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Competition Underway for Invitations to Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance


PEBBLE BEACH, Calif., Nov. 30, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- To car collectors around the globe, it is something akin to Willy Wonka's golden ticket. It is rare and hard to come by?and the competition for it can often be fierce. It is an invitation to show an automobile at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.

The cover of the official entry application folder for the 2018 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance features a 1935 Rolls-Royce Phantom II Continental bodied by Gurney Nutting. The artwork was painted by Tim Layzell. (Courtesy of Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance)

The next Pebble Beach Concours?the top-ranking collector car competition, held annually on the 18th fairway of Pebble Beach Golf Links?won't take place until Sunday, August 26, 2018. But the competition for that elusive golden ticket?the invitation to show an automobile on that long, famed swath of green?is now underway.

Entry applications are being sent to many recent participants. Well-connected restorers and auctioneers, marque historians and experts are also being polled for the whereabouts of specific automotive gems. But anyone with a car they believe is concours-worthy can ask to be considered?and fully a quarter of invitations go each year to cars with owners that have never before shown a car at the Concours.

The receipt of an invitation is not a matter of luck, of course. The selection process is not a lottery; it involves a thorough vetting process.

Hopeful owners often begin by sending a simple description of their car to [email protected]. These submissions are quickly reviewed, and although many owners receive a gentle decline, those with automobiles that merit a more careful and complete look are sent a formal application, which is due in early January.

Each year the Concours agrees to formally vet about 1,000 applications. A Selection Committee of 15 experts led by Concours Chairman Sandra Button spends months researching and sometimes even visiting these cars to ascertain their authenticity and condition. Ultimately, 200 cars are invited to compete at Pebble Beach.

"We want to make certain each car shown here gets its due," says Button. "Regrettably, that means we have to turn away many great cars. Sometimes they deserve to be here, but they don't fit into our features that year; we feel they might shine more brightly another year."

The 2018 Concours will feature Motor Cars of the Raj, Rollston Coachwork, OSCA, Postwar Custom Citroën, Sporting Vintage Cars and Tucker.

For more information and tickets to the Concours, go to www.pebblebeachconcours.net.

 

Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance logo (PRNewsFoto/Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance)

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