Every Car Week ends the same way, on the 18th fairway at Pebble Beach, with the most important concours in the world. In 2026 that finale carries extra weight, because it is the 75th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, a milestone for an event that has defined the collector-car calendar since 1950.
The Concours is not a car show in the ordinary sense. The field is invitation-only, the judging is exacting, and the cars, pre-war coachbuilt classics, significant racing machines, marque anniversaries, are restored past the point of reason and set on grass above the Pacific. Winning Best of Show here is the summit of the hobby, and the cars that cross the ramp become part of automotive history.
A 75th edition raises the stakes on everything. Anniversary years tend to bring out the rarest entries, the deepest classes, and the kind of one-off machines that surface once a generation, since owners and museums save their best for the milestone. The whole week builds toward it, and 2026 will build higher than most.
The 2026 spotlight is Ferrari, the featured marque for the milestone, with classes honoring the marque’s overall Le Mans winners, the NART competition cars run by Luigi Chinetti’s North American Racing Team, and the road cars bodied by Vignale in the golden age of Italian coachbuilding. Ferrari runs deep at Pebble Beach, more than 900 have crossed the grass since 1951, and it became the first ongoing postwar featured marque back in 1973, so anchoring the 75th to the prancing horse fits.
The insider move never changes: come at dawn. The Concours Dawn Patrol, when the cars roll onto the fairway in the coastal fog before the crowds arrive, is the quiet, extraordinary version of Pebble Beach that the afternoon never quite matches. Serious spectators treat the judging as the second act.
Whether you go for the milestone or just to say you saw the 75th, it is the one Sunday the entire car world watches. See where it closes the ten days on the Car Week hub, and check the events calendar for the Sunday schedule. For tickets and details, the Pebble Beach Concours has the plan.
