Radnor Hunt royalty

We’re just coming off our first visit to the Radnor Hunt Concours, and we are profoundly glad we went. Although limited to 100 cars, this very warm event is remarkably all-inclusive, its show field accommodating everything from race cars to the featured marque, Harley-Davidson, accenting its Pennsylvania origins. We’ll have full concours coverage in the Hemmings publications but I wanted to share this photo with you. The location, Radnor Hunt, is exactly that, a private fox-and-hounds hunting preserve that dates to 1883. This first photo shows how the show field includes concours vehicles arranged on stone-walled terraces. Those were originally created for spectator viewing at Radnor Hunt’s other big event, a steeplechase, whose origins can be traced to 1928. The site is in Willistown Township, in lovely Chester County, southwest of Philadelphia.

At the end of the brilliantly sunny day, this utterly gorgeous car had won Best of Show at Radnor Hunt. It’s a 1929 Isotta-Fraschini Tipo 8A with limousine bodywork by Castagna of Milan. The marque and the coachbuilder were long a storied combination among European luxury cars. This is one of the very few Isotta-Fraschinis to have come stateside after the Wall Street collapse erased its American market. The Tipo 8A’s massive straight-eight displaced 7,370cc, or just under 450 cubic inches, producing 110hp. This is the very definition of magnificence. Morton Bullock of Ruxton, Maryland, presented this masterwork of Italy.

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