The 2010 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in beautiful Carmel, CA started its festivities under gray skies and a cool breeze from the ocean. The sun shone for a few brief moments before retreating behind overcast skies, but the full onslaught of old and new exotic cars took over the streets of the Monterey bay area along with the garage queens on display at the Pebble Beach Resort.
The Pebble Beach Concours, though, is the centerpiece of a weekend that draws thousands of enthusiasts and owners to the Monterey bay area. The Pebble Beach Golf Links are closed only once each year: the third weekend in August when the 18th fairway welcomes an international collection of automotive style, performance and history.
The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance is arguably the top automotive event of its kind, bringing together the absolute best vintage automobiles to the 18th green of the famed golf course at Pebble Beach. Automobiles are judged for their historical accuracy, their technical merit and their style. Awards and recognition are given to those deemed to be the best in their class. The 60th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance happens this Sunday, and what began as a little gathering for car buffs in central California’s Del Monte Forest has blossomed into the one of the world’s great concours events.
The gallery below features some great examples of cars – vintage and modern – some of which are up for auction, while others are on display. Another one of contributing editors was at Pebble Beach on Friday and posted up his photos on another site. Click the link below to view Danny’s set of Pebble Beach photos.
http://ebaymotors.posterous.com/
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- Gooding & Co. Auction
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- Gooding & Co. Auction
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- 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing
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- 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing
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- 1995 McLaren F1
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- 1957 Packard Clipper Country Sedan Station Wagon
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- Shelby GT 500
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- Shelby GT 500
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- Shelby GT 500
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- Shelby GT 500
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- 1966 Ford GT40 Mk I
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- 1966 Ford GT40 Mk I
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- 1949 Jaguar XK120 Alloy Roadster
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- 1934 Alfa Romeo 6C 2300 Pescara “Monza”
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- Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing
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- Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing
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- Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing
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- 1959 Autobianchi Bianchina Transformabile
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- 2010 Cadillac CTS Coupe
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- 2010 Saab 9-5 Aero Sedan
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- 2010 Saab 9-5 Aero Sedan
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- Spyker C8 Aileron
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- Spyker C8 Aileron front suspension
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- Spyker C8 Aileron front suspension
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- Spyker C8 Aileron pedal setup
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- Spyker C8 Aileron Cockpit
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- Spyker C8 Aileron handstitched leather
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- Spyker C8 Aileron shifter linkage
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- Spyker C8 Aileron dashboard
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- Spyker C8 Aileron
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- Spyker C8 Aileron
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- Spyker C8 Aileron
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- Lexus IS-F
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- Mercedes-Benz McLaren SLR Stirling Moss
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- Mercedes-Benz McLaren SLR Stirling Moss Seating
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- Mercedes-Benz McLaren SLR Stirling Moss Cockpit
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- Mercedes-Benz McLaren SLR Stirling Moss
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- Mercedes-Benz McLaren SLR Stirling Moss
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- Gran Turismo 5
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- Playing Gran Turism 5 at the Mercedes-Benz showroom
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- The real Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 race car
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- Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 center console
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- Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 cockpit
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- The real Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 race car
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- The real Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 race car
I have always wanted to go there. I’m a member of an antique car club for more than 15 years and I’ve been to many car show but his year I was there at Pebble Beach and I still can get over all that money and all those peaples wiith money but in the filed we were all equal. I even had my picture taken with Jay Leno and he is quite a nice guy.Thanks I’ll go again for sure.
All I can say is wow. I knew about the Historic Races but not of blingiest cars in the world!!
Does anyone else have photos or stories from this year’s Pebble Beach Concours?