Nine Dinos set for Salon Privé concours

| 28 Aug 2018
Classic & Sports Car – Nine Dinos set for Salon Privé concours

With just a few days until the 2018 running of Salon Privé (30 August-1 September), the complete list of entrants for Thursday's Chubb Insurance Concours d’Elégance has been announced.

It features 53 cars and 20 motorcycles competing for glory in three ’bike and 10 car classes, including one celebrating the Dino's half century, nine examples vying for the category win.

These include a 1968 Dino 206GT, four Dino 246GTs from 1972 and a pair of 1973 Dino 246GTSs. Plenty for Dino historian and member of the concours judging panel Matthias Bartz to get stuck into, then.

Classic & Sports Car – Nine Dinos set for Salon Privé concours

An MGA is among the other concours hopefuls

Visitors to the Blenheim Palace show will also see a trio of Bugattis, a 1926 Hispano-Suiza H6B, a 1938 Lancia Astura Cabriolet Series IV, a 1960 MGA and a 1963 W111 Mercedes-Benz 220SE Cabriolet.

Jaguar fans will be keen to check out the 1961 E-type, ’52 XK120 and 1994 XJ220, plus there are three Lamborghinis contesting Thursday's concours, too: a 1969 Espada, a 1971 Miura S and a 1976 Urraco P300.

And don't forget the Ferrari 275GTB4, 250GT Lusso, 250 Le Mans, 275GTS and 275GTB, or the Aston Martin T-type Sport Tourer, DB2/4, DB5 and ’79 V8 Vantage.

In addition to the class celebrating the Dino's 50th, cars will be competing in the following catgeories:

  • Preservation at its Best
  • Pre-war Bugattis
  • Pre-war Luxury Tourers
  • Grand Tourers of the 1950s & ’60s
  • Wind in Your Hair
  • Best of British at Blenheim Palace
  • Streamlined Closed Sports Cars
  • Supercars of the ’70s
  • Competition Cars

 

And as well as the aforementioned Matthias Bartz, Chubb Insurance Concours d’Elégance judges include five-time Le Mans winner Derek Bell MBE, former Grand Prix motorcycle rider and double British Champion Steve Parrish, and supermodel Yasmin Le Bon.

Salon Privé runs from 30 August to 1 September at Blenheim Palace – to get tickets, please click here.


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