| Classics from Rhode Island sport their | | | | "The original Concours were inseparable from |
| grandeur at this year's New York | | | | fashion and we're going to be highlighting |
| International Auto Show, which runs through | | | | the marriage between the fashion industry and |
| Sunday. The classic display includes vintage | | | | the coach-building industry by including |
| cars and motorcycles from Rhode Island as | | | | fashions that match the interior of the car |
| well as a hand-built prototype roadster from | | | | from that period," Hurwitz said during the |
| Long Island. Among the vintage vehicles | | | | press preview held last Wednesday. "There |
| displayed were a 1927 Bentley, a 1927 Rolls | | | | will be a number of displays that will be |
| Royce, a 1931 Dusenberg Roadster and a 1950 | | | | significant. This is a high-end, low-key |
| Buick Woody wagon. | | | | Concours." |
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| The display of classics is a promotion of | | | | Hurwitz said the Rolls-Royce, made at the |
| Mark Hurwitz 2008 Newport Concours d'Elegance | | | | Brewster plant in Springfield, Mass., when |
| set for the Memorial Day weekend, with the | | | | the automaker had a manufacturing unit in the |
| public showing of the cars and awards | | | | United States, was a rare Derby Open Tourer |
| scheduled for Monday, May 26, from 10 a.m. to | | | | with scalloped teardrop doors with no handles |
| 4 p.m. at the Oceanside at Belle Mer on Goat | | | | on the outside. Rolls Royce parts are famed |
| Island, according to the Providence Journal. | | | | for their quality and style. "Roadsters |
| The event is Hurwitz third annual Newport | | | | generally had no windows," he said, pointing |
| Concours and is the only one in Newport this | | | | out the long cowl with raked back windshield |
| year. | | | | and second windshield. |
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