One of the biggest gripes you hear against the Pebble Beach Concours d’Élégance is that it’s a static car show, with the cars parked on the preternaturally perfect grass of the Pebble Beach golf links, more art objects than automobiles. There is, however, an opportunity to see those cars—most of them,…
2015 Monterey Car Week Concludes with Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance
Once each year in August about 200 of the most prized collector cars and motorcycles in the world roll onto the fairway of what is often called the best finishing hole in golf — the famed eighteenth at Pebble Beach Golf Links. Tire meets turf and transformation occurs: the stage…
11 Beautiful, Awful Cars From the 2015 Concours de Lemons at Pebble Beach
Monterey Car Week’s crescendo is not, as you previously thought, Sunday’s Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. It is, in fact, Saturday’s 2015 Concours de Lemons, because that is the best event of the week. Anyone with an eight-digit bank account can enter a car into Pebble, but it takes more than…
2015 Monterey Car Week Continues with the Pebble Beach Tour d’Elegance
The Pebble Beach Tour d’Elegance presented by Rolex is an annual driving event that delights entrants and spectators alike. Initiated to showcase the elegance of the automobile in motion, the Tour also underscores the early history of the place that is Pebble Beach. Decades before golf links were laid out…
2015 Carmel Mission Classic: Car Show and Blessing of the Automobiles
“Carmel Mission feeds the spirit, fine cars feed the passion, fine wine and gourmet food feed the body. Join us in celebrating all three.” Frank DiPaola, Event Chairman Wednesday, August 12 – A ONE OF A KIND EVENT combining the passion for fine automobiles with the Faith and the Palate….
9th Annual Carmel-by-the-Sea Concours on the Avenue
The streets of Carmel are bumper to bumper with cars and elbow to elbow with spectators for the 9th Annual Carmel-by-the-Sea Concours on the Avenue. This annual event has grown into the Monterey Peninsula’s most popular show. Concours on the Avenue combines the charm of Carmel with an International flair,…
Watch The Corvette Stingray Get Built On “How it’s Made”
For nearly 35 years, the center of the Chevrolet Corvette world is Bowling Green, Kentucky, but the assembly plant has never produced a Corvette Stingray until the introduction of the C7 model last year. GM had to give the Bowling Green Assembly Plant a top-to-bottom renovation to build its cutting…
Watch An 82-Year-Old Grandma Race Her Corvette Flat Out
Shirley Veine, 82, isn’t your average granny. She doesn’t drive a 1992 Oldsmobile Silhouette, nor does she believe old people should be cooped up in a nursing home watching repeats of the “The Price Is Right.” Instead, she enjoys the fast life — and she proved it last weekend by…
Breaking: 2015 Callaway Corvette Z06 Makes 757 HP And 777 Lb-Ft
Yup. Callaway just turned the Z06 up to 11. By: Paulo Acoba | Art of Gears Callaway and their Corvette packages have always taken us by surprise every time they announce a new iteration of what Corvette has blessed us with. According to their official press release that various forums…
Someone Is Selling A Star Wars-Themed Corvette On eBay
Well, it’s not a landspeeder, but it’ll do. A Pennsylvania man had this 1974 Corvette airbrushed into a driving Star Wars poster in the late ’70s — and now it’s available on eBay to the highest bidder. According to the auction, the man — who has since passed away and…