Saturday, August 15, 2015

Cars and Caviar: We Hit the Quail, A Motorsports Gathering [Gallery]

-----Speaking of Chinetti, here's a 340 Mexico from 1952 that the man himself raced in La Carrera Panamericana.-Ferrari's America cars started off slightly awkward in appearance, but by the time this '59 Superamerica Series III was built, they'd hit a lovely groove.---The Americano's interior isn't exactly chopped liver, either.-If your only two worldly possessions were a Bultaco Mercurio and a BMW E9, you'd still be doing better than 99.9 percent of the world's population.-Big Healey repping an anarcho-syndicalist color scheme at a pointedly-capitalist event.-Tiny '59 Bianchina and biggish 1957 Chevrolet Fuelie Bel Air. As Italian-American as Romano's Macaroni Grill, but significantly tastier.-Remember when a crusty 356 wasn't worth restoring?-The 1970 Ferrari 512S went head to head at Le Mans with Porsche's revised 917 and famously lost. Still rad, though.-The unsheathed business machinery of the Jaguar XJR-S.-The California Highway Patrol escorted a parade of Shelby GT350s over the hill from Laguna Seca.-Ford tossed in a couple of new GT350s for good measure.-An almost-raspberry Bonnet; the kind of D'Jet you find in a second-hand store. Man, we'd lose it if we found a D'Jet in a thrift shop. Like, completely.-51 year old Italian lookers department: a 1964 Alfa TZ-1 and ASA 1000 GT.-This Porsche 906 won its class and took 7th overall in the 1968 Targa Florio.-Ferrari 308s set up for racing are already fantastic-looking cars. This Group 4 GTB features the added bonus of metallic earthtone stripes. The whole package simply kills.-From 1950: a grimacing torpedo called the Cisitalia Abarth 204-A Spyder Corsa. From 1961: the fabulous and flowy Cooper Monaco.-This Osca looks somewhat surprised, but it surely ain't no grouch. It's a 1955 MT4.-Stately, regal, and somewhat understated, this '39 Bugatti Type 57 struck us as our favorite example of the French marque on the field.-No question that the Best of Show-winning 1968 Alfa-Romeo Tipo 33 Stradale is a fabulous, gorgeous automobile. But you know, that yellow '67Fiat Dino ain't no slouch, either.-If the XJ220 wasn't gnarly enough for you, Tom Walkinshaw Racing offered a Group N homologation special with 680 horsepower. Only six were built, and this is one of them.---Years ago, when Dinos were the redheaded stepchildren of the Maranello-worshipping realm, who could've predicted they'd wind up classed with the -Insert tired, sad, -Alpine A110! Alpine A110! Alpine A110! Alpine A110! We might've found ourselves a little carried away there, but hey, it's an Alpine A110!-So we all know that the '73 Porsche 911 2.7 RS is an exceptionally valuable automobile. The lightweight cars are worth even more. Because it's the Quail, we'll give you a guess as to which sort of 2.7 RS this is.-Can we get away with yet another hoary -A perfectly tatty Lambo 400GT.-One of the absolute coolest cars at the show was this Bizzarrini A3/C Corsa. It was the display car at the 1964 Geneva Auto Show, and it's held together with over 7,000 immaculately-placed rivets.---The bumper sticker on this well-loved Jag XJ120 Fixed Head Coupe reads, -One might confuse this with a later LP500 or 5000 QV, but this Countach is actually a late LP400 model. Specifically, it's a 1979 LP400S.-Children of the 1980s generally think a Ferrari 308 looks great in any color. But this GTSi looks especially good to us.-Jaguar 100SS, anybody? Yeah, we thought so.-Carlo Abarth had his hand in all manner of fabulous midcentury automobiles. This Zagato-bodied cutie, a 1957 Fiat-Abarth 750, is one of our favorites.-There were two De Tomaso Sport 5000s at the Quail this year. A ratty one and a lovely one. This is the lovely one. Though the ratty one was pretty lovely, too.-----Bugatti Type 35-1953 Ford Comete-1949 Jaguar XK120-1959 Autobianchi Bianchina-1959 AFiat Abarth Spyder-1965 Jensen CV8 MK II-1957 Fiat-Abarth 750GT Double Bubble-1963 Ferrari 400 SuperAmerica-1932 Fuller Moto Double Down-1973 Porsche 911 RS Carrera-1932 Ford Hot Rod-1967 Porsche 906-1929 Packard by Dietrich-1964 Myers Manx Dune Buggy-1964 Ferrari Superfast Spyder Americano--

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