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"Among all the events on the auto enthusiast&amp;#039;s calendar, perhaps my favorite is the Goodwood Festival of Speed. This hillclimb on the grounds of Lord Charles March&amp;#039;s family estate stands out from the rest of the world&amp;#039;s automotive gatherings because it isn&amp;#039;t really a race (though the cars are timed going up the hill), it isn&amp;#039;t strictly a vintage event (you&amp;#039;ll see modern cars, including future models wearing camouflage) and it isn&amp;#039;t confined to land transportation (the skies are filled with everything from vintage jet flybys to looping helicopters).   Whatever pushes your hot button, cars, motorsports heroes or celebrities, you&amp;#039;re bound to run across it at Goodwood. There is no event quite like it in the world.   Or at least until now. Last year, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, as part of its effort to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the first 500, held a vintage car show called a Celebration of Automobiles. That program is back and has been expanded to include not only the classics, but also modern performance cars as well as EV, hybrid and fuel-cell vehicles.   Timed with the opening weekend of IMS for the Indy 500, most events will take place on Saturday, May 12. The vintage car show will have two classes for cars built between 1920 and 1970, one for those made by manufacturers who competed at the Speedway and a general open class. The show promises to feature some class winners from the Amelia Island and Pebble Beach concours. And honored cars will take a parade lap around the oval on Sunday, May 13.        Classic cars are artfully arranged in front of the Speedway&amp;#039;s Pagoda.    In addition to the vintage car show, there will be the Automobile Festival, which will be open to current and late model cars grouped by manufacturer in the infield. In addition, there will be displays from aftermarket vendors\u2014kind of like having an auto show and SEMA in one place.   Finally, there is an Emerging Tech Showcase, which features an EV road rally, ride-and-drives by EV and hybrid makers and the Purdue Collegiate evGrand Prix. The event, sponsored by IMS and Purdue University, pits college student teams against one another in electric-powered karts on a course near the IMS Hall of Fame Museum.   Throw in a flyby or two and Indy is on its way to having an event as unique as Goodwood.   Speaking of the Speedway, I had an opportunity recently to visit an amazing motorsports collection owned and curated by Parnelli Jones.   Parnelli is a gracious host and a pretty good docent to boot. The cars themselves, including Jimmy Clark&amp;#039;s 1964 Lotus Indy car, the 1968 STP Turbine piloted by Joe Leonard, and even the 1969 Big Oly Baja-competing Bronco, are remarkable in their own right. But even more important is the fact that he has preserved other artifacts, like the original doors from his Indy garage, a scale model of the Ontario Motor Speedway, a tequila bottle that he used to siphon gas from the VW Bug of some helpful locals that enabled him to finish Baja, and pictures from his early days of battling it out on dirt bullring tracks.        It&amp;#039;s good racers like Parnelli Jones who value history. His unique collection, including artifacts like garage doors from Gasoline Alley, is a gem.    It wasn&amp;#039;t that long ago where the conventional wisdom held that there was nothing older than last year&amp;#039;s race car, to be discarded and replaced by something newer and faster. But Parnelli&amp;#039;s collection in Torrance, California, proves these old cars do matter and are appreciated to this day. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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