The Peninsula Classics Best of the Best Award finalists range from an unrestored 1928 Bugatti to a Le Mans–raced 1964 Ferrari.
This Retro-Style Roadster Is Finally Back in the U.S. Here’s What You Need to Know., which crowns just one winner from the automobiles named Best of Show in the preceding year’s most prestigious concours d’elegance in Europe and the U.S. The award marks its tenth anniversary this year and was cofounded by Sir Michael Kadoorie, the serial car collector and chairman of the Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels group, which owns the Peninsula chain., HRH Prince Michael of Kent, and Henry Ford III.
As a factory racer, it won grands prix in the hands of René Dreyfus, who also campaigned the Delahaye on this list that won at the Quail. Rebodied as a road car, this Bugatti kept winning grands prix with the great Jean-Pierre Wimille driving. Obviously, winning is a habit it has retained. The sole British car on this list was the winner of the Concours of Elegance held at Hampton Court Palace in September. But it isn’t entirely British: with a body by stateside coachbuilder J.S. Inskip, it is one of the few Phantom IIIs to be completed in America. The model was the last largeto debut before the outbreak of war, and the last engineered with significant input from Sir Henry Royce. It’s hard to imagine a more imposing automotive memorial than this 7.3-liter V-12 behemoth.
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