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Palo Alto Concours 2001
The Palo Alto Concours d'Elegance of 2001 was held on the Stanford
University campus and again represents a delightful collection of cars
from the near ridiculous to the sublime. In the former category, at
last year's event, we saw a Corvair with a front mounted Jaguar engine!
The only 912 was Don Massaro's spectacular 1997 version. Wonderful.
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We are all curious about the engine in Richard
Downing's 1958 Speedster.
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A beautiful custom VW Type 1 engine. Check this
out.
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| Last year I had a modern electronic
camera with a dead battery. This year I brought a new
Leica camera that I am testing. No
battery! The rest of the pictures on this page were take with it.
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| Porsche Parking. Who's Paranoid?
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Don Massaro's 1997 912 show car. This time, the
battery in the camera did not die!
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Front view on Don's car.
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Concours judging on the Porsche 356 line. The car
is Thomas Krugman's 1953 coupe with Ed Dugan judging the engine, Tom
looking on.
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| A pair of '65 cabriolets.
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| This is the 50th Anniversary Pebble Beach Concours "Best of Show"
winning 1937 Delahaye 135M Figoni et Falaschi Cabriolet. The link has
several more pictures. 
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Mercedes Benz was the featured mark at this years
event. There were 15 300SL shown, both gullwing coupes and
convertibles. Patrick Matthews brought two, each nicely restored. Here
he is describing his wife's 1956 coupe.
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2 Quad throat webers on a 1956 Pegaso Z-102 Coupe.
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Custom 1968 Jaguar XKE. Wild!
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The car is more than a college education. Tempting.
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The first sports car I ever road in was an MG TC, 1952,
in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. The first one I ever owned was a
MG-A. This is between the two, an MG-TF.
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Last modified: Sat, 02 Jun 2001
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