Mark August 16, 2026, on your calendar in ink. The 75th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance arrives at The Lodge at Pebble Beach with one of the most substantive announcement packages in the event’s history — Ferrari and NART as featured marque, Vignale as featured coachbuilder, three new competition classes, and a reunion of four automobiles that haven’t shared the same lawn since the Chicago World’s Fair of 1933.
Four Cars, One Fair — A 93-Year Reunion
The announcement that will draw the longest stares on the Concours lawn is a confirmed gathering of four automobiles that all headlined the Travel and Transport Building at Chicago’s “Century of Progress” exposition. Three of the four are true one-offs — built to stop the world in its tracks during the depths of the Great Depression. Together, they represent American coachbuilding and industrial design at its most audacious.
The anchor of the quartet is the 1933 Duesenberg SJ “Twenty Grand” — chassis 2539, engine J513 — a Rollston Arlington Torpedo Sedan designed by Gordon Buehrig and priced at $20,000 new, roughly $497,000 today. Its supercharged DOHC straight-eight produced 320 horsepower in an era when most Americans were lucky to own a car at all. The Twenty Grand currently resides in the Nethercutt Collection in Sylmar, California, restored to its iconic pewter-silver finish. It took Best of Show at Pebble Beach in 1980. Estimated today at $50 million, it may be the most valuable American automobile ever built.
Alongside it stands the 1933 Packard V-12 Sport Sedan by Dietrich — known as “The Car of the Dome” after a jury of artists moved it to pride of place beneath the Transport Building’s central dome. Its interior metal trim, including the steering column, was plated in actual gold. The car later passed through the Harrah and Nethercutt collections before reaching its current ownership.
The 1933 Cadillac V-16 Aerodynamic Coupe brought genuine engineering ambition to the fair. Developed under Harley Earl’s GM Art and Colour Section, this streamlined coupe — powered by Cadillac’s 368-cubic-inch V-16 — wasn’t merely a showpiece. It was a true prototype that led directly to 20 production cars.
Rounding out the group is the 1933 Pierce-Arrow Silver Arrow, chassis 2575015, engine 360001. Styled by Phillip O. Wright and heralded at the time with the slogan “Suddenly it’s 1940!”, its flush-fitting doors, concealed twin spare tires, low roofline, and step-down interior predated Cord by three years and Hudson by over a dozen years. Only five Silver Arrows were built, each requiring more than three months of labor from 30 skilled craftsmen. This particular example has previously won Most Elegant at the Pebble Beach Concours and scored a perfect 100 points at CCCA judging.
Ferrari, Chinetti, and NART
Ferrari has been a recurring presence at Pebble Beach since 1973 — the first ongoing postwar featured marque in the event’s history. The 75th edition sharpens that focus considerably. The Concours will spotlight Ferrari’s overall Le Mans winners alongside a dedicated class for Luigi Chinetti’s North American Racing Team competition cars.
Chinetti’s biography reads like the sport itself. He won his third Le Mans overall in 1949 — Ferrari’s first — driving the majority of the 24 hours himself. He became Ferrari’s exclusive U.S. importer and founded NART in 1958, the team making its Le Mans debut that same year. NART’s 1965 Le Mans victory proved to be Ferrari’s last outright win there for nearly six decades. Over 24 years, the team contested more than 200 races with over 100 drivers — among them Stirling Moss, Mario Andretti, Phil Hill, Pedro and Ricardo Rodríguez, and Graham Hill. NART’s final race was the 1982 24 Hours of Le Mans, where the No. 72 Ferrari 512 BB/LM finished ninth overall.
Vignale serves as featured coachbuilder. Alfredo Vignale opened his carrozzeria in Turin in 1948, and his collaboration with designer Giovanni Michelotti — beginning in 1950 — produced some of the most coveted coachbuilt Ferraris, Lancias, Maseratis, and FIAT 8Vs of the postwar era. The 2026 Concours will showcase Vignale-bodied road cars alongside the NART racers, offering a rare dual portrait of Ferrari’s competition and coachbuilding legacy.
New Classes and a Landmark Display
Three new judging classes debut in 2026: Early American Speedsters, Classic Streamliners, and Japanese Motorsports — the last a notable acknowledgment of Japan’s increasingly recognized contribution to motorsport history on the world’s most prestigious Concours lawn.
The event will also host the American debut of the Sunbeam 1000 HP — the first car to exceed 200 mph — freshly restored by the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu, England.
On the organizational front, Concours Chairman Sandra Button — who has led the event for 40 years — will transition to a Brand Ambassador and Strategic Advisor role effective October 1, 2026, following the show.
The 75th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance takes place August 16, 2026, on the 18th fairway of Pebble Beach Golf Links. Ticket and class information is available at pebblebeachconcours.net.
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