Event Coverage: kobus at the 2026 Greenwich Concours

Few people are more qualified to cover the Greenwich Concours than roving BaT contributor @kobus, who has been attending the event every year for quite some time, and even served as the official photographer a few years back. He’s been keeping a busy racing schedule this summer but was still able to make time for this year’s show, and brought back his reflections on the event along with a wonderful collection of images. Enjoy!

May 30–31, 2026—Roger Sherman Baldwin Park, Greenwich, Connecticut

The 2026 Greenwich Concours was a splendid affair. Almost certainly the best year since Hagerty acquired the show from the Wennerstroms in 2019.

This was also the 30th anniversary of the longest-running concours in the Northeast, and again it was stretched out over three days with the tour on Friday, and Saturday’s Concours de Sport followed by Sunday’s Concours d’Elegance.

The two-day concours format works quite well, although I missed the Friday tour as I was off racing the VSCCA’s fantastic Empire Cup at Lime Rock, where I managed to set my best lap time of 1:09 in my Porsche 912.

The “Cars of the Grand Marshal” exhibition honored the work of Paul Russell (above on stage), and a collection of vehicles that he restored was on display all weekend long—truly amazing. Over the years, his work has earned 52 Best of Show ribbons, including four at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, four at Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este, one at The Amelia Concours, and seven at the Cavallino Classic.

Saturday’s Concours de Sport focused on motorsports with 17 delightful classes such as Distinctive Handcrafted Cars, Shooting Brakes, Super Bikes, and Resto Mods, to name just a few.

Here’s Peter Sach with his Concours d’Elegance Best in Show winner, the 1933 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 in which Tazio Nuvolari and Raymond Sommer won the 1933 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Drake Darrin’s 1952 C-Type Jaguar is one of two sent to the USA in 1952 to compete. With John Fitch at the wheel, it won at Watkins Glen and Elkhart Lake in its first two races. Drake’s dad became the third owner in 1956, and it has been in the family since.

This 1925 Grand Prix, owned by Mitch and Wendy Gross of Scarsdale, New York, is the oldest Aston Martin in the USA. It participated in the very first British Grand Prix in 1926, driven by Captain George Eyston. Mitch has raced it at numerous tracks and mentioned that it’s easy to drift due to the brakes only operating the front wheels, while the hand brake operates all four.

Some of my favorite car people were there, including Chuck Schoendorf (top photo, on the left) with his one-off Lancia Aprilia-based beauty, and the Lozano family—Tomas, Julia and Mariano—whom I befriended at the 2019 Greenwich Concours.

Best of Show and Best in the Historic Racers class at the Concours de Sport went to Nick Soprano’s spectacular 1957 Maserati 450S. Of the 10 made, this one had a bigger engine and was driven six times by Carroll Shelby, Jim Hall, and Fangio, who qualified on the pole for the 1958 Cuban Grand Prix.

Bret Sloan of Sloan Motors in Fairfield, Connecticut brought a unique and all-original 1993 Porsche 968 Turbo S—one of 13 built for a failed homologation effort. The powerplant is basically a 3.0-liter 968 bottom end with an eight-valve 944 Turbo top end, and made around 300 horsepower. It was reportedly faster than a 964 Turbo.

Ellen Beck and Bob Gutjahr of Lee, New Hampshire, brought their 1979 Porsche 924 Sebring Special Edition, produced to commemorate the 1979 Sebring race. They first noticed it sitting neglected in a field in 2008 and knew it was a rare model. The car is mostly original apart from rolled front fenders that had to be corrected.

Here are Vera and Santo Spadaro with the Lancia Flaminia Touring Coupe that they grew up with. It was acquired by their dad circa 1982 in a barter deal with Italian-American crooner Sergio Franchi, and it’s been in the family since.

Santo also brought his freshly restored 1935 AFN Frazer-Nash BMW, the first of only 26 produced, which was raced in the 1936 Light Car Club Relay by 4’10” “Speed Queen” Kay Petre. Santo, flanked here by his shop mechanic Gus Llanos Grossberger and his son Bruno, owns Dominick European Car Repair in White Plains, New York—in my opinion the coolest repair shop in the country.