#1916 German Spring Wheel

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1916 German Spring Wheel

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Inspired by Minerva timepieces from the 1950s, Montblanc discovers a hidden box of original Minerva MB M62.00 calibres from 2003. Only 38 movements were discovered in the archives of the Manufacture in Villeret (Jura mountains, Switzerland) and they now equip the new Montblanc Heritage Small Second Limited Edition 38. These timepieces feature all the codes of fine watchmaking with a pure, classic, vintage design. For the first time, this rare limited edition timepiece bears the name of Minerva on the dial in the form of a secret signature, which will only occur this one time, making this a true Heritage timepiece for collectors and watch aficionados.

Montblanc Heritage Small Second Limited Edition 38

The Montblanc Heritage Small Second Limited Edition 38 is a very special timepiece which pays tribute to Minerva’s history with the unveiling of the historical Minerva movement, the manually wound calibre MB M62.00. It is combined with a 39mm stainless steel case, a distinctive lacquered two-tone salmon dial, featuring a Minerva secret signature, and a matching grey Sfumato alligator strap, enhancing the pure classic vintage design.

The historical calibre MB M62.00 was inspired by the Pythagore calibre from 1948 with its very recognizable geometric shape. It was reinterpreted in 2003 with more classical shapes and high-end finishings. The MB M62.00 indicates the hours, minutes and small seconds at 6 o’clock.

The movement features a large balance wheel beating at a low traditional frequency of 18,000 A/h (2.5 hertz), allowing an ample moment of inertia. The regulating organ is equipped with a double adjustment system: Firstly, it includes a hairspring positioning system with a stud that allows the watchmaker to centre the hairspring by moving the entire balance system to the balance cock. Secondly, a hairspring active length regulator index system (raquette), with a swan’s neck spring bearing the Minerva arrow, is positioned on the end. The iconic Minerva arrow can also be found as an engraving on the main plate.

The view of this hand-wound mechanical movement reveals the high level of finishing that demands experience, skill and dexterity. The components, visible or not, are hand-decorated with bevelling, chamfered edges, circular graining on both sides, and grained and polished surfaces. This know-how can be admired on the rhodium-coated, German silver main plate that features circular graining and hand-chamfered edges; on the bridges which are decorated on all sides, bevelled by hand and manually-embellished with Geneva stripes (Côtes de Genève), and also on the wheels which are plated with gold and have faceted arms.

Particular attention has been paid to the dial. Following the codes of the Heritage product line, the timepiece is composed of a refined, two-toned, salmon-coloured dial that has been lacquered for a distinctive aesthetic and domed. Paying tribute to the history of the Manufacture, and for the very first time, a Minerva secret signature has been added between four and five o’clock, making it a very special limited edition. A small second counter with “azuré” (circular guilloché) finishing is set slightly lower than the main dial to provide greater contrast.

Other details include curved Dauphine-shaped hands that follow the domed shape of the dial; black rhodium-coated applied indexes; and Arabic numerals and dots which have all been coated with white Super-LumiNova, a first in the Heritage collection. A precise railway track (minuterie)in blue completes the overall design and provides better readability.

The Montblanc Heritage Small Second Limited Edition 38 comes with a fully polished stainless steel case with curved horns and is adorned with a domed box-shaped sapphire crystal glass with anti-reflective coating and an open sapphire crystal case back, enhancing a special “Historical Minerva movement” engraving. This edition is limited and numbered. Each timepiece is entirely crafted and assembled from A to Z by the same master watchmaker at the Montblanc Manufacture in Villeret, making each timepiece truly unique.

Calibre MB M62.00

Montblanc – A true watchmaker since 1858

Montblanc Villeret’s watchmaking tradition began in 1858 when Charles-Yvan Robert founded the Minerva Manufacture in the Saint-Imier valley.

The Manufacture progressively gained international recognition for its precision timepieces, becoming a leading specialist in the fabrication of professional watches and stopwatches.

Minerva is mostly renowned for its chronograph production throughout the 20thcentury.  In particular, the legendary calibre 19.09 (19 lines / launched in 1909), which was the first to feature the recognizable V-shaped chronograph bridge. Several patents for precision timers were also filed during this period, attesting to the Manufacture’s innovative spirit. For instance, the first production of a 1/100thstopwatch happened in 1916.

In the 1920s, Minerva invented one of the first manually wound monopusher chronographs specially developed for wristwatches, marking a new chapter in the Manufacture’s history.  In addition to the calibre 13.20, the calibre 17.29 was produced during the 1930s and was one of the slimmest monopusher chronographs of the time, measuring a mere 5.6 mm in height.

These developments symbolize the level of mastery and innovation reached by Minerva over the years and consolidate its reputation in the manufacture of monopusher chronographs with various case sizes and complications.

Upholding the Minerva legacy and paying tribute to more than 160 years of fine watchmaking history, these horological achievements have become the inspiration for the development of the new Montblanc timepieces.

Montblanc Heritage Small Second Limited Edition 38

Ident. 124781

Movement:

Calibre MB M62.00

Type of movement:

Manually-wound movement;

Hours – Minutes – Small Second

Dimensions:

Diameter =23,6 mm ;

height = 3.90 mm

Number of components:

162

Number of jewels: 

20

Power Reserve:

Approx. 50 hours

Balance: 

Balance with screws,

diameter = 9.70 mm;

moment of inertia = 15 mgcm²

Frequency: 

18,000 A/h (2.5 Hz)

Hairspring:

Flat and swan’s neck for fine adjustments

Plate:

Rhodium-coated German silver with circular graining on both sides, hand-chamfered edges

Bridges:

Rhodium-coated German silver with “Côtes de Genève”,

circular graining on both sides,

hand-chamfered edges

Going-train:

Gold-coated,

circular grained,

chamfered,

diamond hubs on both sides

Displays:

Hours and minutes from the centre,

small seconds at 6 o’clock

Habillage

Case:

Stainless steel, polished case

Crystal:

Scratch-resistant,

domed box-shaped sapphire crystal with antireflective coating

Back:

Stainless steel with inset pane of sapphire crystal and special “Historical Minerva movement” engraving

Dimensions:

Diameter = 39 mm;

Height = 9.45

Watertightness:

5 bar (50 m)

Crown:

Stainless steel with Montblanc emblem in relief

Dial:

Domed two-toned, salmon-coloured lacquered dial with grained hour ring and sunray finishes,

black rhodium-coated luminescent applied Arabic numerals and dots as indexes,

black rhodium-coated luminescent curved dauphine hour- and minute-hands,

black rhodium-coated small second hand,

historical Montblanc logo at 12 o’clock and Minerva secret signature between 4 and 5 o’clock

Wristband:

Grey Sfumato alligator-skin strap coming from the Richemont Pelletteria in Florence, Italy with stainless steel triple folding clasp

Limited Edition:

38 pieces

Certified by the Montblanc Laboratory Test 500

Montblanc Heritage Small Second Limited Edition 38 – ID 124781 – EUR 17.900

Calibre MB M62.00

Montblanc Heritage Small Second Limited Edition 38 Inspired by Minerva timepieces from the 1950s, Montblanc discovers a hidden box of original Minerva MB M62.00 calibres from 2003.

[eddiejpoplar]

Our Entirely Subjective Guide to the Most Important Good-Weather Automotive Events of the Year

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From the March 2018 issue

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Like hedgehogs and wood frogs, many beloved vehicles go into hibernation in the winter. This garaged slumber protects them from predators such as potholes and road salt and from sliding into ravines, and it allows for the completion of deferred maintenance—or its continued deferral. But in the spring, they are awakened from their respite, flushed with fresh fluids, and driven or shipped to events around the world, where they are venerated, ridiculed, and raced, and generally given the opportunity to break down or crash and remind their owners of the fragility of life, which is a lesson that can’t be learned too often.

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Even if you don’t own a special car, you can still take part in this annual ritual. Just go to an automotive event. Don’t know which ones are best? Well, as in all things automotive, let us be your guide. Here are 20 of the most interesting gatherings of our vehicular tribe in 2018. You don’t have to go to all of them, but you should.

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Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance

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Founded in 1996 as an upstart southern competitor to California’s Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, Amelia Island has grown significantly in size and stature over the past 22 years to the point where the vehicles on display here are as prestigious as those at the world’s top car shows. Because it’s a bit less traditional, Amelia is often more adventurous in its classes and curation, so you’ll see unique concept, coachbuilt, and celebrity cars. And because it takes place on a tiny barrier island off the coast of northeast Florida, it is more self-contained than other such gatherings. Everything occurs at the Ritz-Carlton—auctions, art exhibits, lectures and discussions, sales of ephemera, manufacturer rides and drives, black-tie galas, excessive drinking, and the concours itself. This means less time slogging through traffic and more time ogling beautiful cars. The crowds have grown considerably in recent years, but the location and scale allow the event to maintain a hospitable sense of intimacy and accessibility. - March 9–11 • Amelia Island, FL • ameliaconcours.org

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Radwood at Hooptie-Con

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Don’t miss an opportunity to watch millennials make humiliating errors in appropriating ’80s and ’90s fashion while fetishizing ’80s and ’90s vehicles. A Crapcannes car-film festival, a 24 Hours of LeMons race, and an engine-heat BBQ cookoff cap off the festivities. - March 24 • Sonoma Raceway, Sonoma, CA • radwood.org

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Moab Easter Jeep Safari

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This annual tour is hosted by Red Rock 4-Wheelers and shepherds phalanxes of off-roaders, including the Jeep faithful, along 40 incredible off-road trails. To reward this fanatical brand allegiance, Jeep usually unveils a host of inspired concept vehicles. - March 24–April 1 • Moab, UT • rr4w.com

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Touge California

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This 200-mile rally on the Pacific coast is sponsored by the superb Japanophile publication Japanese Nostalgic Car. Now in its fourth year, the rally celebrates the diversity of collectible Japanese vehicles and the obsessive culture surrounding them. - April TBA • Southern California • japanesenostalgiccar.com

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Luftgekühlt V

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Five years ago, two-time Le Mans–class winner Patrick Long and his friend Howie Idelson decided to put on a car show. As, like just about everyone else, they love air-cooled Porsches, they focused their event on them. They named it “Luftgekühlt” because that word has uniquely complex combinations of consonants and because it happens to mean “air cooled” in German. They then invited cars that represented an obsessive’s history of air-cooled Porsches to the parking lot of an L.A. cycle shop and told friends to stop by. Now in its fifth year, this pop-up show has become the event for Porschephiles but somehow retains its compelling combination of cool congeniality, insider exclusivity, and extremely good taste in Porsches. Celebrities such as Jerry Seinfeld and Patrick Dempsey mix with tuners, artists, brand ambassadors, fanboys, and the kind of hip concessioners usually absent from concourses. Sign up for updates online so you’ll be in the know when this year’s location is revealed. - April 22 • Los Angeles, CA • luftgekuhlt.com

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Syncro Fest

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This off-roading/camping event is the largest gathering of all-wheel-drive Volkswagen Vanagon Syncros (and other Type 2s) in America. Given its timing near May 5, it has also gone by the culturally appropriative and humorous name Syncro de Mayo. - May 3–8 • Hollister, CA • syncrofest.com

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Southern Ohio Forest Rally

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This stretch of forest was once the battleground for a famed rivalry in the ’70s and ’80s but then went out of use for 21 years. The event, now bumped up to 130 stage miles, returned to Rally America’s schedule last year with 76 starters—RA’s biggest run in ’17. - May 18–19 • Chillicothe, OH • southernohioforestrally.com

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Isle of Man TT

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The world’s most dangerous motorcycle race features hundreds of crazed racers careening at more than 200 mph around a 38-mile loop of public roads on this rugged Irish Sea island. Watch amateurs attempt the same thing on “Mad Sunday.” - May 26–June 8 • Isle of Man • iomtt.com

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Toledo Speedway Night of Destruction

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Do you like to see big things being ruined? Ever wish you could witness a field of liveried school buses racing around a figure eight, smashing and flipping until they’re nothing but shard salad? Yeah, us, too. This year, you have two opportunities to catch the carnage. - June 1 and August 17 • Toledo, OH • toledospeedway.com

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24 Hours of Le Mans

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A prestigious and historic endurance race, famous for advanced prototype race cars. But the site also has a concert venue, fairgrounds, and a carnival in the track’s center full of 250,000 drunk, sleep-deprived cavorters. A spectacular spectacle. - June 16–17 • Le Mans, France • lemans.org

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The Broadmoor Pikes Peak International Hill Climb

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This crazed mountaintop race is the second-oldest continuously operating American motorsports event after the Indianapolis 500. With the notable exceptions of the years during which the world wars were being fought plus 1935, it has been held annually since 1916. The Hill Climb is aptly named as it entails racing up a 12.4-mile slog that features not only 156 turns but a gain of nearly one vertical mile of elevation. It ends at the 14,115-foot summit of Pikes Peak, among the tallest in the continental United States. The air is thin at the summit, with 41 percent less oxygen than at sea level, so drivers and their vehicles have to work harder to maintain power, speed, and focus. Cars, trucks, motorcycles, and quads all participate. In fact, unlike most sanctioned races, there are no limits on the type of vehicle that can enter; drivers have made the climb in overpowered semis and homemade EVs. Gravel sections used to add to the course’s harrowing nature, but since 2011, for better or worse, the entire route has been paved. - June 24 • Colorado Springs, CO • ppihc.org

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EyesOn Design

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A carefully curated, 200-plus-vehicle celebration of ideal automotive design held at the lakefront home of Edsel Ford, whose name is ironically and unfairly synonymous with ghastly automotive design. - June 17 • Grosse Pointe Shores, MI • eyesondesign.org

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Goodwood Festival of Speed

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The 26th edition of the world’s greatest automotive garden party. Held on the posh estate of the Duke of Richmond, the centerpiece is a balls-out hill-climb up the Duke’s driveway in everything from monster trucks to Formula 1 race cars. - July 12–15 • West Sussex, England • goodwood.com

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Van Nationals

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There is nothing shady about a van. Belief in this mantra, and little else, will unite some 600 vans and their drivers and occupants for “five days of hanging loose” in an area of Indiana that must be a minimum of 500 feet away from any school. - July 25–29 • Rensselaer, IN • van-nationals.com

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Bonneville Speed Week

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For more than a century, the salt flats around Bonneville, once measuring 96,000 acres but now only 30,000, have been the premier location in the human quest for maximum vehicular velocity. Bring sunscreen but leave your margarita rim jokes at home. - August 11–17 • Bonneville Salt Flats, UT • scta-bni.org

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Monterey Car Week

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The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance has been wowing car lovers since 1950. In the intervening seven decades, the event has developed from a small sports-car show and race into a weeklong car-and-lifestyle bacchanal that blankets the Monterey Peninsula in plumes of blue smoke and champagne spume. The actual concours is a must-see, and the ancillary events are more than worthwhile. Concorso Italiano showcases vintage Italian cars, with rows of overheating De Tomasos and Lancias. Legends of the Autobahn does the same for the Germans, but with less wasted fluids. The Quail is an exercise in elite excess for the oligarchic and overrestored—cars and humans alike. The Concours d’LeMons revives beloved and maligned baroque vehicles, mostly from the ’70s and ’80s. Auctions from Bonhams, Gooding, and RM Sotheby’s feature record-setting, eight-figure classics. But our favorite show comes with admission to the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at Laguna Seca: the chance to wander around the paddock and see, hear, smell, and feel vintage cars of every era starting up, revving, running, and racing. - August 17–26 • Monterey, CA • pebblebeachconcours.net

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Woodward Dream Cruise

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An amorphous automotive takeover of a 20-mile stretch of the first paved road in Detroit and America. If you enjoy the sound of Hemis, Clevelands, and small-blocks sitting in traffic, the Dream Cruise is for you. Prepare for full-on idle worship. - August 18 • Ferndale, MI, to Pontiac, MI • woodwarddreamcruise.com

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NHRA U.S. Nationals

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Drag racing is one of the seven wonders of the profligate world. This final race of the National Hot Rod Association’s regular season is where drivers make last-ditch efforts to qualify for the championship playoffs and to wow deafened, fume-dizzied crowds with displays of speed greater than 300 mph. Attendees are as much victims of assault as they are spectators. - August 29–September 3 • Indianapolis, IN • nhra.com

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Orphan Car Show

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Our Entirely Subjective Guide to the Most Important Good-Weather Automotive Events of the Year

-

From the March 2018 issue

-

Like hedgehogs and wood frogs, many beloved vehicles go into hibernation in the winter. This garaged slumber protects them from predators such as potholes and road salt and from sliding into ravines, and it allows for the completion of deferred maintenance—or its continued deferral. But in the spring, they are awakened from their respite, flushed with fresh fluids, and driven or shipped to events around the world, where they are venerated, ridiculed, and raced, and generally given the opportunity to break down or crash and remind their owners of the fragility of life, which is a lesson that can’t be learned too often.

-

Even if you don’t own a special car, you can still take part in this annual ritual. Just go to an automotive event. Don’t know which ones are best? Well, as in all things automotive, let us be your guide. Here are 20 of the most interesting gatherings of our vehicular tribe in 2018. You don’t have to go to all of them, but you should.

-

-

-

Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance

-

Founded in 1996 as an upstart southern competitor to California’s Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, Amelia Island has grown significantly in size and stature over the past 22 years to the point where the vehicles on display here are as prestigious as those at the world’s top car shows. Because it’s a bit less traditional, Amelia is often more adventurous in its classes and curation, so you’ll see unique concept, coachbuilt, and celebrity cars. And because it takes place on a tiny barrier island off the coast of northeast Florida, it is more self-contained than other such gatherings. Everything occurs at the Ritz-Carlton—auctions, art exhibits, lectures and discussions, sales of ephemera, manufacturer rides and drives, black-tie galas, excessive drinking, and the concours itself. This means less time slogging through traffic and more time ogling beautiful cars. The crowds have grown considerably in recent years, but the location and scale allow the event to maintain a hospitable sense of intimacy and accessibility. - March 9–11 • Amelia Island, FL • ameliaconcours.org

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Radwood at Hooptie-Con

-

Don’t miss an opportunity to watch millennials make humiliating errors in appropriating ’80s and ’90s fashion while fetishizing ’80s and ’90s vehicles. A Crapcannes car-film festival, a 24 Hours of LeMons race, and an engine-heat BBQ cookoff cap off the festivities. - March 24 • Sonoma Raceway, Sonoma, CA • radwood.org

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Moab Easter Jeep Safari

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This annual tour is hosted by Red Rock 4-Wheelers and shepherds phalanxes of off-roaders, including the Jeep faithful, along 40 incredible off-road trails. To reward this fanatical brand allegiance, Jeep usually unveils a host of inspired concept vehicles. - March 24–April 1 • Moab, UT • rr4w.com

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Touge California

-

This 200-mile rally on the Pacific coast is sponsored by the superb Japanophile publication Japanese Nostalgic Car. Now in its fourth year, the rally celebrates the diversity of collectible Japanese vehicles and the obsessive culture surrounding them. - April TBA • Southern California • japanesenostalgiccar.com

-

-

Luftgekühlt V

-

Five years ago, two-time Le Mans–class winner Patrick Long and his friend Howie Idelson decided to put on a car show. As, like just about everyone else, they love air-cooled Porsches, they focused their event on them. They named it “Luftgekühlt” because that word has uniquely complex combinations of consonants and because it happens to mean “air cooled” in German. They then invited cars that represented an obsessive’s history of air-cooled Porsches to the parking lot of an L.A. cycle shop and told friends to stop by. Now in its fifth year, this pop-up show has become the event for Porschephiles but somehow retains its compelling combination of cool congeniality, insider exclusivity, and extremely good taste in Porsches. Celebrities such as Jerry Seinfeld and Patrick Dempsey mix with tuners, artists, brand ambassadors, fanboys, and the kind of hip concessioners usually absent from concourses. Sign up for updates online so you’ll be in the know when this year’s location is revealed. - April 22 • Los Angeles, CA • luftgekuhlt.com

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Syncro Fest

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This off-roading/camping event is the largest gathering of all-wheel-drive Volkswagen Vanagon Syncros (and other Type 2s) in America. Given its timing near May 5, it has also gone by the culturally appropriative and humorous name Syncro de Mayo. - May 3–8 • Hollister, CA • syncrofest.com

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Southern Ohio Forest Rally

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This stretch of forest was once the battleground for a famed rivalry in the ’70s and ’80s but then went out of use for 21 years. The event, now bumped up to 130 stage miles, returned to Rally America’s schedule last year with 76 starters—RA’s biggest run in ’17. - May 18–19 • Chillicothe, OH • southernohioforestrally.com

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Isle of Man TT

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The world’s most dangerous motorcycle race features hundreds of crazed racers careening at more than 200 mph around a 38-mile loop of public roads on this rugged Irish Sea island. Watch amateurs attempt the same thing on “Mad Sunday.” - May 26–June 8 • Isle of Man • iomtt.com

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Toledo Speedway Night of Destruction

-

Do you like to see big things being ruined? Ever wish you could witness a field of liveried school buses racing around a figure eight, smashing and flipping until they’re nothing but shard salad? Yeah, us, too. This year, you have two opportunities to catch the carnage. - June 1 and August 17 • Toledo, OH • toledospeedway.com

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24 Hours of Le Mans

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A prestigious and historic endurance race, famous for advanced prototype race cars. But the site also has a concert venue, fairgrounds, and a carnival in the track’s center full of 250,000 drunk, sleep-deprived cavorters. A spectacular spectacle. - June 16–17 • Le Mans, France • lemans.org

-

-

The Broadmoor Pikes Peak International Hill Climb

-

This crazed mountaintop race is the second-oldest continuously operating American motorsports event after the Indianapolis 500. With the notable exceptions of the years during which the world wars were being fought plus 1935, it has been held annually since 1916. The Hill Climb is aptly named as it entails racing up a 12.4-mile slog that features not only 156 turns but a gain of nearly one vertical mile of elevation. It ends at the 14,115-foot summit of Pikes Peak, among the tallest in the continental United States. The air is thin at the summit, with 41 percent less oxygen than at sea level, so drivers and their vehicles have to work harder to maintain power, speed, and focus. Cars, trucks, motorcycles, and quads all participate. In fact, unlike most sanctioned races, there are no limits on the type of vehicle that can enter; drivers have made the climb in overpowered semis and homemade EVs. Gravel sections used to add to the course’s harrowing nature, but since 2011, for better or worse, the entire route has been paved. - June 24 • Colorado Springs, CO • ppihc.org

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EyesOn Design

-

A carefully curated, 200-plus-vehicle celebration of ideal automotive design held at the lakefront home of Edsel Ford, whose name is ironically and unfairly synonymous with ghastly automotive design. - June 17 • Grosse Pointe Shores, MI • eyesondesign.org

-

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Goodwood Festival of Speed

-

The 26th edition of the world’s greatest automotive garden party. Held on the posh estate of the Duke of Richmond, the centerpiece is a balls-out hill-climb up the Duke’s driveway in everything from monster trucks to Formula 1 race cars. - July 12–15 • West Sussex, England • goodwood.com

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Van Nationals

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There is nothing shady about a van. Belief in this mantra, and little else, will unite some 600 vans and their drivers and occupants for “five days of hanging loose” in an area of Indiana that must be a minimum of 500 feet away from any school. - July 25–29 • Rensselaer, IN • van-nationals.com

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Bonneville Speed Week

-

For more than a century, the salt flats around Bonneville, once measuring 96,000 acres but now only 30,000, have been the premier location in the human quest for maximum vehicular velocity. Bring sunscreen but leave your margarita rim jokes at home. - August 11–17 • Bonneville Salt Flats, UT • scta-bni.org

-

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Monterey Car Week

-

The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance has been wowing car lovers since 1950. In the intervening seven decades, the event has developed from a small sports-car show and race into a weeklong car-and-lifestyle bacchanal that blankets the Monterey Peninsula in plumes of blue smoke and champagne spume. The actual concours is a must-see, and the ancillary events are more than worthwhile. Concorso Italiano showcases vintage Italian cars, with rows of overheating De Tomasos and Lancias. Legends of the Autobahn does the same for the Germans, but with less wasted fluids. The Quail is an exercise in elite excess for the oligarchic and overrestored—cars and humans alike. The Concours d’LeMons revives beloved and maligned baroque vehicles, mostly from the ’70s and ’80s. Auctions from Bonhams, Gooding, and RM Sotheby’s feature record-setting, eight-figure classics. But our favorite show comes with admission to the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at Laguna Seca: the chance to wander around the paddock and see, hear, smell, and feel vintage cars of every era starting up, revving, running, and racing. - August 17–26 • Monterey, CA • pebblebeachconcours.net

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Woodward Dream Cruise

-

An amorphous automotive takeover of a 20-mile stretch of the first paved road in Detroit and America. If you enjoy the sound of Hemis, Clevelands, and small-blocks sitting in traffic, the Dream Cruise is for you. Prepare for full-on idle worship. - August 18 • Ferndale, MI, to Pontiac, MI • woodwarddreamcruise.com

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NHRA U.S. Nationals

-

Drag racing is one of the seven wonders of the profligate world. This final race of the National Hot Rod Association’s regular season is where drivers make last-ditch efforts to qualify for the championship playoffs and to wow deafened, fume-dizzied crowds with displays of speed greater than 300 mph. Attendees are as much victims of assault as they are spectators. - August 29–September 3 • Indianapolis, IN • nhra.com

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Orphan Car Show

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