The Amelia Island Concours By John Lamm
What hath Warner wrought
Amelia Island is just north of Jacksonville, Florida and come each March Bill Warner turns Amelia’s Ritz Carlton hotel and its grounds into an automotive playground. There are displays, seminars, auctions, shops and wall-to-wall people enjoying it all. A huge cars and coffee covers much of the field on Saturday morning and first thing Sunday morning the concours begins.
One thing that makes Amelia unique is the variety of automobiles. Classic cars, race machines, a Duesenberg here, a Lancia rally car there, BMWs from the museum in Munich, an L-29 Cord to your right and a Richard Petty NASCAR stocker to the left. But let us show you some of that variety.