A Preview of the Hillsborough Concours in Photos
Hillsborough Concours d’Elegance
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Image Credit: Hillsborough Concours d’Elegance A scene from last year’s edition.
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Image Credit: Hillsborough Concours d’Elegance A successor to the Rolls-Royce 20 H.P. (aka “the Twenty”), which was introduced in 1922 and powered by a straight-six engine, the 20/25 arrived seven years later.
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Image Credit: Hillsborough Concours d’Elegance This particular car was made to order for the ruler of Romania at the time, King Carol II.
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Image Credit: Hillsborough Concours d’Elegance This car has resided in the Keller Collection since 2015.
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Image Credit: Hillsborough Concours d’Elegance Dubbed the CF1, this 1953 Corvette restomod was made by Utah-based Kindig-it Design.
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Image Credit: Hillsborough Concours d’Elegance This 1953 Corvette restomod features a custom chassis from the Roadster Shop as its foundation, which is then fit with a 670 hp V-8—from Michigan’s Lingenfelter Performance Engineering—mated to an automatic transmission and complemented by a Borla exhaust setup. Naturally, the entire presentation is dressed in carbon-fiber.
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Image Credit: Hillsborough Concours d’Elegance According to the Hillsborough team, this Mercedes-Benz 300 SL has been the subject of an on-again-off-again restoration spanning two decades and two different owners.
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Image Credit: Hillsborough Concours d’Elegance This is a singular build by Miroslav Jurca, a Renaissance man.
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Image Credit: Hillsborough Concours d’Elegance Although overshadowed when the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Roadster debuted in 1957, the BMW 503 model, designed by Albrecht Graf Goertz, is a droptop that, despite its understated refinement, has a commanding presence that demands a lingering look.
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Image Credit: Hillsborough Concours d’Elegance While only 139 roadsters were produced from 1956 through 1960, just 58 examples of the Series II Cabriolet were made.
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Image Credit: Hillsborough Concours d’Elegance Perhaps no other car embodies the word “maverick” and conjures such an immediate association to its maker than Carroll Shelby’s eponymous Cobra.
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Image Credit: Hillsborough Concours d’Elegance The 1966 example heading to the Hillsborough show lawn, however, is the real deal. Owned by Richard Minton, it remarkably wears the same body, chassis, and power plant that the Shelby team initially sent it out into the world with.
Authors
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Viju Mathew
