2021 Concours d’Elegance of America at St. John’s Survives a Storm
Bookends for Chairman Larry Moss
By Steve Purdy
Shunpiker Productions
Larry Moss deserves a medal of valor for keeping a cool head in the face of adversity saving this important Concours d’Elegance - perhaps the third most prestigious show of its kind in the country - from natural disaster . . . twice.
A serious collector himself, Moss has been in a leadership role with the Meadow Brook Concours d’Elegance, that became the Concours d’Elegance of America at St. John’s, for more than thirty years.
His first year as event chairman,1999, saw a tornado roll through the fully prepared field along the 17th and 18th fairways of the golf course in the shadow of the Meadow Brook mansion. Tents were blown down, signage blown away and torrential rains flooded the fairways. The show was scheduled to open to the public at 10AM the next morning. Larry and his team managed to get the cars onto the course along th
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World-class vehicles on display as Concours d Elegance returns
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Plymouth The Concours d Elegance of America is back after a year of COVID-induced suspension, reuniting car fanatics at the show long known for the oldest and best vintage vehicles around.
Held at The Inn at St. John s in Plymouth, this year s three-day event kicked off Friday.
Keenan Martin of Dexter said he s typically attended the car show annually with his father. Martin was eager to get back to it, he said. Being a car guy, it s hard because you live for summer and then corona hit and we were stuck, he said.