This year’s Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance (officially referred to as The Amelia, now) has crowned its two best in show vehicles. The event has a traditional best in show award for road cars as well as one for race cars called Concours de Sport. The winner of the Concours d’Elegance award went to a 1935 Voisin C-25 Aerodyne, and the Concours de Sport award went to a Le Mans-winning 1964 Ferrari
The reasons for why the Voisin is interesting are obvious just by looking at it. The C-25 line was launched in 1934, and the Aerodyne was one of three variants. Like other Voisins, the Aerodyne featured bold art deco design inside and out. It also had a huge power retractable hardtop that would slide back along the semi-circle roofline. Though Voisin reportedly built more than 10,000 cars through the 1920s and 1930s, fewer than 150 remain, and just 4 of the six C-25 Aerodynes built remain. This one as well as a Pebble Beach-winning example
As for the Ferrari, it’s one mighty scrappy underdog of a race car. That may seem a bit odd to say about a mid-century Ferrari, but this one was not campaigned by the factory. Rather, this one was raced by the North American Race Team (NART), a privateer group started by Luigi Chinetti. And the team managed to win Le Mans
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