Monday, August 22, 2022

there is a lot of coverage of this years Pebble Beach concours and car week to look at, from parking lots, qualifying drives, judging for trophies to the Concours d'Lemons and Radwood


the cars in the Pebble Beach Concours are required to complete the 80 mile round trip from the event to Big Sur and back, in order to be judged. No trailer queens is the object, and the side benefit is that the general public doesn't need to pay their way into the event to see the cars.... just find a nice roadside place along the route, and enjoy.  https://www.hagerty.com/media/events/gallery-the-pebble-beach-tour-is-a-cavalcade-of-automotive-royalty/







Radwood Laguna Seca https://www.motortrend.com/events/radwood-laguna-seca-2022-monterey-car-week-mega-gallery/





and the obscure at the concours, like this Talbot Lago Grand Sport Figoni Fastback built for the zipper king of France  https://www.theautopian.com/cold-start-pebble-beach-car-week-was-a-hell-of-a-week
and keep an eye on the Autopian for thorough coverage of the concours slowly released over the next couple of days https://www.theautopian.com/tag/pebble-beach


and the coverage from Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/isabellord/2022/08/22/the-best-of-monterey-car-week-2022-in-photos which shows the remarkable winner of the Best in Show. 

A 1932 Duesenberg model J, with design by Figoni et Falaschi in the era's torpedo style

The honor rewards years of work: The car, originally belonging to Peruvian sugar heir Antonio Chopitea, was split in two in the 1960s

Chopitea was the first owner of the car and competed with it in road racing and concourse events, A later owner then had a new body designed in the 1960s and swapped the Figoni et Falaschi body onto a different Model J chassis.

After decades of searching, 3 years ago vintage car and boat collectors Lee and Penny Anderson acquired both cars and reunited the original body and chassis through a full restoration. https://www.foxnews.com/auto/1932-duesenberg-best-show-pebble-beach-concours


Rebodied in the 1960s on the whim of its then-owner, this 1932 Duesenberg existed for years in two places—the chassis and motor underneath a new body, and the original Figoni coachwork on a different Model J. Not until three years ago, when Rob Myers, CEO of RM Sotheby’s, helped connect the Andersons with the owners of both those Duesenbergs, did the process of reuniting the chassis with the body begin. More searching was involved along the way; Lee Anderson tracked down the original crankshaft in the engine of a Duesenberg in Vancouver. Happily, that car’s owner agreed to contribute the crank and, years later, the Sports Torpedo became a champion.

8 comments:

  1. I think that is the first Fiat/Bertone X1/9 I've seen on your site. I've always have a soft spot in the head for those little parts bins.

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    1. I am certain it's the 1st, but I had no idea anyone would notice! Ha!
      It was the best example from the Radwood cars of why go look at that links photo gallery.
      I had a classmate who went to a different sub, but we were both at Pearl Harbor barracks, and he had one. I know from that, there is no reason for me to ever post about that car on my blog.
      They look like they'd be a nice sports car, but they failed to be nice, or sports

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  2. Thanks for posting a taste of the Monterrey Car week from a variety of sources.

    That Duesenberg is very pretty. The article says it is the only Duesenberg ever made with a Figoni body.

    The Lincoln concept car in the Forbes article was quite ugly and it looks like it has flat tires.

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    2. You're welcome! With so much coverage of the car week out there, I realized it might be nice to do something new, a good bit of coverage, without ME trying to cover it all. Just link to those that already did. Tywkiwdbi blog does this sort of thing, I think he calls it a link dump, or maybe I'm thinking of Ogdaa blog

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  3. I came back to this post and saw that you had added a link to the Pebble Beach Tour. The Packard in picture #9 looked very interesting to me. The windows on the passenger compartment are unusual, with an opening front window, angled fixed windows on the doors, and vent windows behind the doors. I found that it's a 1938 Packard that was built for George Hormel of Hormel meat-packing, with part of a 1930 Renault body.

    https://blackhawkcollection.com/project/1938-packard-twelve-torpedo-cabriolet/

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    1. thanks! But I didn't post a packard, well, i will now! Thanks for the tip and the info! I have posted about George Hormel (https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-hormel-girls-all-female-military.html ) but never heard about his Packard, thank you!

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    2. There was a picture of the Packard in the Hagerty article linked below the picture of the flamed '32 ford.

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