The Contemporary Sports Car Class at the 41st Annual Cincinnati Concours d'Elegance featured some spectacular automobiles. This 1968 Lamborghini Islero was the personal car of Ferruccio Lamborghini himself. This won Best in Class at the 2014 Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance.
Only one family has been caretakers of this 1970 Opal GT. These cars were made in Germany and sold in North America at Buick dealerships.
Only 17 short wheel base versions of this 1961 Ferrari 400 Super America were ever built. This car is often considered one of the greatest designs by the famed Batista Farina and his Pininfarina firm.
Only 254 of these 1962 Sunbeam Harrington Le Mans cars were ever built. Fewer than 180 are known to still exist. This one almost didn't, having survived being fully submerged in a flood.
This 1964 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible received a full restoration in 2015. It has won an Antique Automobile Club of American National Senior Award.
The completion of a three year restoration of this 1960 Austen Healey 3000 occurred in 2017. This is a one family car.
An award winner at this year's Amelia Island Festival of Speed, this 1960 Chevy Corvette Convertible had a complete body off restoration in 1993.
With only 401 ever built between 1967 and 1971, this 1969 De Tomaso Mangusta is the only one ever to be factory assembled with a Chevy Corvette engine. It was built for Bill Mitchell, then the VP of design for General Motors.
Here is a 1965 MG B Roadster that had a three year restoration that was complete in 1990. It was originally purchased in California where it was run for all of 87 miles and then stored for 26 years.
Enzo Ferrari famously called the Jaguar E Type the most beautiful car ever made. The car was designed by an aerodynamics engineer and the world had never seen anything like it before. Here are two fantastic examples of the Series 1 E Types. Above is a 1963 convertible version and below is a 1965 fixed head example.
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