The 1935 SS One Airline Saloon, owned by Lisa and Jim Hendrix, of Chesterfield, Missouri, took Finest in Present honors within the Concours d’Class Sunday on the 2023 Chattanooga Motorcar Competition Sponsored by Millennium Financial institution.
This fourth annual occasion within the Scenic Metropolis additionally featured Brian Redman’s Targa Sixty Six high-speed observe motion on the Tempo Grand Prix at The Bend (named for the late Jim Tempo, one of many occasion’s authentic organizers), plus panel discussions on topics starting from barn finds to the voices of Pixar’s ‘CARS’ motion pictures to Porsche’s seventy fifth anniversary.
A live performance by The B-52s, a Gathering of the Greats – Porsche Version, together with Luftgekühlt’s assortment of Air-Cooled Porsches, a tribute to race-car driver Brian Redman, and a show of uncommon Ferraris on the Westin Chattanooga in West Village overloaded the senses on the Competition, benefitting Neuroscience Heart at CHI Memorial and the Neuroscience Innovation Basis of Chattanooga.
Sixty race vehicles in 4 lessons took to the under-two-mile race course within the space often called The Bend. The teams included fashionable race vehicles, historic race vehicles and the Ragtime Racers – vehicles from the Nineteen Twenties and earlier, led by native automobile collector and businessman Corky Coker.
Famed automobile drifter Adam LZ carried out tire-smoking drifting demonstrations on the circuit in a 2023 RTR Spec 5 Ford Mustang, whereas competitors on a SimCraft Professional Racing Simulator occurred, pitting media and followers in opposition to time set by Adam LZ, which helped elevate funds for the occasion’s beneficiaries.
The J Willard Marriott Jr. Ferrari Membership was unveiled, offering an space in West Village to showcase collector Ferraris at future occasions.
Celebrities who took half in appearances, panel dialogue and interviews included Grand Marshal Luigi Chinetti Jr., Grand Ambassador Brian Redman, Grand Marshal Emeriti Corky Coker and Lyn St. James, Justin Bell, Tommy Kendall, Chip Foose, Linda Vaughn, Wayne Carini, Patrick Lengthy, David Hobbs, Donald Osborne, and even NASCAR racer Kyle Petty was sighted.
Kevin Cogan was acknowledged because the Honored Collector, and musician John Oates acquired the Chairman’s Award from occasion founder Byron DeFoor.
“Everybody related to the Competition did an excellent job,” continued DeFoor, “and I thank everybody who introduced their precious vehicles, each for the Tempo Grand Prix at The Bend and for the Concours d’Class. We’re proud to share the proceeds of this occasion with Neuroscience Heart at CHI Memorial and the Neuroscience Innovation Basis of Chattanooga.”
“We have been honored to be part of this wonderful occasion. With a race observe only a mile away from downtown Chattanooga and the West Village, Targa drivers took to the observe to get people excited concerning the vehicles. Targa gave the massive crowd an opportunity to see cool vehicles being pushed at pace. Plenty of noise, wheel-to-wheel motion and the chance to rise up near the vehicles and drivers. Adam LZ and the Ragtime Racers have been nice additions to motion on the observe, bringing collectively reverse sides of the motorsports world,” mentioned James Redman, Director, Brian Redman’s Targa Sixty Six.
A full checklist of Concours d’Class award winners might be discovered HERE.
