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Ever wonder how Monterey Car Week got started?

Torque Media presents a short video about how it began back in 1950

By Larry Edsall

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With automotive historian Rob Manson and Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance chair Sandra Button providing commentary, Torque Media, which produced the livestream coverage of the 2021 concours, has produced a brief minute-and-a-half video showing the roots of what is now Monterey Car Week.

It was back in 1950 that sports cars raced through the new development in the Del Monte Forest on the Monterey Peninsula on Saturday, and on Sunday they returned and were joined by others for a car show.

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Larry Edsall
Larry Edsall
A former daily newspaper sports editor, Larry Edsall spent a dozen years as an editor at AutoWeek magazine before making the transition to writing for the web and becoming the author of more than 15 automotive books. In addition to being founding editor at ClassicCars.com, Larry has written for The New York Times and The Detroit News and was an adjunct honors professor at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.

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