The Lime Rock Vintage Festival held each year over Labor Day weekend truly has to be considered one of the premier vintage sports car events anywhere! There’s something for everybody—three days of exciting racing, a fabulous concours, dozens of automotive vendors, and a large, enthusiastic audience for it all. For the racers, there are other, smaller events that give them more track time, but this is the big one—a real happening—and so they keep on coming back!

For spectators, it’s a special treat. There are so many great cars participating that one can spend all day wandering the paddocks in order to see them all up close. But if you did, you’d miss some great vintage racing! And there was certainly a lot of that, with nine large race groups, each group getting morning and afternoon track sessions on each of the race days. Click here to check out the video clip of some of the action, taken when the track was a tad slick, making for some unexpected excitement!

Labor Day was the main race event, and was also the day of the Italian Car Corral sponsored by Fiat Lancia Unlimited (FLU). Alas, the weather was a bit iffy with some scattered showers about, but it was warm and not at all unpleasant to be there. Around thirty Italian cars of various flavors were in the Corral, including a Fiat X1/9 pulling a trailer made from…the back half of another Fiat X1/9. Protruding from the front of the trailer was a (functioning) beer tap—now that’s flavor…

The Corral provided a great place for us Italian car lovers to convene before heading out to see all the cars and take in the racing action. AONE was well-represented at the Corral, and our thanks go out to Tim Beeble and FLU for organizing this, the tenth annual Italian Car Corral.