Cars

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Ludicrous performance

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What makes a car elegant?

The winning car, a 1936 Lancia Astura Pinin Farina Cabriolet, was one of just six examples commissioned by a Lancia dealer in Biella, Italy. Distinguished from its brethren by curved side windows and shoulder-line brightwork, it was found dilapidated in England in the early 1960s, at which point it was restored ‘back home’ by Pininfarina and later sold to Eric Clapton. The car-collecting guitarist apparently proclaimed it “the most fun I’ve had offstage and out of bed.”

A Bavarian banquet

The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance’s official auction house sold 114 of its 137 lots in California, equating to a preliminary 83 percent sell-through rate – an impressive figure in the current market, though still some six percent lower than last year. 

Anniversaries galore