Part 1 in a series. More to come: judging explained, meet a perfect concours car, and discover what it’s like to show a car at Monterey.
“If you’re inviting everybody to come and bring what they have, that’s a car show,” explains Bill Warner, creator of The Amelia. A concours, he stresses, is different: “Each car on that field …
This is a great article and looking forward to part 2.
I would take exception with the Bill Warner quote "A Datsun is a common car"
From 1960 to 1970 Datsun produced 40,000 roadsters, where as Porsche produced 80,000 356's. Of the 40,000 Datsun Roadsters produced, perhaps as few as 5% remain today...(hardly common). Those Porsche's- it is thought as many as 60% are still around.
I can trip over several Porsche 356's at any local Cars and Coffee, but a Datsun Roadster- and one that has been highly restored...a unicorn.
There is a shifting demographic in the Classic Car hobby and the above quote is obviously of an older generation.
An enlightened Concours show curator would recognize this (hopefully)
I attended Amelia this year--the first Concours this 73 YO has attended in my life--and I didn't really understand why the cars there had been selected until I read this article.
It still feels to me that the whole concours judging is the car enthusiast's version of classical music today. The people in charge are very rich and snooty, and there's not much room for all of us who have spent our lives enjoying cars but are left out.
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