{"id":24429,"date":"2017-07-17T11:09:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T18:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24429"},"modified":"2017-07-17T02:09:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T09:09:58","slug":"pebble-beach-rock-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/pebble-beach-rock-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockstars of Cars at Pebble Beach Concours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/carz.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Why would anyone pay $375 general admission for 3.5 hours of car viewing? That&#8217;s over $100\/hour! With every car show there&#8217;s a story and once you hear it, you understand that cars aren&#8217;t just objects to get you from Point A to B &#8212; at least that&#8217;s true at Pebble Beach Concours D&#8217;Elegance, held on August 20, 2017. \u00a0Sure, there&#8217;s a certain charm to California classics such as free-to-see Woodies at the Beach at City College in Santa Barbara July 21-23, but that&#8217;s a different story.<\/p>\n<h2>Pebble Beach Concours d&#8217;Elegance<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Isotta Fraschini, Italy&#8217;s most opulent automobile brand, is featured in 2017, along with Castagna Coachwork, Ferrari Major Race Winners and Ferrari One-off Sp\u00e9ciales.<\/li>\n<li>Corrado Presto (pictured, top 2 photos,) owns Garage Corrado southwest of Milan, Italy, which houses the Isotta Fraschini marque\u2019s complete factory archives. \u00a0The 2017 Pebble Beach Concours d\u2019Elegance features a rare 1901 Isotta bare chassis in one of the Isotta Fraschini classes, the 1947 and 1948 Isotta Fraschini 8C Monterosas in the Postwar Grand Touring class, along with a wide variety of Tipo 8As in the Isotta Fraschini Castagna Coachwork Open and Closed Classes. (A 1924 Isotta Fraschini \u00a0won the 2015 Pebble Beach Concours D&#8217;Elegance Best of Show, bottom photo.)<\/li>\n<li>Leading up to Pebble Beach Concours are five days of car displays, auctions and events.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/concours-car-shows.html\">Concours California<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Pebble Beach Aug.20<\/li>\n<li>Danville Sept.17<\/li>\n<li>Murphys Sept.23<\/li>\n<li>El Dorado Hills Oct.1<\/li>\n<li>Torrance Oct.1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/cars\/california-woodie-car-shows.html\">Woodies California<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Santa Barbara July 21-23<\/li>\n<li>Encinitas Sept.23<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why would anyone pay $375 general admission for 3.5 hours of car viewing? That&#8217;s over $100\/hour! With every car show there&#8217;s a story and once you hear it, you understand that cars aren&#8217;t just objects to get you from Point A to B &#8212; at least that&#8217;s true at Pebble Beach Concours D&#8217;Elegance, held on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24429"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}