Proposed  Concours  Classes  and  Exhibitions

Confirmed  and  Proposed
Concours  Classes,  Events  and  Exhibitions

Confirmed  Classes  For  2024

Barnfinds  Class
Hilton Head Concours d’Elegance
Debut: 1949 Packard Monte Carlo by Richard Arbib
October 31-November 3, 2024

American Sports Customs – America’s Boulevard Cruisers
Postwar late 40s and 1950s
Chattanooga Motor Festival
October 11-13, 2024

Confirmed  Classes  For  2025

Streamlined Race Cars: Streamlined Speed
Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance: March 2025

Streamlined Passenger Cars: Streamlined Dreams
Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance: March 2025

Additional Cars On The Field: Various Classes
Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance: March 2025

Confirmed  Museum  Exhibits  For  2025

Fabulous Fiberglass: Handcrafted Cars of the 1960s and 1970s
Savoy Museum: Georgia – March 4th, 2025 to July 13th, 2025

Proposed  Classes  For  2025

Wedge Cars
Guy Dirkin, Gautam, Ken?
No Forum
Shark Roadster too – separate class
Audrain use of Forum too?
Miami Motorcar Calvacade:  February, 2025

Teardrops and Bubbletops
Pre and Postwar
Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance:  August 2025

Beach Cars: Renault Jolly, Fiat Jolly, Fiat Shallette, VW Aculpco Thing, Jeep Gala Surrey, Ferrari by Felber (Ferrari Beach Car)
Leslie Kendall, Ken Gross, Geoff Hacker

Proposed  Classes  For  2026

Kaiser Frazer / Darrin – Featuring Darrin Designs
1953 Show Dragon
1954 Dragon – Factory (blue and black)
1951 Kaiser el Camino
1953 Dragon (Tim’s)
1955 Frazer Custom
1955 Kaiser 2 door supercharged – last year built
Cars and Customs: 1955 Frazer Custom, 1953 Gisler Henry J
Tim Masters Kaiser Debonnaire

Custom 50s and 60s Corvettes
Work With Kevin Bennett

Cars of the Concours
Savoy Automobile Museum
Curator: Bill Warner

Fabulous Fiberglass: Handcrafted Cars of the 1960s and 1970s
An extension of our Savoy exhibit in 2025

Space Age Cars and Bubble Tops / Future Cars”‘
Event?

H-Mod Race Cars With Richard Campbell

Possible  Future  Classes – Strongest  Contenders
Pebble, Amelia, Greenwich, Hilton Head, Audrain
These Can Be Developed For Review

Custom Miatas
Work With Jim Simpson

Singers – 1930s to 1950s
Greenwich, Connecticutt

Cars of the ArtCenter
Students, Instructors and More:  1946-1970
Ken Gross, Stewart Reed, Geoff Hacker

Yesterday’s Tomorrows
Future Cars From the Past

Bathtubs
Nash, Packard, Hudson and More
Thunderbolt as a “pre-bathtub”
Paul Sable, Geoff Hacker

Three-Seaters
Asteroid,
Wayne Carini Hagerty Magazine “3 seaters I’ve known” article issue #87, 2024
Miami?

Art Cars – Paint Jobs
Similar to Bobby Green’s Fiberfab Jamaican

Early Postwar Allards
(password is Allard24)
Last Time an Allards Class Was at Pebble was 1990

Belly Tanks and Streamliners
Bobby Green and Old Crow

The Cars of Johnny Dark (1954)
9 cars including the black Wildfire

Special-Bodied Corvairs
Asteroid, Forcasta, Testudo, Fitch Phoenix, Eschelman Eagle, Monza SS Chevy Concept, Kaiser concept – Wayne Carini, Claymobile (Ali) 
https://www.undiscoveredclassics.com/special-bodied-corvairs/special-bodied-corvairs/

Cars by Architects
Frank Lloyd Wright, Raymond Lowey, Brooks Steven (?), Carl Luckenback
Autos by Architects: Special Interest Autos – March-April 1977

Postwar Electric Cars
1960 LaDawri by GE, 1953 Mota Glasspar by Banning,
1955 Electronic by LaSaetta, 1957 Pioneer, 1958 Alken Nik-L-Silver

Space Age Dune Buggies with Richard Brown
CRV in Texas or yellow one in Washington state as of 2023

Concept RV’s – Space Age
Ultravan, Richard Brown’s RV’s, National RV museum, Ferber, Executive, Daystar, GMC

Yesterday’s Tomorrows – Futuristic Cars From the Past
Galileo, Manta Ray, Shark, Sir Vival, Cannara, Eberts, LeMans Coupe

Custom Cords
Cords that have been customized in the 40s and 50s

Handbuilt Porsche Specials
Tiburon, Bucci and many more – 356 based

Early Hot Rods
Sunflower State Speedster

Possible  Future  Classes – Other  Contenders

Dream Cars of the 1950s
Pebble Beach
Cars That Didn’t Make the Dream Car Class at Pebble in 2023

Dream Cars of the 1940s
Ken asked about this in August, 2023

Dream Cars of the 1970s
Never Offered Before on the Field

Handcrafted Postwar Sports Cars
40s, 50s, 60s, or other

Cyclecar Class:  Xenia, IMP, Bedelia, Pioneer, Merz
Leslie Kendall

1942 Blackout Class
Leslie Kendall

H-Modified Race Cars 1950s and 1960s
Richard Campbell

Forgotten Fiberglass / Fabulous Fiberglass / Fiberglass Dream
50s, 60s

Kit Cars From the 1960s – The Revolution Begins!
Faron Smith and Donnie Vivier

Safety Cars with Derek Moore of Lane Museum
Aurora (Lane)
Sir Vival (Lane)
Surlesmobile (Lane)
Liberty Cornell (Greenwich in Detroit?)
Tucker (various owners)
Others from 1940s/1950s?

Quarter and Half Midgets
Production and One Off – I have three of these

Specific Shows

Chicago Auto Show
Debut of Chicagoan, Bucci Porsche, Bucci Executive RV, Devin – Salvatore Salerno (built in Chicago)

Detroit Auto Show
Debut of LaSaetta, Warrior I, Luckenbach Special

Raw Notes Below

Concours Class Ideas

  • Forgotten Fiberglass
  • Sport Customs
  • Teardrop cars (Streamlined Dreams)
  • Cars of Johnny Dark
  • Cars from other movies such as….(Bullit, LeMans,
  • MOMA 8 car exhibit
  • MOMA 10 car exhibit
  • Petersen Motorama – feature different years – not all at once. Petersen Motorama 1950 – the first (for example)
  • Hot Rod Exposition 1948 – America’s first postwar sports /custom/ speed car show
  • Fiberglass boats – (Tail fins and two tones)
  • The Famous car shows of the early 1950s (Herb Shriner, Indianapolis Custom Car show and others – I have a list and documentation).
  • The first 5 races in postwar California (Torre Pines, etc..)
  • Vintage transporters
  • America’s Lost Concept Cars
  • Postwar American Coachbuilt Classics
  • American Ford flathead powered sportscars
  • Father and son class
  • Early Corvette Customs – Kevin Bennet started Facebook group in May, 2022
  • Space Age Dune Buggies

America’s Lost Concept Cars:

Definition: While all of us in the car hobby have come to appreciate and be inspired by the concept cars produced by General Motors, Ford, Chrylser, and the Independents, there was a parallel movement in the 1950’s and 1960’s of creating concept cars across America that has been virtually forgotten

Cars were being developed by individuals and small companies that rivaled the design the big names and their shows in every way.  And there was a venue – an international stage – for these cars to debut:  The Petersen Motorama and Other International Car Shows that Were Being Held Across America.  These include:

  • Petersen Motorama (click here to view programs)
  • Chicago Auto Show
  • International Motor Sports Show: New York
  • World Motor Sports Show: New York
  • And more (I have complete list from the 1950’s)
  • Checkout the attachment showing cars in the 1954 Chicago Auto Show.  The “Big 3” and Independent Mfg Concept Cars there included:  Ford Atmos and Thunderbird, DeSoto Ghia, Hudson Italia, Cadillac Le Espada, Plymouth Belmont, Chevrolet hardtop Corvette, Dodge Firearrow, Olds F88, Mercury XM89, Packard Panther Daytona, Pontiac Bonneville Special, and at the bottom…..The Chicagoan.  Pictures attached.
  • Some of the cars available for such a class include:
  • Astra: Petersen Motorama (1953)
  • Grantham Stardust: Michican Moto Sports Show (1953)
  • Gardner Vega: Petersen Motora (1953?)
  • Warrior II: Detroit Auto Show / Cobo Hall (1964)
  • Sorrell: Petersen Motorama (1953)
  • Chicagoan: Chicago Auto Show (1954)
  • Bangart Manta Ray: Petersen Motorama (1954)
  • Meteor SR100: Petersen Motoram (1953)
  • Covington Tiburon: Oakland Roadster Show (1964)
  • Vale: Oakland Roadster Show (car is missing)
  • Vivant – Detroit
  • Bohada – New York
  • Paxton Phoenix?  Brooks Stevens…
  • John Bucci’s World’s Fair Car
  • Gyro X – Mark Brinker
  • Hanson Cobra – Petersen Motorama (1954)
  • Victress S4 – Petersen Motorama (1954) – Hugh Jorgensen
  • Joe Bortz Cars: Fitzpatrick and Saturn/Bob Hope Car – Both at Motoramas

Each of the cars above survive, except where noted.  There are other cars too.  We have to expand the list.  You and I would have a ball doing this 🙂