This Ferrari 458 is custom-painted as the automaker's annual Challenge Art Car. (Photos from NAIAS)
Car buffs with big bucks can aid worthy causes and strut their styles at two North American International Auto Show benefits.
The first was a $500 dinner and silent auction that drew more than 400 people to MGM Grand on Saturday night Saturday night. (Chance Two comes at the black-tie Charity Preview next Friday night at Cobo Center's show site.)
A guest has a virtual reality driving expetrience.
This weekend's foretaste was a showcase for luxury carmakers -- Aston Martin, Bentley, BMW, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati, Porsche, Rolls Royce. C.S. Mott Children's Hospital in Ann Arbor benefited from the $500 tickets and a silent auction of trips and products.
The 10th annual event, organized by the auto show and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, featured a menu overseen on site by celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck of Los Angeles, who posed with starstruck guests (below). His name is on a steakhouse and pizzeria at the Detroit casino hosting the gala.
NAIAS posts these scenes from the six-hour party. Another 52 are here.
-- Alan Stamm
When a partygoer poses alongside Wolfgang Puck, does his assistant chef say "cheese" or "brie?"
We won't dare to say anything about this jacket, nuh-uh. But you can in a comment below.
An overview of the $500-per-person event filling a MGM Grand ballroom.
