Just about 30 years ago a fellow named Don Sommer wrote a letter to the folks who manage the beautiful stone mansion called Meadow Brook Hall, home of Matilda Dodge Wilson (widow of auto pioneer John Dodge) and her lumber baron second husband, in the northern suburbs of Detroit. The beautifully restored 110-room Tudor-revival mansion is part of Oakland University and Sommer, a classic car collector and manufacturer of replica hood ornaments, thought it would be the ideal venue for a premier car show to rival Pebble Beach or any other show in the world. The 2007 Meadow Brook Concours d’Elegance, the 29th show, traditionally the first Sunday in August, has become arguably the second most prestigious Concour event in the county, perhaps the world – second only the one in Pebble Beach, California. More than 200 cars, along with a first-ever group of 4-cylinder motorcycles, special exhibits like the “Class of ‘57” honoring cars of that notable year, and a tent-full of the best automotive fine artists in the world will be strewn across the 17th and 18th fairways of the lush Oakland University golf course in the shadow of the mansion. Inside the pavilion will be the dozen or more automotive fine artists to be featured at the Sunday show offering a preview and competing with one another for art show honors. The collector car auction folks from RM Auctions will be on hand Saturday for an all-day sale of wonderful old cars like Packard, Marmon, Rolls Royce and a 1948 Flathead Ford Shreve Special race car. read more
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