Full Coverage: 2014 Pebble Beach Auto Show
Each year thousands of haves and have-mores flock to the Monterey peninsula to celebrate classic motoring. The nearly week-long series of events culminates Aug. 17 with the annual Pebble Beach Concours d’ Elegance, considered the most prestigious classic car show in the world.
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The annual auto auctions in Pebble Beach and Carmel roared into the record books with a total of $400 million in sales during Monterey car week.
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The Zagato coachworks company came to Monterey Car Week, and its famed Concorso Italiano, to premier a few new designs for Italian automobiles.
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A 1954 Ferrari 375 MM originally built for Italian filmmaker Roberto Rossellini was named best of show at the 64th Annual Concours d’Elegance in Pebble Beach, concluding the Monterey-area gathering of the world’s most exotic and expensive automobiles.
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Sunday afternoon on the putting green behind Pebble Beach Lodge, a sleek, all-new car reels in a diverse crowd of onlookers.
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Standing next to his five brilliant red supercars on the Quail lawn Friday afternoon, David Lee is the perfect example of how Ferrari’s unrivaled racing history translates into sales.
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An extremely rare 1964 Ferrari GTB/C Speciale was sold for a stunning $26.4 million at a Saturday night car sale in Monterey.
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Every year 60,000 spectators come to Laguna Seca during Monterey Car Week to watch 550 vintage race cars compete for prizes and honor.
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Long before dawn, the faithful came to gather in the darkness on the 18th green of the legendary Pebble Beach Golf Links and wait for the arrival of the vintage automobiles that have come to compete in the Concours d’Elegance car show.
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Representatives of the Petersen Automotive Museum took advantage of the annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance to announce they have collected more than half of the $125 million they will need for their massive planned remodel.
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With such a high concentration of wealthy car collectors at Monterey Car Week, brands including Ferrari, Lamborghini, Bugatti and Bentley don’t just send a fleet of cars for test drives and cocktail parties -- they send the executives to woo current and future buyers.
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Amid the smell of cigar smoke and the clinking of champagne glasses, Lamborghini introduced its all-new Huracan Super Trofeo race car Friday morning at the Quail Motorsports gathering in Carmel.
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Steve McQueen owned and raced exotic vehicles, in the movies and in real life.
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Despite a lower-than-anticipated sale price for Thursday’s Ferrari 250 GTO, overall auction sales at the 2014 Monterey Car Week were up substantially over last year.
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The annual Monterey Car Week, which includes car races, car shows, car auctions, car parades and the ceremonial unveiling of new car models and new car concepts, also makes a little room for motorcyles.
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Every year the super-rich and the mega-rich meet at the Monterey Car Week to show off their prize automobiles, to charge out of history in vintage races with antique race cars, and to compete with each other for awards on the fairways of Pebble Beach, Calif.
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The cats at Jaguar and Land Rover are hunting new prey.
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In a move that will fuel intense speculation about a future sports car from Toyota, the automaker debuted a second version of its FT-1 concept Wednesday night in Monterey.
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Aston Martin has ripped the covers off its DP-100 Vision Gran Turismo, the living version of the video game racer that now stars in the game of the same name.
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A 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO sold at auction Thursday night in Carmel for about $38 million — a record, but far less than many experts had predicted.
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The pale gray machine, its chassis stamped 3851GT, rolled off an assembly line in Maranello, Italy, on Sept. 11, 1962.
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Three storied British brands will be debuting all-new vehicles at Monterey Car Week.
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Classic-car fans and collectors headed to next week’s Pebble Beach auctions may want to pack an extra checkbook: Almost half a billion dollars in sales are expected.
