Aside from the Glenmoor Gathering, we can't recall ever attending a world-class concours or car show that had a model car show as part of its program, but the recent Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance hosted a Florida-based group that presented a show for some very special replicas.

Model Motorcars Ltd., operated by Marvin Meit of Plantation, Florida, along with Jorge Ehrenwald of Mexico, drew a far-flung group of eye-popping entries for the Large Scale Model Car Concours d'Elegance. What makes this contest so different is that all entries had to be at least 1/12 scale or bigger. Some were based on the famed 1/8-scale Pocher kits produced in Italy from 1970 to 2000, but most are heavily scratch-built. Marvin's group makes detail parts for Pocher kits, which he said went out of production following a factory fire. One of them is an exquisite carburetor for a 1962 Rolls-Royce Phantom II, handcrafted from 45 pieces.

The car above car is 100 percent scratch-built. It's the J.C. Agajanian-owned Watson roadster that Parnelli Jones used to win the 1963 Indianapolis 500. The builder, North Carolina resident Richard Beggs, told us that he owns no machine tools, and made the castings and body shapes entirely by hand. As a measure of the entries' quality, this stunner runner-upped in the contest.

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