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class="content__text" ✨ Coming to our show field this August: Vanderbilt Cup Era Race Cars ✨ In 1904, William K. Vanderbilt Jr. decided to host the first truly international races on American soil, so he offered a cup in his own name to the winner of a course laid out on Long Island, New York. The early Vanderbilt Cup Races would continue nearby through 1910, before moving to Georgia, then Wisconsin, and concluding in California in 1916. This class welcomes early Vanderbilt Cup participants as well as other race cars of that era. In the early years, bigger was thought to be better, and some magnificently monstrous vehicles evolved. These were the huge displacement, lower-rpm fire breathers that preceded the smaller, faster-revving, lighter cars that emerged in the 1910s. They debuted the first iteration of the automotive technology that has evolved into the sophisticated cars of today. Click the link in bio for more on our 2023 featured marques and classes ⬆️ #pebblebeachconcours

January 09, 2023