When you're showing your car at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, details matter: Windshield wipers the wrong shade? Tailpipe the wrong shape? Washers in your engine too shiny? That's going to cost you.
It was 7 on a Sunday morning in late August, and already you could feel the tension building. This was the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, arguably the most important judged vintage car show in the world, where vehicles already worth seven or eight figures can exponentially increase in value by winning the best of show award at day’s end. And just being invited to compete, let alone winning one of the 28 class awards or 18 special awards, can add to a car’s value and cachet.
The grand finale of Monterey Car Week, the Pebble Beach Concours, happens Sunday at the Lodge at Pebble Beach, when the 17th and 18th holes of one of the most storied public golf meccas are for one sweet day devoid of irons and wedges and instead dotted with more than 200 of the most important, valuable and unique cars from around the world.
Chief Class Judge Matt Stone questions entrant Gayle Hensler of Fair Oaks, Calif., about her 1954 Ford Comète Monte Carlo Facel Métallon Coupé. It is not uncommon for an owner to be a billionaire and/or captain of industry, but for those brief minutes as their “baby” gets scrutinized by the experts, that very same guy looks more like a kid outside the principal’s office awaiting sentencing. Stone and Goodfellow repeatedly swoop in to dissipate the stress, greeting each owner. “We can’t thank you enough for making the effort to be here today; without you, this would just be a golf course,” Stone told one exhibitor.
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