Classes and Exhibition Schedule
Classes In Process Or Development / Possible Future Classes
Currently Open
Petersen Museum: Strother MacMinn – Sports Cars of the Future (June, 2023 – February 25th, 2024)
- Petersen Exhibit 2023-2024 – Click Here
- Worksheet – Click Here (password protected)
Confirmed Classes / Exhibitions / Shows
Festivals of Speed / Gasparilla Concours d’Elegance – January 21, 2024
- Shark?
Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance – March, 2024
- Amelia 2024 – Sport Customs – Click Here (password protected)
- Worksheet – Click Here (password protected)
Handbuilt Autoshow at Motorsport Ranch (Cresson, Texas) – April, May or June, 2024
- Handbuilt Autoshow 2024 – Cresson, Texas at Motorsport Ranch – Click Here
- Worksheet – Click Here (password protected)
In Process Classes
Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance – August, 2024
- Pebble Beach 2024 – Wedge Cars – Click Here (password protected)
Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance – August, 2025
- Pebble Beach 2025 – Allards – Click Here (password is Allard24)
- Colin Warnes Will Co-Chair
- Class for our 1954 Allard Clipper
Need To Propose
Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance – Future Classes
- Create a Handbuilt postwar sports car class – not dream cars – to include the cars that did not make it in the 2023 class
- Dream cars of the 1940s – Ken asked about in August, 2023
Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance – Future Classes (consider expanding to Greenwich and Detroit Concours for Hagerty)
- Electric Cars – Mike Puma co-curator
Petersen Museum – Future Exhibitions
- Electric Postwar Cars – ongoing (LaDawri GE) – Mike Puma and GH
- Wedge Car (Cannara, Eberts) – Guy Dirkin and GH
- Follow-up to Fantasies in Fiberglass: Fred Bodley Victress
- Follow-up to Tailfins (include Manta Ray)
- Follow-up to California Car Design
- Hand built postwar sports cars – Fred Bodley Victress,
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
Possible Future Classes
Cars by Architects
- Frank Lloyd Wright, Raymond Lowey, Brooks Steven (?), Carl Luckenback,
Handbuilt Postwar Sports Cars
Postwar Electric Cars
- 1960 LaDawri by GE, 1953 Mota Glasspar by Banning, 1955 Electronic by LaSaetta, 1957 Pioneer, 1958 Alken Nik-L-Silver
Kaiser Frazer – focus on Darrin Designs
- 1953 Show Dragon
- 1954 Dragon – Factory
- 1951 Kaiser el Camino
- 1953 Dragon (Tim’s)
- 1955 Frazer Custom
- 1955 Kaiser 2 door supercharged – last year built
Kit Cars with Faron Smith and Donnie Vivier
Yesterday’s Tomorrows – Futuristic Cars From the Past
- Galileo, Manta Ray, Shark, Sir Vival, Cannara, Eberts, LeMans Coupe
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?
Space Age Dune Buggies with Richard Brown
- CRV in Texas or yellow one in Washington state as of 2023
The Cars of Johnny Dark (1954) with Steve Cowdin
- 9 cars including the black Wildfire
Forgotten Fiberglass / Fabulous Fiberglass / Fiberglass Dreams with Mike Puma
Sport Customs / American Boulevard Cruisers
Teardrop Cars – 30s, 40s, 50s with Jeff Lane and Derek Moore
Dream Cars of 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s with Ken Gross
Belly Tanks and Streamliners with Bobby Green
Concept RV’s – Space Age
- Ultravan, Richard Brown’s RV’s, National RV museum, Ferber, Executive, Daystar, GMC
Cars and Possible Classes For Debut
- 2025: 1954 Allard Clipper – Pebble Beach
- 2024: Cannara – Pebble Beach, Petersen
- Eberts car
- Fred Bodley Victress – Pebble / Petersen
- 1966 Bucci Porsche – Chicago Auto Show
- 1949 Wow Cadillac – custom / sport custom
- 1937 Cord – long wheelbase – ACD Show
- 1949 Panache – custom / sport custom
- 1949 Sunflower State Hot Rod – The Race of Gentlemen – New Jersey
- 1955 Allied Singer Swallow
- 1976 Bucci RV – Chicago Auto Show
- 1969 Ferber RV
- Lahti Crosley
- 1949 Packard Monte Carlo – Packard National Show
- Moon Transporter
- Gougeon Streamliner
- Racecar: Renault racecar – Dr. Paul Winters Renault
- Racecar: LaDawri Racecar – Simon LaDawri Conquest – Packard National Show
- Racecar: Possible LaDawri Firestar
- 1954 Chicagoan – Chicago Auto Show
- 1954 Luckenback Special – Detroit
- 1964 Warrior – Detroit
- 1952 LaSaetta – Detroit
- 1954 Victress S4 – sport custom
- 1953 Grantham Stardust – Johnny Dark
- 1954 Venus – Texas
- 1955 Debonnaire – sport custom
- 1966 Asteroid – Corvair Show in Chicago/Don Keefe
- 1950 DM Nacional – Mexico Concours d’Elegance – if safe and possible and can be insured
- Midgets – McDaniel, Squallow
- Check out the 11 bodies I have as of 8/23/2023