The Cortile Italian car show is one of 16 car shows taking place on Saturday during the nation’s largest vintage race event, the Pittsburg Historic Grand Prix. Of the 16, the Cortile certainly has the most flair.
This Sunday, Connecticut’s capital burgeons with Italian exotics, from Ferrari and Lamborghini to Maserati and the impossibly exclusive offerings of Pagani. But, more than that, Concorso Ferrari & Friends brings smiles to the faces of 40 children who are currently patients at the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center.
You’d be hard pressed to find a Ferrari buff who doesn’t consider the 1962-1964 250 GT Berlinetta Lusso, a.k.a. 250 GT/L, one of the top five most beautiful Ferraris. Many consider it the most beautiful Ferrari ever, an automobile worthy of possessing for its stunningly elegant Pininfarina design alone.
Every year since 1964, the Ferrari Club of America has held a multi-day event for members and owners from around the world. The meet, always in or around a major North American city within spitting distance of a race track, amounts to one of the world’s largest gatherings of Ferraristi and their prancing horses.
The Elegance At Hershey brings with it an auction selling select pieces of stately automobile art. Presented by The Finest Automobile Auctions, this aptly named auction house is offering a small, but distinguished, docket on the Saturday preceding the concours.
What Ferrari left out of the F40 made clear what kind of car it was. There was barely any sound insulation, and no radio. There weren’t even interior door handles; you reached into a recess in the door to pull a cable. Early cars had sliding Lexan side widows; later versions had hand-cranked roll-up windows.
Formerly called the Reading Ferrari Concours, this prestigious automotive event is back at the luxurious Reading Country Club after a brief stint at the Simeone Automotive Museum. The name may have gotten a bit more generic, but the quality of the cars being judged has remained world-class.
RM Sotheby’s holds a coveted spot as the last auction of fine automobiles before the Grand Prix. The Monaco auction boasts a docket as varied and distinguished as one would expect from RM Sotheby’s, as well as a handful of spunky Fiats and microcars.
Nobody does speciale like Ferrari. Even in an age when global auto regulations make building custom vehicles for public sale difficult, if not impossible, Ferrari finds a way to do just that. The Ferrari F60America is one of its most thrilling forms of proof.
