Dana Point Concours d’Élégance

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Jim Alton · #1 Post by **Jim Alton** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 4:45 pm

I'm amazed! It's almost a week after the Porsche 356 Club's Dana Point Concours d’Élégance (Sunday, 13 July 2008) and I've actually developed and scanned film before anybody else posted pictures.

Here are some of my obsolete Fuji Velvia photographs. It may be obsolete and slow, but with film like Velvia 100 I get much more resolution than "35mm sized" digital cameras.

Jim Alton · #2 Post by **Jim Alton** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 4:48 pm

Jim Alton · #3 Post by **Jim Alton** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 4:50 pm

Jim Alton · #4 Post by **Jim Alton** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 4:53 pm

A 1951 Cabriolet (judging by the YOM plate):

Note the red Speedster's reflection in the hubcap:

The Cabriolet reflected in the Speedster's hubcap:

Mark Pribanic · #5 Post by **Mark Pribanic** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 5:38 pm

Jim,
Thank you for taking the time to take pictures, develope them and post them on the site.
I especially like the 1951 Cab. I've not seen it before.

Mark

Jim Alton · #6 Post by **Jim Alton** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 6:13 pm

The 1951 Cabriolet was at Coffee and Cars at Ford Headquarters in Irvine the day before:

Paul Higgins · #7 Post by **Paul Higgins** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 7:02 pm

You refer to this car as a 51 cab but surely a 51 would have a split screen and solid wheels.
I don't believe they had over riders on the bumpers either but I'm not 100% on this.
Whatever it is, its a very nice cab.

Cheers
Paul

Jim Alton · #8 Post by **Jim Alton** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 7:11 pm

It was pretty clearly a very early car.

California requires that cars using a Year of Manufacture (YOM) license plate have the correct year tag for the car's year of manufacture. I've been going by the '51 California license plate. Maybe the Cabriolet was produced in late 1951, maybe the owner took a few liberties with the YOM requirements.

It certainly doesn't look like any expense was spared in that Cabriolet's restoration but maybe a non-split windshield was substituted. I'm less expert on the wheels, but I did check and those are 16 inch wheels.

Aren't those the "export" version bumpers from the "body bumper" era?

Now that I think about it, during the Concours there was probably a card on the windshield with the car's information. I should have checked.

Joe Ruiz · #9 Post by **Joe Ruiz** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 2:37 pm

The blue Cabriolet is actually a 1952 car as you can tell by the STEEL painted door tops in blue as seen through the back window. In a Splitwindshield car, these door top "caps" are made out of hardwood and stained. My '51 Splitcab has a wooden door cap as in the photo below. My '50 coupe is the same also:

Robert Trinkle · #10 Post by **Robert Trinkle** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 12:15 pm

Thanks for posting the pics Jim.
I've been waiting and waiting for someone to post a few shots.
Dummy me, I didn't have my camera at the Concours this year....

JoAnne

Charles Rollins · Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:07 am

Sorry for not catching on to this section. We have posted several sets of photos from the Dana Point Concours. Please visit our web site and scroll down a little to find these photo links. http://www.bench-racing.com/html/news.html

Omar Almada · #12 Post by **Omar Almada** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 4:26 am

Borgward Hornbutton / Petri wheel

That Cab looks like a 1952 model IMO.

John Garrett · #13 Post by **John Garrett** » Sun Sep 14, 2008 2:55 am

I am interested to know the name of the actual color of the blue pre cabriolet? It looks like it is the same colour of the pre A cab in prottyp Hamburg. I am thinking of painting my 55 continental cab that color. thanks John

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