'2013 Best in Show' at Pebble Beach may have gone to an immaculate 1934 Packard 1108 Twelve Dietrich Convertible Victoria, but if it was up to us, we would have given the gong to the 1955 Lincoln Indianapolis Boano Coupe design study, which, legend has it, was given to Hollywood film star Errol Flynn by his friend Henry Ford II. Orange cars have seldom looked as good (inside and out)

简单地说，2013年加州蒙特雷汽车周是世界上最大和最好的集体活动，如果你想看到全球最独家的经典汽车连续七天聚集在一个地区的话。

由鹅卵石海滩康考斯-现在已经是第63年，并在8月中旬的周日举行-的歌迷们从世界各地来到这里，仔细研究鹅卵石上最优秀的汽车异国情调标本，以及多年来围绕着它涌现的许多卫星事件。

这些活动包括三次大型拍卖会，2013年在蒙特利，一辆在拍卖会上售出的经典汽车的世界纪录价格被一辆1967年的“法拉利275 GTB/4*S NART Spyder”打破，它在RM Auctions以2750万美元的价格售出，而另一辆1997年的迈凯轮F1跑车在Gooding上卖出了850万美元。

不过，尽管发生了这场闹剧，但主要活动仍是在周日清晨，数百辆经典汽车沿着蒙特利半岛南缘卵石海滩高尔夫球场的缓缓山坡行驶，等待着各种类别的评判，同时也瞄准了梦寐以求的“最佳秀”奖。

除了经典，多年来也有少量的新车和概念被披露，通常是一次性的或有限的运行，以符合事件的排他性，一些甚至是全球性的排他性。今年的榜单包括阿斯顿马丁(Aston Martin)、兰博基尼(Lamborghini)、宝马(BMW)和世爵(Spyker)，而宾利(Bentley)甚至在这里推出了新的手提包系列，希望能赢得一些富有这是壁纸在线的盆栽亮点.。

The clean interior of the 1955 Lincoln Indianapolis Boano Coupe

With so many cars to look at in the Pebble Beach grounds alone, we honed in on the more unusual brands and design details at Monterey Car Week. This elegant mascot on the nose of a 1929 8A Floyd-Derham Convertible Sedan made by long-since defunct historic Italian marque Isotta Fraschini was an early delight

Alfa Romeo's design department has a long history of perfectly proportioned car bodies with equally well-executed car graphics. The 1921 Alfa Romeo G1 Race Car is a case in point

Its circular Alfa logo is particularly pleasing to the eye

It's a general rule that convertibles should have extra-strong interiors as they're on show to the outside world when their top drops. The designers behind the 1942 Lincoln Continental Cabriolet clearly had the same thinking, with this dashboard that manages to be both glitzy and classy at the same time

The 1960 Alfa Romeo Superflow IV Pinin Farina Coupe was another outstanding vehicle with its Jetsons-style sliding glass roof courtesy of Italian coach-building royalty Pininfarina

With Ferraris everywhere you turn at Pebble Beach it's hard to get excited by yet another, but this smoothly-bumperless, 1953 Ferrari 250 MM Pinin Farina Berlinetta did catch our eye, accessorised as it was, by some fetching wedge-heeled shoes hanging out of the door

Another incredible classic concept at this year's Pebble Beach was the 1957 BMW 507 Loewy Pichon et Parat Coupe. Turning the conventionally handsome 507 design on its head, acclaimed industrial designer Raymond Loewy added some great surface detail, new modern headlights and an awesome raised cylindrical section to the bonnet...

...out of which sprouts BMW's famous propeller logo

Away from Pebble Beach, slightly inland at another golf course, Quail is an arguably more exclusive event - tickets are an eye-watering $400 for the day and limited to 3000 visitors. Cars are fewer and rarer too. Here motor sport big guns like Michael Schumacher and ex-Ferrari F1 boss Jean Todt mill about without fuss

Quail is the sort of place you find more than one Bugatti at a time, like this rare Le Mans-winning Bugatti 57G 'Tank' racing car up front of a similarly painted modern-day Veyron Grand Sport

Quail isn't just about classic cars either. This 2010 Tavax 2011V motorbike looks to have taken a fair slice of influence from artist HR Giger (most famously behind the film sets for Aliens II)

Indeed, Quail isn't just about classics at all. BMW chose the event to unveil its M4 Coupe Concept, to directly allude to the successor to its old M3 performance car, due to be replaced in 2014

Bentley even used the Monterey Car Week to launch the British luxury brand's first handbag collection at 'The Home of Bentley' - an adapted house near Pebble Beach featuring bespoke Bentley furniture that played host to the global unveil

Aiming to get more well-heeled women interested in the brand - in China 32% of Bentley owners are already women - the high-end Italian-made bags, which feature obligatory quilted innards and other neat details, are limited to only 160 pieces worldwide, and start at £3500 upwards

Back down to earth, Wallpaper* also sampled some burned rubber at the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at the famous Laguna Seca racetrack where old racing cars make a comeback for the day. Aside from catching the burble of the numerous classics trundling past just yards away as they prepare to race - like this quality US muscle car 1969 Ford Mustang Boss - it's also a venue where you can see the cars in the paddocks afterwards and chat to their owners and drivers (not like modern F1, in other words)

This rare 1955 Shannon Crosley, with its aero body and graphically minimal paint job, was a real treat...

... as was watching this superb 1975 BMW 3.0 CSL Coupe race...

... not to mention these classic Porsches

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