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VINTAGE: 1933 Delage Wins Pebble Beach
Coachbuilt French roadster takes Best of Show prize at 60th annual concours d'elegance.
Media Release  |  Posted August 16, 2010   Pebble Beach, CA
The confetti flies as the 1933 Delage D8S De Villars Roadster is award Best of Show at the 2010 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance. (Photo: Ron Kimball)
A 1933 Delage D8S De Villars Roadster was named Best of Show on Sunday at the 60th annual Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance held Sunday on the 18th fairway of Pebble Beach Golf Links.

Competitors from 33 states and 14 countries brought their prized automotive possessions to the California's Monterey Peninsula for judging in 29 classes. In the end, the white, streamlined 1933 Delage with coachwork from De Villars was judged the best.

Consummate car guy Jay Leno checked out the collection on the 18th fairway before helping to emcee the awards program. (Photo: Ron Kimball)
"This Delage has a short wheelbase that makes it look more rakish, but it still has a long and elegant look," said Concours Chairman Sandra Button. "It did 110 miles-per-hour in its day. It could race and was stunningly beautiful. This car could do it all; it embodied style, speed and comfort."

Delage added the sports version to the D8 range in 1930. To make the S more aerodynamic than its predecessors, a new radiator shell was used that required a special hood and firewall, which made the D8S even more visually distinctive. Patterson's D8S graced the 1933 Salon de Paris at the Grand Palais.

The car was owned during the 1950s by the Grand Hotel Velasquez in Madrid, Spain, and used as transportation for the hotel's more discerning guests. Now it's one of 60 Pebble Beach Concours Best of Show winners.

"There are so many things about this car that are special," said owner Jim Patterson of Louisville, Kentucky, who founded Long John Silver's restaurant and contributed to the founding of the Rally's Hamburger chain. "We've won (with other cars) at a lot of concours, but never here. This win at Pebble is the ultimate; this is the one win that really matters."

Additionally, proceeds from raffles, auctions, sponsorships and ticket sales helped contribute more than $1 million to charity for the fifth consecutive year.

Alfa Romeo in its centennial year was a featured marque at the 2010 Concours, and the Italian cars had the largest presence on the 2010 Pebble Beach show field, including seven vehicles shipped from the Alfa Romeo Museum in Arese, Italy. The 75th anniversary of Jaguar was also featured, as was Pierce-Arrow.

Special classes included a focus on the 50th anniversary of the Ferrari 250 GT SWB Berlinetta, the centennial of the Indianapolis 500, Hot Rod lakesters and Bonneville racers, American Prewar Road and Racing Motorcycles, and Ghia-designed vehicles.

More than 250 cars and motorcycles were present, encompassing more than 100 years of the automobile, with the oldest car on the field being a 1902 Mercedes Simplex. Tonight Show host Jay Leno made a guest appearance, and celebrity attendees included Roger Corman, Jeremy Piven, Erik Estrada and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The Pebble Beach Concours happens every year on the third Sunday in August. Featured marques for the 61st Pebble Beach Concours, slated for Aug. 21, 2011, will include Mercedes-Benz and 100 Years of the Automobile, Stutz Centennial, Ferrari 250 GTO and Italian Motorcycles. Other features will be announced in coming months.

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