
Monterey Car Week: the Motorsports Reunion and Tour D'Elegance
Have a vicarious car-based holiday with these pics of some rather stunning machinery in California


Life Goals - Volume 5. A 1973 Porsche 917/30 Can-Am Spyder cruising along Highway 1.
Photography: Rolex/Tom O'Neal (Tour D'Elegance) and Rolex/Stephan Cooper (Motorsports Reunion)
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Never change, 1956 Porsche 356A Carrera Reutter Coupe. Never change.

A 1973 Porsche 917/30 Can-Am Spyder leads the pack at the start of the Pebble Beach Tour.
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Climb aboard this 1935 Duesenberg SJ 'Mormon Meteor' Speedster.

Jag's XK150 leads the pack.

Here's that Duesenberg again, leading a 300SL.

Now That's What I Call A Motor Car: Volume 1 etc etc. The 1910 Packard 30 Four Runabout is the very definition of a 'wind-in-your-hair' kinda car. And flies. And anything, really.
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Here's the XK again, pootling along a Californian highway. You can file this away into the 'Life Goals' box.

Oof, that's a beauty: a 1954 Porsche 356 Pre-A 1500 Reutter Coupe rolling through Sobranes Point Beach.
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An Alfa Corto S11 Spyder Touring leads the pack over the Bixby Bridge.

This, friends, is what you call a proper Rolls-Royce: a '33 Phantom II Brewster drop-top.

Dream two-car garage? A W194 racer leads a 300SL, and we're not sure which one we want the most.

Now onto the Motorsport Reunion at Laguna Seca, and a celebration of Ford's Mustang Trans-Am racers marking 55 years since the 'Pony Car Wars'.

You're imagining the noise right now, right?

Choose... wisely.

Not much to see here, other than a '62 Cooper Monaco and a '58 Lotus Eleven in practice.
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