The Double Edged Enthusiasm of Car Culture The Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance and the Concours d'Lemons are two fixtures on California's central coast.
These events bookend a weekend that showcases the extremes of automobile collecting: the rarefied world of exclusivity and the decidedly more downmarket realm of "undesirability.
" The former is an invitation only affair featuring some of the most valuable collector cars in existence, while the latter has become a tongue in cheek celebration of vehicles that are less coveted.