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Top honors were split among European and American cars, with Best of Show American going to the 1930 Packard 745 SP Phaeton of Charles and Rhonda Cofer, and Best of Show European taken by the 1937 Mercedes-Benz 540K, owned, restored and maintained by Evergreen Historic Automobiles (above, photo courtesy of the Atlanta Concours).<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s concours welcomed veteran broadcaster Bob Varsha as a special guest of its Decades Club, and featured a gathering of Lozier automobiles as well as cars with Fabulous Fins of the Fifties. The award winners are listed below, and for more information please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlantaconcours.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.atlantaconcours.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Best of Show European<\/strong> \u2013 1937 Mercedes-Benz 540K &#8211; Evergreen Historic Automobiles<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best of Show American<\/strong> \u2013 1930 Packard 745 SP Phaeton \u2013 Cofer Collection<\/p>\n<p><strong>Karen L. Kris \u201cSpirit of the Atlanta Concours Trophy<\/strong> \u2013 1956 Arnott Sports Special 1100<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Class Winners for the 2017 Atlanta Concours d\u2019Elegance<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Brass Era Class One \u2013<\/strong> 1910 Oakland 24 Runabout \u2013 Ronald and Leeann Laird<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brass Era Class Two<\/strong> \u2013 1905 Locomobile Model R \u2013 Evergreen Historic Automobiles<\/p>\n<p><strong>American Production to 1941<\/strong> \u2013 1939 Cadillac Coupe \u2013 David Kantes<\/p>\n<p><strong>American Production 1941 to 1967<\/strong> \u2013 1941 Cadillac 60 Special \u2013 Paul Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Special Packard Class to 1945<\/strong> \u2013 1930 Packard 745 SP Phaeton \u2013 Cofer Collection<\/p>\n<p><strong>American Survivor to 1960<\/strong> \u2013 1955 Chevrolet Sedan \u2013 Millard Choate<\/p>\n<p><strong>American Survivor 1960-\u201967<\/strong> \u2013 1964 Ford Falcon Sprint \u2013 Terry Tallant<\/p>\n<p><strong>European Survivor to 1972<\/strong> \u2013 1947 Delahaye 135 \u2013 Ron Green<\/p>\n<p><strong>American Performance to 1967<\/strong> \u2013 1968 Shelby 500 KR \u2013 Mike Rodgers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Corvette C1 1953-\u201962<\/strong> \u2013 1954 Corvette Convertible \u2013 Mark and Chris Wiley<\/p>\n<p><strong>Corvette C2 1963-\u201967<\/strong> \u2013 1963 Corvette Z06 Coupe \u2013 Kent Hussey<\/p>\n<p><strong>British Sports Cars pre-1960<\/strong> \u2013 1954 Jaguar XK120 \u2013 Ron Shotland<\/p>\n<p><strong>British Sports Cars 1960-\u201967<\/strong> \u2013 1965 Aston Martin DB5 \u2013 Carl and Laurie Clark<\/p>\n<p><strong>British Sports Cars MG to 1967<\/strong> \u2013 1960 MGA \u2013 Tom Bishop<\/p>\n<p><strong>British Sports Cars Austin-Healey<\/strong> \u2013 1956 Austin-Healey 100M \u2013 Peter and Pat Davis<\/p>\n<p><strong>European Sports Cars to 1972<\/strong> \u2013 1957 Dual Ghia \u2013 David Salzman<\/p>\n<p><strong>Porsche Sports cars thru 356<\/strong> \u2013 1965 Porsche 356 Cabriolet \u2013 Tim Lingerfelt<\/p>\n<p><strong>Porsche Sports Cars Air-cooled<\/strong> &#8211; 1966 Porsche 911 \u2013 Chris Carlsen<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Fabulous Fins of the \u201950s and \u201960s<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>General Motors Fab Fins<\/strong> \u2013 1955 Chevrolet Corvette \u2013 Carolyn Sikes<\/p>\n<p><strong>General Motors Fab Fins Cadillac<\/strong> \u2013 1959 Cadillac Series 2 \u2013 John Kennard<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ford Fab Fins<\/strong> \u2013 1963 Ford Thunderbird M Code \u2013 Slug Hefner<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chrysler and other Fins<\/strong> \u2013 1958 DeSoto Firedome \u2013 Brad Jones<\/p>\n<p><strong>Panoz Automobiles<\/strong> \u2013 2006 Panoz Esperante GT \u2013 Kathy Mackerioius<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second Atlanta Concours d\u2019Elegance took place in Georgia last weekend, September 30-October 1, with nearly 180 quality vehicles crowding the lawns of Chateau Elan under the watchful eye of the judges. Top honors were split among European and American cars, with Best of Show American going to the 1930 Packard 745 SP Phaeton of Charles and Rhonda Cofer, and Best of Show European taken by the 1937 Mercedes-Benz 540K, owned, restored and maintained by Evergreen Historic Automobiles (above, photo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":573699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260,17565,73,1978],"tags":[15481,432,16912,75,1985,20744],"class_list":["post-497025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-events","category-concours-events","category-mercedes-benz","category-packard","tag-atlanta-concours","tag-events","tag-events-concours","tag-mercedes-benz","tag-packard","tag-packard-events"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Atlanta Concours d&#039;Elegance (2018) - Mercedes, Packard Top Atlanta Concours II<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/mercedes-packard-top-atlanta-concours-ii\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Atlanta Concours d&#039;Elegance (2018) - Mercedes, Packard Top Atlanta Concours II\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The second Atlanta Concours d\u2019Elegance took place in Georgia last weekend, September 30-October 1, with nearly 180 quality vehicles crowding the lawns of Chateau Elan under the watchful eye of the judges. 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