The Preview Reception will be held from 6:00pm to 8:00pm on Saturday October 27, 2007 at the Sunbelt Auto Museum. Attendees include Entrants, Honorees, VIP Ticket holders, Celebrities and the Press. This is an opportunity for the introduction of Sponsors and Honorees as well as highlight the various Concours events.
A long held tradition of Concours d’Elegance is the Countryside Tour. Designed to showcase the cars as well as the local countryside, the Countryside Tour is for Entrants only. Press and Concours Honorees will also be invited. Both judged and non-judged Entrants may participate. The tour is self-guided with a pre-arranged route.
Over one hundred years ago in the parks of Paris, the Riviera and other elegant resort towns of Europe, there began a series of automotive exhibitions unlike anything the world had ever seen. The rich and famous of European society gathered to socialize and celebrate the latest automobiles and women’s fashions as unique art forms that graced their stylish lives as much as the homes in which they lived and the banquets and dinner parties they attended. They called these events Concours d’Elegance, a phrase that, when translated, quite literally means ‘competition of excellence’.
