-Winning Best of Show at a vintage car show is not easy task, but to win Best of Show at the Pebble Beach Concours D’Élégance, where arguably the finest of the world’s finest cars are invited to park on a lawn together for a few hours every August, a car has to be superlative in a field literally stacked with wheeled superlatives. Yet one indeed is deemed the finest car of all, and this year the honor went to an incredible 1924 Isotta Fraschini Tipo 8A Cabriolet.
While there certainly were more ostentatious characters on the Pebble lawn, anyone who saw this Isotta Fraschini knew it was something special. Fresh from a breathtaking restoration, the four-owner car’s styling is stunning if rather stern, its many gloss black panels as smooth and flat as mirrors, while the grille looks like a solid wall of chrome.
-According to current owner Jim Patterson of Louisville, Kentucky, the car was built in 1924 but was fitted with its current body in 1932. “The car is just fantastic,” said Patterson. “It has an 8.0-liter engine in it; it’s got everything you could ever imagine could exist in 1932.”
--
- -
- Tiny Soldiers: Little Car Show Informally Kicks Off Monterey Car Week [Gallery] -
- Cars and Bikes and Things That Fly at the Monterey Jet Center [Gallery] -
- 2015 Pebble Beach Weekend Coverage: News, Photo Galleries, and More -
-
Having conquered Pebble, Patterson may have set his sights on Italy’s Concorso d’Eleganza at Villa d’Este. “It’s an Italian car with a Swiss body. And Villa d’Este loves Italian cars, so we’ll see if that’s our next step with it.”
-
No comments:
Post a Comment