As this olelongrooffan mentioned in $kaycog’s post on Friday, I parked up the road from the toney Ritz Carlton hotel there on Amelia Island and hoofed on in to score me an elcheapo admission ticket to get into the Concours D’Elegance and hook up with The Mad_Hungarian. This olelongrooffan, instead of doing a separate post on what seen “In The Parking Lot” edition, I thought I would start off this Amelia Island Weekend Edition of what I saw on that stroll down that unknown street’s name. Since this olelongrooffan was chided by the Chief Blooger during my series of Rolex24 posts to use a vehicle in the first image of a post, Friday it was $kaycog, today it is muthalovin who receives this olelongrooffan’s nod of approval.

But first this olelongrooffan has to say something I have said before. If you are driving at the same speed as the car next to to the right of you on a multi-lane highway, YOU ARE IN THE WRONG F*CKING LANE! (thanks salguod)

After my newish longerroof was parked along that public right of way, I started snapping images of some of the cooler, well at least to this olelongrooffan, cars I spotted.

Attendance at this museum is on my bucket list that’s for damn sure. Not sure what’s up with that yellow X on the bumper guard of this unremembered vehicle.

I thought this vintage 911 was certainly Hooniworthy and grabbed this to share with all y’all. And know this my fellow Hoons, if there was anyway this olelongrooffan could steal that sign for a certain fellow Hoon of ours, it would be on its way to merry old England at this moment.

Interestingly enough, although this olelongrooffan doesn’t really have an interest in owning a Corvette, I’d Hoon one of these any day of the week. But then I also want an Allante.

And I have searched almost endlessly for a touring edition of one of these, in at least fair shape, to no avail.

Hell, I’d even Hoon one of these longroofs. Probably only for a year or so then something else would come across my radar.

And a quick look back at muthalovin’s preferred ride. Yeah, NSX, Bimmer, Corvette, Cyclone, and Mini. Not a bad line up.

So it was just after this olelongrooffan snagged that $25 ticket that I strolled up to check out what was out in front of the hotel proper. Out front was a Mercedes (still not a Merc to me) display showcasing this mint pontoon. One of those would fit in my livery with no problem.

(As an aside, as I am typing this up my friend Kris (see my Truck Thursday post for background) calls and we get to talking about my new truck and she mentions she really wants a Jeep “with no top and no doors.” I laugh and mentioned we could get one for her. She goes on to say we need a house. “2 bedroom, 2 bath with a 4 car garage.” My fellow Hoons, it’s gonna be a fun ride on which this olelongrooffan preparing to embark.)

Parked next to that pontoon was an AMG Mercedes ragtop similar to the one I had seen at the Art of the Automobile show last May here in the World Center of Racing. See that old dude (hell he is probably not more than ten years older than this olelongrooffan) looking up?. He is checking out the low-altitude fly over by a vintage B-25 Mitchell bomber, one of many. (thanks to Hemmings for the ID of that cool old plane.)

Parked next to it was this AMG 6.3 rendition of the gullwing of that persuasion. The G-wagon parked next to it? I just walked on by.

And know this about this olelongrooffan, a Car of The Year award holds no water with me. Unless of course it is the Hooniverse Car Of The Year award.

Just beyond that Lincoln Town Car L shuttle with the driver standing waiting for his passengers was this line up of beautiful automobiles. One is equally as desirable as the next.

First up was this beautiful Bentley Coupe that this olelongrooffan has always lusted after. I mean, there is no luxury coupe from the 50’s that is more desirable to me than this one. Well, at least at this moment.

But then that same statement can be made by this olelongrooffan about this Ferrari ragtop, body by Pininfarina. Incidentally, WordPress thinks that design house’s name is spelled incorrectly.

I didn’t get any closer to this ornsh car than this. The front end says 300 but I didn’t realize one of them was made in anything other than a gullwing or ragtop. IIRC, the “lowly” 190 had merely round headlamps out front.

Last year when this olelongrooffan was down in FantasyLand for TheSmartOne’s high school graduation, I misidentified one of these so I’m just going to leave it at that. This was the least desirable vehicle in that line up. However, if one would mysteriously show up here at The Garage, I’d drive it to every one of my stateside fellow Hoon’s home and give all y’all a ride in it. Hell, I’d even let you drive while this olelongrooffan sat in the back with my jar of Grey Poupon and a sammich. (Lame joke I know, sorry about that.)

But this ragtop ain’t so bad. But I still would rather have the Pininfarina design Ferrari.

 Now,  I have this to say about that. There were so many significant cars at the 18th annual Amelia Island Concours D’Elegance and this olelongrooffan is quite embarrassed I did not realize the significance of many of them. I’ll try and do better next time around.

But this new Mustang spotted off in the distance behind that Maserati? No more than this look from a distance.

After all, The Mad_Hungarian has, unknown to this olelongrooffan, spotted a longroof he knows I will totally lust after.

Gotta go.

Image Copyright Hooniverse 2013/longrooffan