Monterey 2021 The Pebble Beach Tour de Elegance After being deprived of the glorious Monterey pilgrimage for a full two years, the crowd that arrived last August seemed ecstatic to…
Monterey 2018 – Street Scene
Monterey 2018 Street Scene While the crackling mob of super/hyper cars that attacked the streets during Monterey’s fantastic Car Week garnered most of the cell phone attention, those with keen…
Pebble Beach 2017: Mercedes-Benz Best of Show
Pebble Beach 2017 Barker Body Mercedes ‘S’ Triumphs Watching the vastly diverse queue of breathtaking vintage motorcars slowly work its way past the Del Monte Lodge toward the final plunge…
June 1968: The 300SEL 6.3 debuts in Monterey
Laguna Seca June 27, 1968 New $14,000 300SEL 6.3 debuts in California Legend has it that sometime in 1966 Mercedes engineer, Erich Waxenberger, hatched a plan whereby he would install…
Monterey 2016 Overview
Scenes from Monterey 2016 Mercedes-Benz and beyond August 2016 Let’s widen our Monterey perspective a bit and savor some of the other action that occurred during that jammed week in…
MB Classic Center Monterey 2016
Classic Center looks back…and forward Stunning Maybach 6 debuts August 2016 While strolling up the stairs to the Classic Center’s airy pavilion Saturday afternoon I felt an unusual buzz about…
Monterey 2015: Lasting impressions
The Life Cycle of Pebble Beach A look back by Robert Lettieri August 2015 The cycle of renewal for Pebble 2016 begins after the bags are packed and the reservations…
Monterey 2013: MB Classic Center
Mercedes-Benz Classic Center First class S-Class display August 2013 Our friends at the Mercedes-Benz Classic Center again dazzled with their Pebble Beach pavilion during August’s Monterey Week. With the Monterey…
Mercedes-Benz at Pebble Beach 2012
Pebble Beach 2012 Mercedes-Benz on the lawn August 2012 You would be excused for thinking everything was under control as you looked over the rows of impeccably finished automobiles resting…
Mercedes Classic Center Monterey 2012
Mercedes Classic 2012 Unique 300SLs featured August 2012 I occasionally ponder the most valuable 300SL extant. We’ve heard some extraordinary numbers this year and January’s Gooding & Co $4.6m sale…
Legends of the Autobahn 2011
Legends Returns Friday August 19, 2011 Rancho Canada Golf Club, Carmel Valley Gaining attention for a new event during the typically exhausting August Monterey week is an uphill battle. Event…