AACA'S Best of the Best
The Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA) held its annual Grand Nationals from July 22-24 in New Ulm, Minn. The event included AACA’s annual invitation-only Zenith Award competition and its Grand Nationals car show.
The Zenith award is presented to the finest restored vehicle shown at an AACA national event in the previous year. Zenith Award contenders were nominated by the AACA National Awards judging team. The 18 special handpicked vehicles were judged on July 23 for the fifth-annual Zenith Awards in the quest to be dubbed “Restoration of the Year.”
A team of AACA Senior Master judges and four industry guest judges spent a day evaluating all the vehicles for accuracy, precision and authenticity of restoration. Guest judges included Angelo Van Bogart (editor of Old Cars); Stephen Murphy (curator for the Driehaus Collection); Richard Lentinello (publisher of Crankshaft); and Graham Kozak of RM Sotheby’s.
When the team convened after evaluating the field, the 1917 Locomobile 48 Sportif Victoria by Farnham-Nelson owned by John McAlpin of Naples, N.Y., was
