The Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance Founder and Chairman, Bill Warner, was our guest speaker at the Men’s Newcomers Club’s luncheon February 21 at the Fernandina Beach Golf Club.
Bill Warner has been around automobiles his whole life. As a teenager he worked at the local Volkswagen dealership in the parts department. In 1971, he began his relationship with Road & Track Magazine. His photographs and writing have appeared in Road & Track, Car and Driver, Autoweek, and The Atlantic Monthly among others.
In 1975, he teamed with Tom Nehl in a Porsche 911 to finish 14th in the third running of the Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash (AKA The Cannonball run).
In addition to racing, he restores and collects cars. His collection includes a 1957 Cadillac El Dorado Biarritz, a 1958 Cadillac El Dorado Brougham, a 1972 Ferrari 365GTB/4 “Daytona”, a 1952 Muntz Road Jet, a 1971 Porsche 911T (owned since new) to name a few.
In 1996, he founded The Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance near his home of Jacksonville, Florida. The show has raised over $ 2.25 million dollars for many local charitable organizations. His wife of fifty-two years, Jane, has patiently put up with his automotive mania. In June of 2014, Hospice of North East Florida named their new care facility The Jane and Bill Warner Center for Caring, in Fernandina Beach, FL.
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