Pacifica and Coastside Entries at Hillsborough Concours d’Elegance
Pacifica and Half Moon Bay
classic and collectible car enthusiasts have entered four vintage automobiles
in the 57th Annual Hillsborough Concours d’Elegance, which runs 10
a.m. – 4 p.m. Sunday, July 21, at Burlingame’s Crystal Springs Golf Course.
Kathy Castor and Dave Stewart of
Pacifica will show a 1954 Messerschmitt KR175, one of motoring’s rare postwar
mini-cars.
Tony J. Blevins of Half Moon Bay
has entered his 1969 Morris Mini Cooper S. He is joined Charles Kissick, also
of Half Moon Bay, who is exhibiting his rare 1950 VW Type 1 (Beetle) and Ben
and Bob LaMar, also of Half Moon Bay, who are showcasing this 1951 Riley RMD.
Featured marque, at this, the
longest continuously-running Concours d’Elegance in the world, is the fabled
British sports and performance line Aston Martin, now celebrating its 100th
year. Among stately and fast Aston Martins on view is a silver DB5 coupe,
identical the model used in the James Bond film, “Goldfinger.”
Hillsborough will honor the 60th
anniversary of the Chevrolet Corvette with an evolutionary panorama of landmark
Corvettes from a rare 1953 model to the company’s very fast 480-hp 2014 Stingray
LT.
Among elegance classic gracing
the greens at Crystal Springs is a 1935 Duesenberg SJ, only one of three built
and equipped with the company’s then-optional 320 hp engine.
Two rare 1954 OSCA road racing
sports cars help round out a display of competition cars. Both cars are vigorously
campaigned in world vintage racing by owners Phil White of Atherton and John
Grosseto of Auburn.
Other features include a
gathering of Porsche 911s, marking the sports car’s 50th
anniversary, vintage Brit motorcycles, a seminar of the timeless design
features of both Aston Martin and Duesenberg by Academy of Art Design executive
Tom Matano, and a roundup of Fabulous Fifty-Sevens, those big-finned domestics
that would’ve been seen in auto showrooms in October, 1956, first year of the
Hillsborough event.
Admission is $30 adults (kids 13
and under are free) and this is a special $75 patron’s ticket offering
preferred parking, access to the VIP tent, food and beverage service.
Beneficiaries of the Hillsborough
Concours d’Elegance are Autism Speaks, the 49ers Foundation and the
Hillsborough Schools Foundation.
For information, www.hillsboroughconcours.org.
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