Pebble Beach 2022: what to expect?

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New concours d’élégance events are constantly being organised, but the benchmark for many of the (would-be) organizers and contenders simply has to be ‘Pebble Beach’. This year, the hyper-manicured happening in California will take place on 20 and 21 August on the Pebble Beach golf links. And the organizers seem to have kept the secrecy of what we can expect pretty well.

What do we know? From their own PR department: “Two hundred of the world’s top collector cars will be traveling from 21 countries, spanning the globe from the Czech Republic to Italy, Israel, Thailand, Japan and Australia. Entries will also represent 32 different US states”. The Czech Republic, Israel and Thailand are probably the least obvious places for cars of this calibre to come from and we are told that two cool (post-war) Talbot-Lagos come from the Czech Republic, but we have no idea about the others.

We also know what classes the 200 cars will be divided into and for us here at PreWarCar.com there will of course be plenty of interesting stuff to see. First there’s ‘A century of Lincoln’. Actually, the Lincoln Motor Company began in 1917, but here we look at the company since its acquisition by Ford in 1922. We expect at least some L-series cars, perhaps with LeBaron, Murphy or Rollston bodywork? Another centenary that will be celebrated in California is 100 years of the 24 Hours of Le Mans (the first race took place in May 1923) and “the concours will be hosting a selection of important Le Mans competitors”.

Next in line is the Alfa-Romeo 8C 2300 and we wonder which of the cars will make it to the golf course. Just the Monzas or also some of the less obviously bodied coupes or spiders? A class to our heart is ‘Graber Coachwork’, where the work of Swiss carrosserier Hermann Graber is on display. A few years ago, the beautiful 1938 Jaguar SS 100 Graber Coupé was on display at the event (seen here on the Pebble Beach coastal tour) and an equally beautiful Duesenberg Model J Convertible Coupé has also been on display.

There are three other classes in which extraordinary PreWarCars can be seen, namely ‘1932 Ford Historic Hot Rods’; ‘McFarlan Cars’ (1910-1928 ― survivors are rare) and ‘Unorthodox Propulsion’. On the latter, the organizers write: “As the world turns to electric vehicles, it’s important to note that at the beginning of the 20th century electricity and steam vied with gasoline engines to power these radical new ‘horseless carriages’. The Unorthodox Propulsion class will present the many weird, wild, and wonderful ways that automotive inventors have sought to power the automobile. Prepare to be surprised.”

Words Jeroen Booij. Pictures courtesy of Pebble Beach Concours d’élégance.

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