Will we ever see a line-up like this again in our lifetimes? Jaguar pulled out all the stops to bring 12 of the 16 surviving XKSSs together on the fairway at Pebble Beach. Chassis 763, in the foreground, is one of only two XKSSs painted Carmen Red, and is believed to have been the 1957 New York Auto Show car.

Chris Drake’s freshly restored 1952 Bertone show car has been retrospectively dubbed BAT 1, since it prefigured the famous ‘BAT cars’. It won the GT award at Pebble Beach.

Besides the multiple Shelby Mustangs gathered at The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering, was this 1965 GT40 Roadster – the only survivor with correct-type nose and tail.

Italian collector Corrado Lopresto brought a striking double-act to Pebble Beach: matching 1949 (on left) and 1942 Alfa 6C 2500s by Pinin Farina and Bertone, respectively. The Bertone car won the Alfa Centennial class.

Based on Corvette ZR-1 running gear, this 2009 Bertone show-stopper is road registered and, presumably, enjoyed by its Massachusetts-based owner Dan Watkins.

This is the Atlantic that was famously hit by a train on a French level crossing in 1955, allegedly while being driven by the mistress of its owner René Chatard. Rescued from a scrap dealer in the 1960s and restored, chassis 57473 has recently been rebuilt again by Paul Russell and Co, using original parts that were thought unsalvageable back then.

Brought to Pebble Beach by London-based enthusiast Hugh Taylor, this gorgeously patinated Alfa is signwritten as the Don Lee Special, which is how it was entered for the 1946 and ’47 Indy 500s. A genuine Scuderia Ferrari team car, chassis 50002 was sold to the USA in the late ’30s and later spent some time in Australia. It has never been restored.

Popular ‘mover and shaker’ enthusiast Bruce Meyer (in foreground) collected the Dean Batchelor Preservation Award at Pebble Beach for his So-Cal belly tank lakester, which set various speed class records on the salt flats during 1948-’52. Appropriately, it was pushed onto the ramp by Frank and Mary Streff’s recreation of So-Cal’s 1953 Ford F-100 truck.

Even by Monterey Week standards, ‘Captain Mark’ and Babette Sange’s Avia single-seat racing car is a rarity. Built in 1956 for Czech racer Miroslav Jurac by the Avia aircraft and vehicle manufacturer, this tubular-framed, magnesium-alloy panelled car is powered by a 750cc BMW flat-four motorcycle engine, giving it an ultra-low centre of gravity.

Beautiful Touring-bodied ’55 Alfa was restored in just four months.

‘As last raced’ Kurtis 500X special was a 1965 SCCA class winner.

Black-painted wires look perfect on a unique Swiss-bodied Aston.

Powered by a Chrysler Hemi V8, Beast III ran at 238mph in 1952.

First time out for 1929 Speed Six after resto’ with its original body.

Direct drive (no clutch!) 1908 Indian amused when run in situ.