Miles Collier and Jeff Lane have been respectively selected as the Pinnacle and Honored Collectors for this year’s Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival & Concours d’Elegance, scheduled for November 5-6 at the Port Royal Golf Club on South Carolina’s Hilton Head Island,
Pinnacle award selection Collier, who heads up the Collier Collection at the Revs Institute® in Naples, Florida, will be making his debut appearance at the event, bringing along a trio of cars from his collection, an 1896 Panhard et Levassor Wagonette, a 1935 Duesenberg SSJ and a 1960 Porsche RS-60 (above, photo courtesy of the Revs Institute). He joins a list of previous Pinnacle recipients that includes Fred Guyton (2015), Joseph and Margie Cassini (2014) and Sam and Emily Mann (2013).
As 2016’s Honored Collector, Lane, proprietor of the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, will show half a dozen cars handpicked from his extensive collection: a propeller-driven 1932 Helicron; a 1933 Dymaxion Replica; a 1938 Tatra T-97; a 1948 Larmar (the world’s narrowest car); a 1952 Citroën Cogolin; and a 1965 Matra Djet5.
“We could not have two recipients better suited for these honors this year,” said Motoring Festival president Carolyn Vanagel. “Miles Collier and Jeff Lane have gone above and beyond solely preserving automotive history — they are sharing it by opening their collections up to the more than 20,000 attendees we anticipate at this year’s Festival. It is that education that will develop future collectors and continue to make events like ours possible.”
For more information please visit the official Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival & Concours d’Elegance website, www.HHIMotoringFestival.com.
