All-Americana was so Compelling, Even the Rain Showed-up, twice.
Check-out the photos, and take a look back at Saturday's gathering at Motor District, headlined by a Targa Florio Cobra.
All-Americana filled Motor District with American icons and the people who keep them running, and neither passing shower did much to thin the crowd. That says something about this community. A little weather is no match for a good afternoon among great cars.
The field spanned the whole arc of American performance, but one car drew a steady circle around it all day. Gary Bartlett's 1965 Shelby 427 Competition Cobra, CSX3019, is the rare machine that's remarkable both for what it is and for where it's been. One of nineteen 427 Competition Cobras built, and one of just four with dry sump lubrication. Its first owner raced it across Europe through the 1966 season, including the Targa Florio, Spa, and the Nürburgring. After decades in the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu, Bartlett tracked down the owner, bought the car in 2022, and restored it to its 1966 Targa Florio specification. The team he assembled across the UK and the US earned Restorer of the Year at the Historic Motoring Awards in London for the work. Seeing it in Westfield, in the open air, was something.
A special thanks goes to Scott Holley and the Holley Motorsports team, who rolled out an exceptional array of Superformance legends. Officially licensed continuation cars, including GT40s, FIA Cobras, and Shelby continuations, the kind of machines that put the golden age of American road racing right in front of you. Together they made for one of the most talked-about displays on the field.
T-Fiber brought their gorgeous Lightspeed GT3. And the broader Indianapolis automotive community turned out with the kind of cars that have defined and redefined American heritage, style, and performance for a hundred years.
Our thanks also go to Jay Farmer and the Motor District team for continuing to provide an exceptional facility for specialty automotive events, and to the Motor District owners for opening their private garages. That look inside is an aspirational one, a glimpse of what's possible, and it's part of what makes this campus unlike anywhere else we gather.
To Autogeek for lending their car care expertise, and to every owner who brought a car and shared it, thank you.
These machines matter because people care for them and put them where the rest of us can see them. Saturday was proof of that. Rain included.
A final thanks to Michael Wilson, whose photographs captured the day better than words can. Take a look at his images from All-Americana at the bottom of this post.
