Wednesday, June 3, 2009

It was a spectacular evening presented by UBS Financial Services at the Simeone Foundation Museum where guests strolled the expansive museum and enjoyed its world-class display of 65 racing sports cars from the private collection of Dr. Fred Simeone. A special collection of performance cars from the golden era of racing was also curated just for this event.

See photos from the evening.

Guests enjoyed cocktails and dinner amongst the cars, a performance by talented young singer Timmy Kelly, and received a collector's poster from Philadelphia-based and world-renowned automobile photographer Michael Furman that featured a 1956 Jaguar D type racing car

Modern day classics from Jaguar and Land Rover were also on display, courtesy of Automotive Sponsors The Great Britains and Land Rover Jaguar Main Line.

The event was founded in 2003 by Ken Catanella of UBS Financial Services Inc. and was chaired by Frank A. Roccisano of UBS Financial Services Inc. and Michael Smyth of The Great Britains and Jaguar Land Rover Main Line. Dick Vermeil served as Honorary Event Chair, John Colabelli as Journal Chair and Dasha Yermakova as Young Friends' Chair.

CBS 3 Anchors Susan Barnett, Chris May, along with Traffic Reporter Bob Kelly were the evening’s emcees and Maddy and Harvey Rovinsky, owners of Bernie Robbins Fine Jewelers were the event honorees.

Philadelphia Magazine and the Philadelphia Inquirer were Media Partners, Bacardi U.S.A., Inc. and Brown-Forman were the beverage sponsors and Origlio was the beer sponsor.