{"id":74556,"date":"2020-08-18T11:54:16","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T18:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=74556"},"modified":"2020-08-18T11:54:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T18:54:16","slug":"a-1937-horch-853-sports-cabriolet-named-best-of-show-for-petersen-concours-delegance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/a-1937-horch-853-sports-cabriolet-named-best-of-show-for-petersen-concours-delegance\/","title":{"rendered":"A 1937 Horch 853 Sports Cabriolet Named Best of Show for Petersen Concours D&#8217;Elegance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"74557\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/a-1937-horch-853-sports-cabriolet-named-best-of-show-for-petersen-concours-delegance\/unnamed-2-23\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/unnamed-2-e1597776533831.png\" data-orig-size=\"640,348\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"unnamed (2)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/unnamed-2-300x163.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/unnamed-2-1024x556.png\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-74557 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/unnamed-2-e1597776533831.png\" alt=\"1937 Horch 853 Sports Cabriolet\" width=\"640\" height=\"348\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A 1937 Horch 853 Sports Cabriolet, owned by Aaron Weiss, was awarded Best of Show out of more than 100 accepted entrants today during the Petersen Concours d\u2019Elegance. The virtual Concours marked the final day of Petersen Car Week Presented by Michelin, the Petersen Automotive Museum\u2019s digital compilation of the Monterey Car Week events. More than 20,000 viewers tuned in to the museum\u2019s YouTube channel to watch the culminating awards ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>The Concours also featured several other classes, including Competition, American, European Classic, Ferrari Touring, Hot Rod, Movies\/TV Screen Used, Special Significance, Post-War Preservation, Post-War Sports, and Post-War Touring. Vehicles were judged by a panel of motorsports legends, collectors, and industry leaders.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the Concours, the final day featured the unveiling of a new Ford GT variant, as well as garage tours from collectors David Lee, Peter Mullin, Dennis Varni, and Doug DeMuro.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough we could not gather in person this year, we couldn\u2019t have hoped for a better digital event to share our automotive passion,\u201d said Petersen Executive Director Terry L. Karges. \u201cFrom the supportive fans to the incredible partners and participants, our shared love for the automobile helped make Petersen Car Week possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Petersen Car Week Presented by Michelin took place from August 12\u201316, 2020. The week-long event delivered more than 25 hours of original content from manufacturers, collectors, enthusiast events, and auction houses, which premiered exclusively on the Petersen\u2019s YouTube channel.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>A 1937 Horch 853 Sports Cabriolet, owned by Aaron Weiss, was awarded Best of Show out of more than 100 accepted entrants today during the Petersen Concours d\u2019Elegance.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":74557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1082,3470,22],"tags":[7990,505,41,324],"class_list":["post-74556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","category-news","category-event-coverage","tag-937-horch-853-sports-cabriole","tag-concours-delegance","tag-news","tag-petersen-automotive-museum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/unnamed-2-e1597776533831.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-jow","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74559,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74556\/revisions\/74559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}