Flight Of The Concours

Flight Of The Concours

- Jamie Kitman

I CAN’T SPEAK for all auto scribes, but it seems to me once you’ve been writing long enough, interest in your automotive literary output, adventures, and car news tends to wane among family and friends.

“I’ve just returned from driving D-type Jaguars overland to the Bosphorus with Jackie Stewart, Henry Kissinger, and Linda Vaughn co-driving,” you might apprise a loved one. Only for them to weigh the information thoughtfully and ask, “Have you seen my phone charger?”

It’s one of the reasons that concours make such fine forums for automotive journalists. Like Capitol Hill reporters rubbing shoulders with congressional staffers, car writers find themselves in the presence of many who not only care about cars but who might have actually once read something they’d penned, unlike in, say, the real world.