Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance 2014 – Best in Class Winners
Best in Show Concours d’Elegance, 1937 Horch 853 Voll and Ruhrbeck Sport Cabriolet, Bob and Anne Brockinton Lee – Sparks, NV
American Classic Pre-1930, 1929 Willys Knight 66B Plaidside Roadster, Richard and Shirley Hamilton – Wauseon, OH
American Classic 1931 to 1935, 1935 Pierce-Arrow 1245 Convertible Coupe, Sam Lehrman – Palm Beach, FL
American Classic 1936 to 1948, 1937 Cord 812 S/C Phaeton, Ron and Betsy Thomas – Zanesville, OH
American Powered European Coachwork, 1938 Buick 44 Drop Head Coupe, Chris and Jack Beebe – Osprey, FL
American Production, 1963 Studebaker Avanti R2, Dave Kinney and Stella Koch – Great Falls, VA
Beach Cars, 1948 Ford “Dunesmobile” Super Deluxe Convertible, The Hagerty Family Collection – Traverse City, MI
Bentley, 1936 Bentley 4-1/4 Litre Pillarless Coupe, Andrew W.J. Davidson – Bolton, Ontario, Canada
Very nice coverage, but I think you forgot to mention the Motorcycle Class winner….
M
Check out page two…
Just a beautiful bunch of cars! Thanks for posting.
Were there any of Jack Andrew Griffith’s GRIFFITH 400’s? Jack should look at the 2013 Oldtimers Gran Prix to see his Griffith 400 beating Shelby AC Cobras, Corvettes, Mercedes 300SL’s, lightweight E-Jaguars, Lotus Elans (very fast ones and light), Porsche 904’s, Aston Martins, and regular E-Jaguars. One can see the race on U-tube and look for the light blue TVR Griffith 400 driven by Sean or Michael McInerney. One more lap and Griffiths car would have caught the Lightweight E-Jaguar (who won the race with a lot of blocking by other Jaguars and other slower cars. Note how the Jaguar driver looks at his rear view mirror to see how close the Griffith 400 is). My wife and I were at Amelia Island in 2012, and notice that few persons knew about the Griffith 400 and it capabilities. We also learned that Jack was on and is on the Board of Directors of the Amelia Island Concourse D’ Elegance. ………Jack thanks for making 59 individuals in the world own one of the only sportcars that could beat Shelbys AC Cobras.
It’s always great for fans of a car to puff out their chests about their cars, but I hadn’t previously heard any references to period races when the Griffith 400’s beat AC Cobras. Without specific information about such victories in the 60’s, it’s hard to give credibility to a car based on coming in second in a vintage race in 2013. That is surely not the measure of how good and reliable a race car was in the 60’s over the course of a championship season.
Having said that, I was sure impressed with the power to weight ratio of the Griffiths and saw one perform on the street in 1965. Nothing like it for pure fun.
Alex: Take a look at the 2011 Silverstone, Gentleman Drivers, race in the UK and you’ll see the McInerney Griffith 400 beat all the Shelby AC Cobras. The grey Cobra with the red stripe on its fenders was the winner of the SPA-Francorchamps and it does pass the Griffith during the race, however, the Griffith passes the super fast Cobra and wins the race. By the way, that Cobra is considered one of the fastest and well prepared Cobras in the continent.
Jack Griffith didn’t have the support of Holman and Moody which was one the the best sport car engineering firms in that era or of Ford, other than the engines. Remember Jack Griffith sold cars and if he sold cars he did sell a whole lot of them (195/200) Series 200’s!
Furthermore, he didn’t, that I know of, enter them in any races. So, basically, the car developed itself on our American Highways. By the time the heavy duty Series 400 came out the factory fire in Blackpool England, and the dock strike that lasted about six months made it impossible for production of the Griffith 200’s or the best of them all the Series 400. The Series 600 was a heavy, underpowered, difficult driving car. A book entitled the Griffith years has good information on the 600. The 400 was a racecar build for the streets.
My best,
CPJ
This was a great set of photo`s, brilliant shots, especialy the `37 Horch v&r 853. these days I am appeciating horch and talbot lago coupes – not forgetting Bugatti`s
Very nice gallery of photos. I think Mr. Kappel’s Packard is a 1935 or 1936 model, though,not a 1934. Still a lovely car.
One of the pictures you show is labeled a 1934 Packard Sport Roadster. I believe it is a 1937 Packard Convertible Sedan perhaps by Dietrich