The annual Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este is a prestigious competition for classic and vintage cars, held every May in Italy. The 2023 event was won by an American-owned car! The Best of the Best award went to the 1935 Duesenberg SJ Speedster shown above. The 22-foot-long custom-made Duesenberg was outfitted for the Maharaja of Indore in India. Decades later, it came into the possession of car collector General William Lyon, whose family still has his fleet of rare cars. This car has now become a finalist in the Peninsula Classics Best of the Best Award, a competition between the winners of eight concours events. The Duesenberg is the first American winner since the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este was reorganized in 2002.
Get a better look at this magnificent vehicle at New Atlas, and check out their gallery of 74 pictures from the event. -via Nag on the Lake