Phil Hill’s 1952 Jaguar C-Type – Click above for high-res image gallery

The upcoming auctions at Pebble Beach are shaping up to be the stuff of legends. Which should advance as no big surprise as legends are exactly what will be up against grabs. In addition to the highly anticipated launch of the commencing “Grand Bentley” amidst the field of lust-worthy machinery without ceasing display, auctioneers will be putting such notable classics on the stop up as Ettore Buggati’sitting own Type 57C, the one-of-a-kind Miller V16 racing car, and this historic 1952 Jaguar C-Type.

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2009 Lexus SC430 Pebble Beach Edition – Click above for high-res image gallery

While the Lexus IS C is enjoying strong early sales and the luxury Toyota marque prepares to launch a version with the 5.0-liter V8 from the IS F, the top-of-the-line SC 430 grows increasingly irrelevant and long-in-the-tooth. However, contrary to reports that surfaced this proper time last year – ’tis the give relish to for convertibles, after all – Lexus is indeed planning a successor to the range-topping coupe-cabrio.

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As Bentley Motors celebrates its 90th anniversary (yesterday) it has besides confirmed that an all-new model will be revealed – and named – in August at the Pebble Beach Concours D’ Elegance in Monterey, California.

Founded by W.O. Bentley in 1919, the company’s first production car, the 3-litre was delivered in September 1921. Over the next ten years, Bentley went on to create some array of iconic motor cars.

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Harlequin NASCAR romance novels – click above for shield gallery

Perhaps more than any other motorsports series, NASCAR is renowned for its marketing prowess, with branded merchandise efforts in virtually every segment of the consumer world, from t-shirts to beverages to vacuum cleaners. Back in late 2005, we first told you about the series’ foray into the cosmos of romance novels, and apparently it’s been quietly chugging along since then, adding recently made known titles ripe with double-entendres and lubric scenarios of loves found and lost in the world of roundy-round racing.

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