderful restoration group wonderful detailing people and it's it's a beautiful piece of artwork well here you are then you've you've mentioned this competition many many times you've always hoped you might stand a chance of winning it you hope today and your hope has been fulfilled that dream came true today and this is spectacular it really is with a spectacular car done by a spectacular group enjoy the rest of the day yeah take it easy [Laughter] thank you thank you very much Alan and there you have it the 1937 Alfa Romeo 8c 2900 be touring berlinetta best of show at the 68th Pebble Beach Concord elegance well it surprised us all there was so many of us convinced that the Cadillac was going to win I was wrong II did call it out though and congrats to him it is a fantastic car equally surprising there was a post-war car in the final group that was great to see and I think a worthy winner and a car that's going to be recognized as one of the Pebble Beach greats the AL from their 8c 2900 really was a cutting-edge car well now it's time to start thinking about the 69th edition of the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance and a whole new world of surprises in store absolutely more great cars more great times more amazing things to say can't wait how about a final thought ed low I was really swayed by the beautiful interview that Allan did with both the owner of the Alfa and I said look everybody's looking for that Cadillac but I actually think this Alfa is equally if not more stunning so all credit due to our production team and also our the owner of the car what a fantastic I'm also impressed that you not only picked the Alfa but you also pick the Talbot and the Mercedes okay well anyways August 18th doing it August 18th let's do it again next year can't wait all right thanks very much guys Angus your final thoughts a fantastic Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance this year we've said it before but the quality of the cars was truly outstanding some really interesting classes the raj cars the Tucker's the Indy cars I think it was a great great shot well we hope you'll join us again next year we hope you enjoyed our coverage today and so for our crew for Allen de Cadenet Angus Mackenzie ed Lowe and Johnny Lieberman I'm Bob Varsha we'll see you next year so long for now from the 68th Pebble Beach Concord d'Elegance [Music] you [Music]

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