25 Favorites from the 2017 Concours d’Elegance of America

25 Favorites from the 2017 Concours d’Elegance of America

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Whatever your automotive tastes, it seemed the 2017 Concours -d’Elegance of America had you covered. Fond of early 1960s Big Three -compacts? There was a circle of these “Jet -Age Juniors” just for you. Race cars from the original Can-Am?-Ditto. Got a thing for drag-racing Funny Cars from the early years, before the flip-top bodies? Oh, man. Or perhaps you -agree with the organizers that -Fiat Chrysler’s design chief Ralph Gilles is the -auto enthusiast nonpareil, that it’s time we celebrated the coachwork of -Murphy of Pasadena, or that Arturo and Deborah Keller’s collection of -five streamlined coupes -is the bee’s knees. There were cars that can hit 60 mph in -less than 3.0 seconds and stately luxury machines that probably haven’t touched that speed this century.-In its 39th year, the gathering formerly known as the Meadow Brook Concours (after its original venue) spread all this and more across several holes of the golf -course behind the Inn at St. John’s, a resort property converted from a former seminary in Plymouth, Michigan—and the site of a -Car and Driver–sponsored Cars and Coffee event-the day before. As is its tradition, the concours’ judges chose both a -domestic and a foreign Best in Show, this year -opting for a 1931 Stutz DV-32 Convertible Victoria and a 1924 Isotta Fraschini Tipo 8A. You’ll note that this means the show has yet to break with -another tradition—-the notion that the “best” cars were built before World -War II. -But every automotive taste seems to find its expression somewhere on the field. Here, then, are 25 cars from the hundreds on display that made us stop -and stare long enough to think, “I need a picture of that one.”

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1953 Chevrolet Corvette Chassis #003 Cutaway

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1953 Ferrari 250 Europa by Vignale

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1956 Austin-Healey 100M Roadster

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Aluminum-bodied 1963 Shelby Cobra

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1957 Alfa Romeo 1900C SS Zagato

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1968 Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 Stradale

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1959 DKW Monza Coupe

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1914 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost Alpine Tourer

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1916 Crane-Simplex Model 5

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1925 Renault Model 45 Tourer

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1932 Alfa Romeo 8C2300 Coupe by Viotti

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1937 Duesenberg Model J Airflow Coupe by Bohman & Schwartz

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1937 Talbot-Lago T150C Aero Coupe by Pourtout

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1938 Bentley 4¼-Litre Embiricos Coupe by Pourtout

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1938 Mercedes-Benz 540K Autobahn-Kurier by Sindelfingen

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1963 Rambler American 330 Wagon

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1966 Chevrolet Chevelle “Chevamoco”

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1968 McLaren M8A

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1973 Porsche 917/30

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1981 Lancia Beta Montecarlo Turbo

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1976 Honda Civic Lady Prototype by Coggiola

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2009 Mercedes-McLaren SLR Stirling Moss

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Best of Show, Foreign: 1924 Isotta Fraschini Tipo 8A by Ramseier & Worblaufen

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Best of Show, American: 1931 Stutz DV-32

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