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Photography by Tim Scott
It’s a world unto itself, the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. Each judging class is chosen to include entrant vehicles that have made an impact on the automobile in one way or another, and it’s not strange to see cars you won’t anywhere else—like the Best In Show winner, a 1936 Lancia Astura by Pinin Farina.
Over the course of the event, the process of elimination is as follows: cars are lined up by class and judged on the Pebble Beach Golf Links’ 18th fairway, and whittled down to a class winner. Each of those is driven to the resort lodge, given an award—and judged again to earn, maybe, Best In Show.
The Astura packs a V8 engine up front, rear-wheel-drive, and coachwork from Pinin Farina; it was one of the grand touring, ultra-high end sporting cars that struggled to find buyers during the ’30s. Completed examples, however, were some of the most impressively finished cars ever, something this particular Astura was a testament to.
It had to beat out both a 1938 Delahaye 165 Cabriolet by Figoni & Falaschi and a 1931 Stutz DV-32 LeBaron Convertible by Victoria; neither were exactly push-overs. Which of these cars would you have awarded with Best In Show?
I’m with you Dustin..I think.
The P4 is just sooo sexy. But so is the early GT40. The early ones with the wire wheels are about as perfect as a car can be. All these others are fabulous too and it’d be great if they were labeled. I think there’s a Cisitalia in there and of course the BMW is stellar. I really want to know what the blue one with the incredibly voluptuous front fenders is.
I’ll mention that the red #3 car is a 1965 Bizzarrini A3/C that won its class at Le Mans that year, and is owned by one of the best car people around, Bruce Meyer. I enjoyed watching the car arrive at PB in the morning and seeing Bruce jump out (well, sort of slide out) with a big smile. Petrolicious has a great new video of that car and Bruce which is well worth your time.