The Racing Class at Keeneland

The Racing Class at this year's Keeneland Concours d'Elegance was well represented. A fine example is this 1964 Porsche 904 Carrera. This was the first Porsche, racer or street machine, to have a fiberglass body. About 116 were made.

Part of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway's permanent collection is this 1938 Alfa Romeo type 308. When new it raced the European Grand Prix circuit before being sold to Americans where in 1940 it started running in the Indianapolis 500. It placed sixth in 1946, seventh in 1947 and eighth in 1948.

Also from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame Museum is this 1990 Porsche March which represented Porsche's last season racing at Indy Car racing. This is perhaps the lowest racer ever for that circuit. It finished third at the Meadowlands and won the pole at Denver.

The late NASCAR driver Davey Allison raced this 1991 Buick Regal in the Busch series that year. The car started out as a Chevy Lumina but was rebuilt into a Regal at the request of Ford Racing. Don't you just love politics. The best finish that year was a fourth at Bristol.

A past Concours winner, this 1970 Ford Mustang Boss 429 was originally purchased by a Michigan dealership as a drag racer. Doing only a quarter of a mile at a time its easy to see how it only has 7629 original miles. Only 499 of these cars were ever produced.

The Patterson Collection brought in this 1959 Ferrari GT Tour De France. The car got its name not from the famed bicycle race but from a 10 day car endurance race with the same name. A 3.0 liter V12 churning out 256 horse power hurled this down the track. Constructed by Scaglietti based on a Pininfarina design, this car couldn't be any more Ferrari.

During the 1930s this 1930 Bugatti T-35B raced on many of the most famous tracks in Europe, including the Nurnburgring. It also ran at numerous Grand Prix events. Since current owner George Davidson purchased it in 2005 it has undergone a complete rebuild and is now raced in France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, England and at such famed US tracks as Watkins Glen and Laguna Seca.