The Pebble Beach Automotive week started on Wednesday, August 17, and ended with the Pebble Beach Concours d’ Elegance on Sunday August 21.
This year pebble Beach celebrated Mercedes Benz and 125 years of automobile and 50 years of Ferrari GTO.
On Thursday, August 18 was the Pebble Beach Tour d' Elegance. This was a 60 mile drive starting and ending at Pebble beach Equestrian Center, around the Monterey Peninsula. Over 150 historic cars participated in the drive.
Sir Stirling Moss and lady Moss in Mercedes 300SL roadster |
The Concours, held at the 18th Fairway of Pebble Beach Golf Course, had cars from 30 states of USA, Washington DC and 14 countries. There were 40 Mercedes Benz cars including a 1894 Benz Victoria. Also 21 Ferrari 250 GTO were there out of 36 that were produced.
21 1957 Ferrari GTO lined up |
Judging the cars |
1934 Voisin Best of the show |
Best of the show |
Picture credits: Pebble beach concours, sports car digest etc