Palm Beach, 24th of January, 2015
Today was the great day of the main event of the 24th edition of
the annual Cavallino Classic in Palm Beach. Brought to life over 2
decades ago the traditional concours at the Breakers is without
doubt on of the early highlights in the classic car calendar and in
particular for the fans of the cars with the prancing horse. Entrants
and visitors from all over the world travel to Florida in the middle of
January to crown the numerous class and special awards for the
cars dating from the early 1950s to the latest Supercars.
Early in the morning, well before the sun was out (although the
sun was not really out today) several cars were lined up in the
driveway of the grand hotel to get on the field early, just to be on
their spot in case the predicted rain might set in. As several of the
racing sports car did not have an own cover or hood the owners
and caretakers of the high valued cars did not want to manoeuvre
in wet conditions but with a constant breeze from the sea the
intended rain was long in coming so everything was easily set up
in time.
Traditionally the concours is divided in three parts, the upper lawn
with the main display of the most valuable cars, the middle lawn
with a special featured class and the lower lawn with the cars from
the 8-cylinder era and modern V12. Main attraction this year was
the class of Ferrari 375 MM and America with a line-up of no less
than five 375 MM PF Spyder (with a sixth in the Classiche tent),
two special bodied versions of the MM including the Pebble Beach
winning 0402AM and the PF Berlinetta 0290AM and finally two
375 America including the Agnelli-car 0355AL.
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