A few years have past since I last attended the Greenwich Concours, the annual beauty show for vintage and collector cars. Split over two days, Saturday is focused on sports and performance cars while Sunday is the main competition presenting a broad range of eras and vehicle types. I arrived early Sunday morning to Roger Sherman Baldwin Park in Connecticut and had an hour or so of crowd free time on the lawn thanks to a media pass from Hagerty.

Each edition, there’s a focus a specific mark or model. For Ferrari aficionados like myself, there was plenty of beautiful period correct Pininfarina-designed cars to study. There were half a dozen Dinos lined up in a row. The one that really caught my attention was the 957 Ferrari 250 GT PF Cabriolet, an ultra-rare example with only 39 others built. The hand-built body has elegant proportions and discrete details like the tiny molded in aircraft style tail lights. It deserved a place as the header image of this post.

The Horseless Carriage cars are rarely seen outside of museums and concours events. There were five cars including electric, steam and petrol power built between 1909 and 1912. The artistry and skill in metal fabrication is always impressive to see in person with cars from this era.

The red 1956 Arnolt-Bristol Bolide is one more car I spent time closely looking over. Designed by Bertone, it has the Italian styling house’s signature winged fenders. Sporting a 26 racing number it is another rare model with only 142 total cars ever built. It looked like an aquatic animal that had just emerged from the nearby waters of the Long Island Sound.

Photos and Text: Dave Pinter