Despite being in only its third year, the Cascais Classic Motor Show is rapidly establishing itself as one of Portugal’s biggest and brightest historic motoring festivals. Richard Heseltine was there.
Held over the August 29-30 weekend, and organised by ACP (the Automóvel Club de Portugal) in partnership with Cascais City Hall, the event also included the concurrent Cascais Concours d’Elegance. The 2015 running saw more than 50 entrants descend on the Hipódromo Manuel Possolo in the centre of this beautiful coastal town.
Classes ranged from pre-WW1 veterans to more recent exotica, with Spanish entrant Félix Machín driving his beautiful 1935 Auburn 851 Convertible 650km from Madrid to attend. He won the Post Vintage USA class.
This year’s event also attracted wider overseas’ interest, with Corrado Lopresto’s sublime Franco Scaglione-styled Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider claiming the Post-War Italian Design award. The 1938 Bugatti Type 57C from the Caramulo Collection, meanwhile, claimed Post-Vintage European honours. The Best in Show gong, however, went to Paulo Dantas da Cunha’s delightfully original 1956 Mercedes-Benz 300SC.
Away from the concours arena, more than 500 cars participated in a parade around the coastal roads which were closed to regular traffic, while the addition of the Flying Kilometer ‘race’ for pre-1930 historic cars proved a huge hit with entrants and the public alike.
