Check out the Spectacular Automobiles at Monterey Car Week

The Rolex-sponsored Pebble Beach Tour d’Elegance at Monterey Car Week involves more than 150 of the world’s most exclusive automobiles in a procession along 17-Mile Drive around the peninsula to Big Sur. The weather was near perfect for the annual event held Thursday, and so was the chosen car—a 1956 Bentley S1 Continental drophead with body by Park Ward. The Bentley is one of 58 right drivers; just 31 were built in left-hand drive.

Also taking place during Car Week, the Quail, a Motorsports Gathering, is like no other car show, combining high-end cars—many of them supercars for 2023—with gourmet food stations, dogs, music, and a dress-up day. Held at the Quail Lodge and Golf Club in Carmel, Calif., it was founded by Gordon McCall 20 years ago and, as he told Penta, “a complement to what goes on at Car Week—an event as much about people as about cars.

Ford showed the 2025 Mustang GTD, which will go on sale next year starting at US$300,000. It’s a street car—all carbon fiber except for the aluminum doors—that will help Ford go back to Le Mans in 2024 with the GT3 and try to beat Ferrari once again. The GTD has a track four inches wider than a standard Mustang. It was designed in a “tin shack” off site, and has a targeted 800 horsepower from a supercharged 5.2-liter V-8 engine.

Jim Farley, CEO of Ford, adds that “the tech in it is kind of crazy, but it’s the pinnacle of Mustang.” The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, held at WeatherTech Laguna Seca, is a chance to see cars previously glimpsed only on static display take to the track in anger—more than 400 cars in 14 classes. The noise is deafening and the action intense, as cars from the 1920s forward compete. Ford brought the GTD, and GM celebrated 70 years of the Corvette with a display that included many historic racers—including the 1960 Cunningham team cars that scored the first class win for the brand at Le Mans.

Best in show was the supercharged 1937 Mercedes-Benz 540K Special Roadster belonging to Louisville, Kentucky’s Jim Patterson—and built for Mohammed Zahir Shah, then the king of Afghanistan. A best-in-class winner was Peter and Merle Mullin’s bright red 1939 Delahaye Type 165 Figoni & Falaschi cabriolet that was a New York World’s Fair show car that year. Because the European war broke out, the Delahaye—a glorious Art Deco statement—got separated from its intended engine.

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