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When it comes to classic cars, a combination that really fits

Is a winding alpine road and the Automobile Week at St. Moritz.

Now picture: blue sky, snowcapped peaks and shimmering azure lakes

The best that dear old Switzerland has to offer, for goodness sakes.

Think of a fine open roaster running the Bernina Gran Turismo

And the fraternity of jolly aficionados who could ask for more?

Smiths tachometer winding toward the red line

Abarth exhaust pipes growling: this is really fine.

Driver’s hair in the wind, navigator with stopwatch in hand

Up, up and above the tree line ventures this merry band

Proceeding from sharp defile to hairpin curve

One and all driving with prudence, yet with verve.

A reward well and truly at the conclusion of each spirited blast:

Coming together at a table with a view for a gourmet repast.

You think you are at the very pinnacle, but ahead is another lift

There is still the amiable old-timer competition: Super Stick Shift

The colorful names evoke memories and legend nothing surpasses

Lore of the magnificent Julier, Albula, Fluela, and the Stelvio Passes

Up shift, down shift, steering lock to lock, pedal to the metal, up and over

For the driving enthusiast this is like being a mountain goat feasting on clover

Now imagine all this from the perspective of senior, coach-built, sporting metal;

Getting the chance to respond to the urging of a purposeful stab at the pedal.

Vintage, thoroughbred Porsches, Ferraris, Lancias, Fiats and Jags

Feeling like racehorses again not just lazy, cossetted car show nags.

From across the world assemble very, very special cars and drivers

With personal histories glamorous, romantic, sporting… yet diverse

Those who might have propped up their heels and laid back for well-earned rest

Instead allow their coolant to boil, their minds to race: they face the ultimate test

Those especial days, priceless classic cars and peerless drivers will ere remember

Incomparable time spent in the environs of St Moritz at the close of September.

John Kuhn Bleimaier

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