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PRICELESS; Cars, racers and their stories are all part of the Amelia Island Concours.(News)

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Byline: STEVEN COLE SMITH

Overwhelming. That's the problem with the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance, and it always has been. Pause to appreciate one gorgeous, priceless automobile, and you notice that the next one is even more gorgeous, even more priceless. Do this 275 times, and it's dark before you're halfway through.

So after an hour, you're walking right past cars that would otherwise stop you dead in your tracks. Another Ferrari, another Duesenberg, another Hewson Rocket, another . . . we have no idea what that is. Fortunately, they're all nicely labeled.

Located just north of Jacksonville, Florida, on the grounds and the golf course of the oceanfront Ritz-Carlton hotel, this car show-referred to fondly as Amelia-is only 12 years old but ...

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