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The car was also competing this year
in the Ferrari Grand Touring class, going up against six other classics built
from 1951 to 1967.
The judges generally favor older,
prewar cars. Until this year, only six
times in 64 years has the award gone
to a car built after 1939. Last year the
top prize was taken by a 1934 Packard 1108 Twelve Dietrich Convertible
Victoria.
Shirley was proud to join the elite
group of winners with postwar cars.
“There’s always a chance,” he said, despite the history of older cars winning.
“It’s great. It’s wonderful.”
The win caps a Ferrari-centric
Monterey Car Week. On Thursday, a

Ferrari GTO sold for $38 million and
became the most expensive car ever
sold at auction. On Saturday, a Ferrari
GTB/C Speciale sold for $26.4 million
to become the fourth most-expensive car ever sold that way.
Said to attract as many as 15,000
spectators each year to the tiny,
tony seaside village, the Concours
d’Elegance also attracts the world’s
most exclusive automakers.
Through an entire week of automotive excess and car-related conspicuous consumption, banners and
booths for Aston Martin, Lamborghini, Maserati, Bentley, McLaren and
other top brands dot the wooded
landscape and line the borders of the

area’s many private golf courses.
Manufacturers use the accumulated population of wealthy car fanciers to unveil new concept cars and
new retail models.
Then, on Sunday, those same
wealthy car fanciers compete for prizes -- an annual ritual at which Leno
has poked fun.
“It’s a wonderful event where a
millionaire can compete with a billionaire -- and win!” Leno said during
a recent interview with The Times.
“Only in America!”
It’s an elegant affair. Men in straw
hats and women in pearls stroll
among the magnificent machines.
Joking about the Concours de-

Jon Shirley won the best of show at the 2014 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance with a 1954 Ferrari 375 MM Scaglietti Coupe

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