{"id":499468,"date":"2021-10-30T16:45:02","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T23:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=124510"},"modified":"2024-02-15T16:05:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T16:05:41","slug":"chattanooga-motorcar-festival-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/chattanooga-motorcar-festival-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Chattanooga Motorcar Festival (2021) – Recap & Photo Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

When there is an opportunity to spend a long weekend surrounded by interesting automobiles and be able to sleep in your own bed, you have to take it. Such an opportunity presented itself on the weekend of October 15-17, 2021, with the second Chattanooga Motorcar Festival.\u00a0 The first festival was in 2019, but it was the same weekend as the Sports Car Club of America\u2019s national championships \u2013 the Runoffs.\u00a0 I did not sleep in my own bed that weekend.\u00a0 2020 saw the pandemic cause the cancellation of that year\u2019s event, but it allowed quite a bit of thought to go into the planning for this year\u2019s event.\u00a0 The first festival included a display of cars belonging to various local car clubs, a rally, time trial, and concours d\u2019elegance.\u00a0 The car clubs were welcomed again this year, and there was another rally and a concours, but there was also a race and a two-day auction by Mecum.\u00a0 2020 was a much expanded festival that would benefit CHI Memorial Hospital\u2019s Stroke and Neuroscience Center.<\/p>\n

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Additional time to plan meant that the organizers, Brian and Ken DeFoor, were able to attract celebrities, design a race track, create a rally, coordinate with Mecum, and arrange for streets to be closed in the part of town known as West Village.\u00a0 Celebrities included Corky Coker, former owner of Coker Tires, as Grand Marshall; Brian Redman as Grand Ambassador to the Festival; Ken Gross as Concours Director and Event Advisor; and Judy Stropus to attempt to manage us media hacks.\u00a0 Other famous folks who attended the Festival included Justin Bell, Wayne Carini, Tom Cotter (who raced his Cunningham), Lynn St. James, Alain de Cadenet, Ray Evernham, Tanner Foust, David Hobbs, Keith Martin, and Scott Speed.\u00a0 I suspect a lot of autographs were signed during the three days of the Festival.<\/p>\n

Car Clubs<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Local car clubs were invited to display their members\u2019 cars on both Friday and Saturday.\u00a0 Streets in the West Village were closed off from early in the morning until 3:00pm both days.\u00a0 Some of the clubs represented marques and others were multi-marque.\u00a0 Single marque clubs included those for Alfa Romeos, Jaguars, Corvairs, Porsches, and BMWs.\u00a0 The local Southern British Car Club displayed a variety of British cars belonging to their members.\u00a0 Everyone who displayed a car was given a three-day pass to all the Festival events.\u00a0 Comments from those who attended were very positive.<\/p>\n

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Mecum Chattanooga Collector Car Auction<\/strong><\/h2>\n

For two days, 543 cars went across the block with 457 sold for a sales rate of 84%.\u00a0 The top seller was a 2021 Mercedes-Benz G550 Brabus Edition that sold for $302,500.\u00a0 The top ten selling cars in the auction were:<\/p>\n