London, UK (31st August 2022): The Concours of Elegance, introduced by A. Lange & Söhne, has revealed the ultimate car list for the glamorous automotive extravaganza, which kicks off this Friday within the immaculate grounds of Hampton Court Palace, west London. 2022’s three-day tenth anniversary present will embrace the best array of uncommon, important motor automobiles but assembled, with a 70-car robust foremost concours class, spanning virtually 120 years of motoring. The unmissable occasion – set to be probably the most spectacular but – will run from Friday September 2nd to Sunday September 4th. Here are just a few of the astonishing automobiles that might be on show.
The Concours of Elegance’s thrilling line-up
1903 Panhard et Levasser
The line-up at Hampton Court will embrace a outstanding Panhard, which dates from 1903. Panhard teamed up with Émile Levassor, and created a horseless carriage with a licensed Daimler engine, arguably the world’s first passenger car. In 1903 the agency produced the Centaure S four-cylinder engine vary of machines; the mannequin that might be on show is the 10hp model, outfitted with engine quantity 8171. The car was bought in June 1903 by Sir George White, 1st Baronet (1854–1916), founder of the Bristol Aeroplane Company, as a present for his son, G Stanley White. Remarkably, this enchanting car has remained in single household possession to this present day. An outstanding piece of automotive historical past that gives fascinating insights into the early days of motoring.
1930 Bentley Speed 6 Blue Train Coupe
The imposing British machine sported a raked coupe physique, designed and constructed by coachbuilders Gurney Nutting. The 6 ½ litre-Le Mans spec engine, placing out 180 bhp, was sufficient to propel the machine to nigh on 120 mph. The car rose to fame and gained its nickname after the Bentley proudly owning playboy Woolf Barnato – maybe the main ‘Bentley Boy’, and one time firm chairman, raced the well-known Blue Train north via France. Whilst at a celebration Barnato claimed that he might beat the practice on a run from Cannes on the glamorous Côte d’Azur to Calais. Despite the absence of autoroutes, Barnato convincingly beat the practice. In reality, he received by such a margin that he crossed the channel on a steamer, and made it to central London earlier than the Blue Train pulled into the station in Calais. While there may be debate over the precise car that accomplished the journey, it was the Gurney Nutting coupe that turned related to Barnato’s exploits, and often known as the ‘Blue Train’, because of this. A beautiful car from a fascinating, fearless interval in British automotive historical past.
1933 Packard Twelve Coupe
The Concours line up can even embrace a spectacular choice of Packards, all sourced from the revered Jack Boyd Smith Collection within the United States – the primary time they’ve been displayed on UK soil. Packard was a luxurious car maker beloved by America’s wealthy and well-known, its automobiles recognized for his or her opulence, mechanical high quality and refinement. A beautiful Packard Twelve Coupe Roadster might be amongst these on show – one of solely 5 ever manufactured, and simply two that stay. This mannequin and yr was the primary run of the Packard Twelve, which succeeded the sooner Packard Twin Six. The car incorporates a 7.3-litre 160bhp V12 engine and was the one yr which featured a novel foldout window design. This explicit Packard instructions a sizeable trophy cupboard, having received three current awards, at Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance and Concours d’Elegance of America at St. John’s.
1938 Hispano Suiza Dubonnet H6B Xenia
Making a triumphant return for 2022 might be this glamorous ‘Best in Show’ winner from 2016, an unimaginable, one-off 1938 Hispano-Suiza Dubonnet Xenia. This dramatic, artwork deco motor car, with its aero-inspired bodywork was developed by André Dubonnet, an inventor, racing driver and World War One fighter pilot. Dubonnet selected an H6 Hispano-Suiza engine for his creation, and commissioned Jean Andreau to design the unimaginable, streamlined physique. Jacques Saoutchik then introduced the design to life, that includes curved glass, sliding doorways and a panoramic windscreen. This outrageous car wowed the crowds again in 2016 at Windsor Castle, and is about to enthral company over again at Hampton Court in a couple of weeks’ time.
1956 Maserati A6G Zagato
The beautiful Zagato bodied A6G/54 was the last word evolution of Maserati’s A6 collection, the marque’s first post-war sports activities car. Based on a light-weight tube-frame chassis, the A6G/54 borrowed a number of options from the A6GCS sports activities racing car, together with many of its motorsport-proven braking, steering, and suspension elements. The all-aluminium twin-cam 150 bhp 2.0-litre six-cylinder engine initially designed by Gioacchino Colombo for racing was tailored by Vittorio Bellentani to create a dual-purpose car that blended GT civility with thrilling efficiency. The explicit instance that might be on show is chassis 2186, a late-production A6G/54 and the final Zagato Berlinetta constructed of 21 in complete.
1957 Ferrari 500 TRC
Hampton Court Palace will welcome a sensational choice of Ferraris for 2022, because the Concours of Elegance celebrates the storied marque’s seventy fifth anniversary. Among the automobiles on show from Maranello might be a major Ferrari felt by many to be probably the most lovely completion car of all time: the five hundred TRC Sports Racer of 1957 – one of simply 17 produced. The TRC was rapidly developed in 1956 in response to the FIA’s newly issued rules, changing its predecessor, the five hundred TR. The TRC sported a highly-strung four-cylinder engine, producing 190 bhp from simply 2.0-litres of displacement, a remarkably excessive particular output for the Fifties. The 500 TRC is critical because the final of the 4-cylinder Ferrari race automobiles, marking the top of a highly-successful chapter in Ferrari’s storied racing historical past.
1962 Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato
To many probably the most lovely Aston Martin of all: the hallowed DB4GT Zagato, in its most particular kind, no much less. Combining the confirmed, high-performance DB4GT mechanicals with a stunningly trendy – and light-weight – aluminium physique by Italian coachbuilding home Zagato – the DB4GT Zagato represented the most effective of all worlds; the last word Sixties street and racing Aston Martin. The car that might be on present in below two months’ time is chassis quantity 1093/R, the third of the MP209 ‘ultra-lightweight’ motorsport oriented examples, completed within the arresting hue of French Racing Blue. With its svelte Italian physique, and light-weight building, the three.7-litre 314 bhp straight six powered machine might hit 170 mph down the Mulsanne straight at Le Mans. 1093/R is in excellent situation, having lately been handled to a full restoration.
1963 Ferrari 250 GTO
For many the jewel within the crown of the Hampton Court Palace show, and what’s for a lot of the last word Ferrari, certainly, the last word car – the inimitable 250 GTO. With its combine of hanging, curvaceous magnificence, motorsport optimised V12 efficiency and shortage – simply 29 had been constructed – it has grow to be the car arguably most coveted by collectors; the ‘holy grail’ for Ferrari aficionados. Nestled below the lengthy bonnet was a single-cam 3.0-litre iteration of Ferrari’s venerable Colombo V12, lifted from the Testa Rossa racing car. The motor produced 300 bhp, close to sufficient 100 bhp per litre – fairly a feat of engineering in 1962 – and revved with an exquisite V12 howl all the way in which to eight,000 rpm. The instance that might be on show is chassis 4219GT, initially offered to a younger American heiress Mamie Spears Reynolds, and winner of the Daytona 3-hour continental in 1963. A wonderful alternative to savour a real automotive legend that ranks among the many most precious automobiles on this planet. For these a fan of a prancing horse, it actually doesn’t get any higher.
1966 Ferrari 365P Berlinetta ‘Tre Posti’
The occasion’s peerless choice of Ferraris can even function the nigh-mythical Ferrari 365 P Berlinetta Speciale – extra generally often known as the ‘Tre Posti’. The huge, low, and arrestingly modern 365 P, initially conceived to kind the premise of a Le Mans racer, was revealed to the world on the 1966 Paris Motor Show. It subsequently toured the globe, wowing audiences with its futuristic Pininfarina physique, outrageous three-seater cabin, and mid-mounted V12 – the primary Ferrari street car to be so configured. Strikingly futuristic for the time, a sure Gianni Agnelli, auto trade titan and boss of Fiat, was so taken by the 365 P present car that he commissioned his personal, the one different instance produced. Agnelli, extremely discerning when it got here to automobiles, and relatively wild – recognized to get pleasure from flinging himself from helicopters into the Mediterranean – commented that the 380 bhp 365 P had “monstrous acceleration”. With solely two in existence, this extremely important Ferrari can also be among the many rarest and most precious.
1969 Aston Martin DB6 Volante – HRH Prince of Wales’ private car
The show can even embrace The Prince of Wales’s beloved Aston Martin DB6 Volante. 2022 will mark the cherished basic’s return to the Concours of Elegance, 10 years on from its look at 2012’s Concours of Elegance. The Prince of Wales’s open prime Aston is maybe one of probably the most well-known British automobiles of all, an icon that has appeared at quite a few important occasions over the previous half century. The effortlessly cool DB6 Volante was unveiled on the 1966 London Motor Show, proper within the center of the swinging 60s, one yr after its Coupe sibling. Finished within the hanging hue of Seychelles Blue, the car has been treasured and enthusiastically used ever since.
1997 McLaren F1 GTR
The McLaren F1, in its final, most excessive incarnation: the GTR ‘Long Tail’. Just 10 of these racing automobiles had been constructed for the 1997 racing season. With its monstrous BMW-developed V12 and Gordon Murray’s genius design, the F1 GTR competed with nice success, even when up towards purpose-built racing equipment; the street car primarily based F1 GTRs vanquished the prototypes at Le Mans in 1995. The car that might be on show campaigned all over the world with success within the late Nineties, successful at Silverstone within the British GT championship in ‘97 with Chris Goodwin, future McLaren check driver, on the wheel. In current years it has been transformed for street use by the McLaren maestros at Lanzante, making it one of probably the most excessive street registered automobiles wherever on this planet.
These sensational automobiles, and plenty of extra will make up the 70 robust show of uncommon and spectacular Concours Cars at this September’s glamorous occasion. Outside the primary show of automobiles, the Concours of Elegance will assemble round 1,000 additional automobiles in a collection of particular options and shows, in addition to a dwell collector car public sale by Gooding & Co.
James Brooks-Ward, Concours of Elegance CEO, stated: “we’re delighted to announce the distinctive full car list for our occasion, forward of the gates opening on Friday. This is our tenth anniversary present and we’ve pulled out all of the stops to convey collectively a range of automobiles like by no means earlier than. Our objective is to assemble the rarest, most spectacular motor automobiles on this planet; we’ve definitely achieved that for 2022. The 70 robust foremost concours subject, hand-picked by from the world’s main non-public collections comprises numerous motor automobiles of worldwide reputation – many of which have by no means been seen within the UK earlier than.
“We can’t wait to welcome guests to Hampton Court Palace for what is set to be a celebration of motoring triumphs throughout the ages – an automotive extravaganza like no other.”
Away from the automotive shows, Concours of Elegance will as soon as once more be an event of pure luxurious, with champagne offered by Charles Heidsieck, picnics by Fortnum & Mason, and a set of artwork, jewelry and trend shows. Presenting Partner A. Lange & Söhne will as soon as once more showcase some of its most intricate timepieces.
Tickets to the Concours of Elegance 2022 can be found from simply £35 for half-day entry, with full three-course hospitality packages from £320. Tickets might be purchased from this link.
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