Re: Packard wins Best of Show at Pebble Beach

Posted by su8overdrive On 2013/8/20 14:03:31

Amen, Monsignor Cole. Instead of having opted to idle along a quiet, semi-private driveway, "trouble trucks" and transporters at the ready, breaking a tie, perhaps a disclosure of how the contestant came by his money. Inheritance is number one on the Pebble hit parade. Arbitragers, sending US jobs overseas, mall developers.

One of the most fawned over Names at Pebble, owner of a vaunted collection of Classics in NorCal, produces auto upholstery for the new car industry entirely in a factory in Mexico.

Tim Cole and Tim Howley are right. "Class" oft notably absent.

Once upon a time, concours d' elegances, in Europe in the '20s and '30s, were not janitoral d' nonelegances. The cars were driven to the event the night before, perhaps through rain, parked on the field, usually with whatever road film or mud inside or even on the fenders remaining. The cars were then judged solely on grace of line, ambiance.

Pebble mentality has infected every suburban show and shine
across the nation for decades now. Money see, money do.