June 2018
June 21st, 2018 by Sherry Grantz
Secrets of a Concours Judge
by Clint deWitt
photos by Morris H. Lum
I have always had a soft spot in my heart for concours. What car enthusiast isn’t beguiled by the brass era cars or the Duesnbergs and other speedsters of the 20s and 30s?
My own love of sports cars came on a camping trip at age 10 or 11, when our bus parked next to the most beautiful car I had ever seen. It looked like it was going 100 mph standing still. It was an Austin Healey 100, and it made the staid American sedans of the early 50s look like transportation for frumpy old ladies! It was followed shortly in my mind’s eye collection by the timeless XK120 Jag, the truly gorgeous gullwing Mercedes, the beautiful little Alfa Guilietta roadster, and my all time favorite, the super-slippery bathtub Porsche.
At a concours you can see each of these marques and countless more, all dressed in their Sunday best, but SF Region is one of only 2 regions, out of the 117 regions in SCCA, that has its own concours program.
Read the whole article in the June issue –>