Featured Shows in September

include the Luxury & Supercar Weekend with the Shaughnessy Concours d’Elegance on Sept 7–8 in Vancouver, British Columbia, and the 11th Annual Kirkland Concours d’Elegance held on Sunday, Sept. 8 at the LeMay Museum in Tacoma, WA. (See below for Kirkland story)

 

 

On Sep­tem­ber 7–8, over  $100 mil­lion dol­lars of lux­u­ry and high-end auto­mo­biles will roll into Van­Dusen Botan­i­cal Gar­den for British Columbi­a’s extrav­a­gan­za event, the LUXURY & SUPERCAR WEEKEND which includes Shaugh­nessy Con­cours d’Elegance

 

The roll-in will include over 160 auto­mo­biles in lux­u­ry, exot­ic, clas­sic and super­car cat­e­gories — mak­ing it the largest and most valu­able col­lec­tion of Super­Cars in Cana­da to date. For the fourth time in Cana­da this lifestyle week­end is the Nation’s finest two day out­door show­ing of Lux­u­ry & Super­cars. The 2013 event once again offers a unique up-close and per­son­al oppor­tu­ni­ty to view the world’s most impor­tant exam­ples of auto­mo­tive achievements.

 

Each car on dis­play is hand­picked by the Con­cours d‘Elegance selec­tion com­mit­tee. Auto­mo­tive enthu­si­asts of rare lux­u­ry super­cars, vin­tage col­lectibles, electric/hybrid and con­cept cars will get the chance to view auto­mo­biles that are nor­mal­ly dis­played only at select elite inter­na­tion­al auto­mo­tive events.

 

      SUPERCARS TO WATCH FOR:

• 2013 Pagani Huayra: The only Pagani Huayra Car­bon edi­tion in the world is com­ing direct­ly from Peb­ble Beach and will be unveiled at the media pre­view for its Cana­di­an debut. This is the first time a Pagani has come to Cana­da. Of the 22 Pagani Huayras build to date, this is the only Car­bon edi­tion. It is the fastest road-legal car to go around BBC’s Top Gear test track (2.82km) at a record of 1 minute 13.8 sec­onds. There are only 15 pro­duced in North Amer­i­ca and 3 in Canada.
• 2013 Bugat­ti Vey­ron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse: This will be the first time the Bugat­ti Vey­ron Grand Sport Vitesse (lim­it­ed to 100 units world­wide) will land on Cana­di­an soil. It is the fastest open-top pro­duc­tion car with record-break­ing speed of 408.84km/h (254MPH).
• 2014 Aston Mar­tin Van­quish Volante: Here for its Cana­di­an debut and direct­ly from its inter­na­tion­al unveil­ing at Peb­ble Beach.  It’s the manufacturer’s first con­vert­ible with body pan­els com­prised entire­ly of car­bon fiber.
• 2014 Lam­borgh­i­ni Aven­ta­dor LP700‑4 Road­ster: The most excit­ing series pro­duc­tion Lam­borgh­i­ni has ever built and the new bench­mark in the world of open-top lux­u­ry super sports cars.
• 2013 McLaren MP4-12C Spi­der: McLaren’s first con­vert­ible ever, com­plete with an all car­bon fiber body.
• 2014 Porsche 991 C4S Coupe:  The speed­ster ver­sion of the 991-gen­er­a­tion 911.
• 2014 Porsche Panam­era Hybrid: The first ever plug-in Hybrid elec­tric car by Porsche.
• 2014 Jaguar F‑Type: Named “World Car Design of the Year” at New York Inter­na­tion­al Auto Show. Jaguar’s first true sports­car 40 years after the icon­ic E‑Type.

 (See below for Kirk­land Con­cours story)

 

MODIFIED SUPERCARS (PROJECT CARS) TO WATCH FOR:

• Lam­borgh­i­ni Aven­ta­dor INIZIO (LP700) Project: The world’s first air brake wing for Lam­borgh­i­ni, devel­oped by Cana­di­an Com­pa­ny, Atti­vo Designs.
• Enzo Fer­rari FXX Evo­lu­tion by Edo Com­pe­ti­tion: The only street legal Fer­rari Enzo to FXX spec­i­fi­ca­tions in the world, with the pow­er increased to 950 hp (150 hp more than oth­er fac­to­ry FXXs). There are only 30 FXX in the world.
• Maserati MC12 CORSA project by Edo Com­pe­ti­tion: Only 12 were pro­duced in the world and this ver­sion is the only street legal MC12 Cor­sa in North America.
• Con­quest Evade project by SR Auto Group: The Evade is cur­rent­ly the only one in the world. It is an ultra hand craft­ed lux­u­ri­ous SUV.
• Fer­rari 458 “Reiko” Project, by SR Auto Group.
• 2013 Bent­ley Con­ti­nen­tal GTC V8 NERO ROSSO Project by AWG Per­for­mance One.
• Lam­borgh­i­ni LP560 1500HP Project by Under­ground Racing.
• Lam­borgh­i­ni Aven­ta­dor Lib­er­ty Walk Project by SR Auto Group.

 

CONCOURS CARS TO WATCH FOR:

• 1967 Lam­borgh­i­ni Miu­ra: The world’s first Super­Car to be fit­ted with a trans­verse­ly mount­ed V‑12 engine in the rear on the most icon­ic Lam­borgh­i­ni ever built. Its first appear­ance was at the Gene­va Auto Show 1966.
• 1931 Auburn Boat tail Speed­ster: A pre-war Amer­i­can sports car.
• 1989 Porsche 930 Slant­nose: The fastest pro­duc­tion car avail­able in Ger­many at the time of its intro­duc­tion in 1975.
• 1968 L‑88 Corvette: The most vic­to­ri­ous rac­ing Corvette in history.
• 1934 Alvis Speed 20: The first post-vin­tage design from Alvis.
• 1931 Cadil­lac V12: North America’s most lux­u­ri­ous V12 mod­el at the time of its launch.
• 1991 BMW Z‑1: The first 2‑seat road­ster built by BMW to have elec­tric doors that fold into the chas­sis, a total of only 8000 were produced.
• 1928 Mor­ris Estate Wag­on: Built by Mor­ris Motors which began in Oxford, UK in 1912.
• 1933 McLaugh­lin Buick: Believed to be the only one ever built, it will debut at Lux­u­ry & Super­car Week­end after a long restora­tion that began in 1979!
• 1964 Porsche 911T: A one own­er sur­vivor car that has nev­er been touched, it looks the same as the day it came off the pro­duc­tion line.

 FASHION HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:

• Sat­ur­day, Sep­tem­ber 7^th will fea­ture Vancouver’s largest out­door, design­er fash­ion stage show­cas­ing notable col­lec­tions by var­i­ous high-end fash­ion partners.

OTHER NOTABLE HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:

• Tom Lee Music will be dis­play­ing three pianos val­ued at $1M includ­ing a Schim­mel K 213 Glass piano made out of crys­tal, a Stein­way Kuni­isii designed by a Cana­di­an Hai­da artist Jay Sime­on, and a lim­it­ed Edi­tion Stein­way Ter­centen­ni­al grand piano.
• Sam­sung will be fea­tur­ing their 85″ Ultra HDTV that retails for $40K, in addi­tion to the new 55″ & 65″ Ultra HD TVs.  All three TVs can be tilt­ed and adjust­ed eas­i­ly as they are built into an exter­nal easel.
• An Ital­ian Food and Wine Pavil­ion with over 20 food and bev­er­age partners.
• For out-of-town guests, the event is offer­ing 2 com­pli­men­ta­ry one-day tick­ets when guests book an overnight stay at any one of the 37 down­town hotel part­ners through our book­ing web­site www.bevancouver.com

 

As it cel­e­brates its 11th anniver­sary, the Kirk­land Con­cours d’Elegance begins it’s sec­ond year on Sept 8 at the LeMay – America’s Car Muse­um, in Taco­ma. Fea­tur­ing a nine-acre cam­pus – with a four-sto­ry muse­um as the cen­ter­piece – LeMay-ACM, in the shad­ow of Mt. Rainier 30 min­utes south of Seat­tle, is one of the Amer­i­ca’s largest auto muse­ums. This fam­i­ly-ori­ent­ed event is regard­ed as one of the pre­mier con­cours events in the country.

Fea­ture class­es and awards have been deter­mined for the 2013 U.S. Bank Kirk­land Con­cours d’Elegance, which will take place on the Haub Fam­i­ly Field adja­cent to the musem, and include Mer­cedes-Benz, with a num­ber of the Ger­man automaker’s leg­endary mod­els slat­ed to be on display.

 

Spe­cial class­es will high­light Fer­rari, the Porsche 911, five decades of Lin­coln, Wood­ies, Clas­sic Car Club of Amer­i­ca vehi­cles and a motor­cy­cle class con­sist­ing of Pre-War Amer­i­can bikes.

 

One of the key ele­ments of the Kirk­land Con­cours is the lead­er­ship and par­tic­i­pa­tion of the Clas­sic Car Club of Amer­i­ca’s Pacif­ic North­west Region. Many of its mem­bers par­tic­i­pate with their award win­ning cars, as judges and volunteers.

“Both as indi­vid­u­als and as a club, the mem­bers have been pleased to sup­port the Kirk­land Con­cours d’Elegance since its incep­tion.  There is a huge dif­fer­ence between a car show and a Con­cours”, stat­ed Bri­an Rohrback, PNR CCCA Direc­tor and avid col­lec­tor. ”  We par­tic­i­pate in this great event to bring enjoy­ment to those who exhib­it cars and those who come to appre­ci­ate the art and beau­ty.  This show­case is a source of great pride for our mem­bers and it cre­ates world­wide atten­tion for the qual­i­ty of the auto­mo­biles on display.”

 

Many of the par­tic­i­pants of the Kirk­land Con­cours have been judges, in lead­er­ship and have had their cars in the leg­endary Peb­ble Beach Con­cours d’El­e­gance for many years.

 

 

 

The event’s “Kirk­land Con­cours Award” will be renamed to hon­or Phil Smart Sr., the for­mer title spon­sor of the Kirk­land Con­cours in its ear­ly years. Smart, a long­time lux­u­ry auto­mo­tive deal­er, vol­un­teer and phil­an­thropist in the state of Wash­ing­ton, passed away ear­li­er this year at 93.

Over its first 10 years of exis­tence, the Con­cours d’El­e­gance donat­ed approx­i­mate­ly 1.5 mil­lion dol­lars to Seat­tle Chil­dren’s and Ever­green Hospitals.

 

The Con­cours will also include a Collector’s Class fea­tur­ing the vehi­cles of John Good­man and a Spe­cial Dis­play Class with a vari­ety of impor­tant automobiles.

 

 

The Kirk­land Con­cours will run on Sun­day from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The LeMay Muse­um — ACM, locat­ed adja­cent to the Taco­ma Dome, is a sep­a­rate enti­ty from the LeMay Fam­i­ly Col­lec­tion at LeMay Mary­mount facil­i­ty which hous­es the main fam­i­ly col­lec­tion in south Tacoma.

 

www.kirklandconcours.com

www.lemaymuseum.org

www.lemaymarymount.org