The 15th annual Ironstone Concours d'Elegance was held September 25, 2010 at the Ironstone Winery south of Murphy's California in the Sierra foothills/gold country.

Entries included a broad selection of the beautiful and elegant high-performance automobiles known as Chrysler 300's plus the usual array of over 300 Pierce-Arrows, Packards, Lincolns, Cadillacs, T-Birds, Corvettes, Rolls Royces, Model T'sand A's, flatty Fords, English sporty cars, Hudsons, Woodys, Porsches, MercedesBenz' & etc. The Chrysler 300's drew admiring crowds of knowledgeable, sophisticated andappreciative car aficionados all day long. The cars were judged on their intrinsicelegance rather than their degree of perfection.

Chrysler 300's were featured as a special marque for the show, were placed in a class with Cadillac Eldorados and swept all three awards in the class.

Six of the Chryslers belonged to California members of both Chrysler 300 Clubswith the seventh car belonging to a former member of the Chrysler 300 Club, Inc.

The nice group of Chrysler 300's and their owners included:1955 C-300 Coupe-Rich & Ruthanne Barber-Award of Merit






1956 Windsor/300B Clone Convertible-Henry Hopkins-Best in Class







1957 300C Coupe-Jerry “Hemi” & Ruthi Heminger


1959 300E Convertible-Joe & Gayle Hensler




1960 300F Coupe-Richard Palmer


1961 300G Convertible-Bob & Vicki Jasinski-Award of Merit


1962 300H Coupe-Doug & Gwen Warrener

NOTE: The Ironstone Concours d’Elegance management has agreed to makeChrysler 300's an annual category if we can provide enough 300’s.Please keep this meet in mind for late September 2011. We'd love tohave you and your cars attend next year.

The Ironstone Concours d’ Elegance will be held on Saturday,Sept. 24, 2011 at the Ironstone Winery near Murphys California. For more information please visit the Concours d' Elegance website: www.ironstonefoundation.org.

The entry fee covers two breakfasts and two lunches (in air-conditioned
comfort in the winery's huge conference room) and the goody bag included
a split of a tasty vino. Proceeds go to FFA, 4H and agricultural scholarships.