On Sunday I attended the North Shore Concours d’Elegance, which is
held every summer in my hometown. The event is situated on a beautiful
oceanfront estate, which serves as an elegant backdrop for the amazing cars
that are on display each year. This year the event was going to feature a
Microcar class. I put out the word among people in the area with little cars, but I
was the only one to sign up in the category. While I often joke that my car is
in a class by itself, they couldn’t really hold a competition with just one
car. As it turns out a few other microcars did attend and we probably could
have had a class. I guess there’s always next
year.
There was a lot of pre-event publicity. There were even a few
articles in Autoweek magazine’s blog that mentioned my car!
Here are some pictures of the Microcars and some of my other favorites:
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| Autobianchi convertible: won a prize |
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| A BMW 600 parked next to my Heinkel . We had a lot of visitors! |
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| A close up of my friend Dan's 600. Technically it's not an "Isetta" |
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| A VW 21 window bus |
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| American luxury circa 1971 |
The Eldorado and the Lincoln were direct
competitors and bookend a 1972 Cadillac Coupe d’Ville. The Lincoln has a 460 cubic inch V8, that Cadillacs had a 472 cubic inch V8. The Heinkel, by
comparison, has 12 cubic inches. Maybe that’s why those other cars get about 8mpg.
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Chrysler
New Yorker Convertible
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A “love it or hate it” color scheme on the this freshly restored award winner. I like the colors.
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| 1904 Olds with Tiller Steering |
You can
understand why horses were scared when they heard these cars. Very loud and
interesting noises from a 100+ year old car!
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| Under the hood with a Stanley Steamer steam powered car from the 20’s |
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| Morris Wagon. A microcar (sort of) |
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| 1936 Cord 810 |
The Cord was the first car with hideaway headlights. The car also had front wheel drive.
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| Jaguar XKE 2+2 and Roadster. Arguably the most beautiful cars ever made |
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| Tool kit integrated into the trunk on a 70’s BMW Alpina |
For more official coverage, you can visit the Concours website at
http://endicott.edu/concours.aspx.
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