No, the Pebble Beach Concours event is unlikely to ever celebrate anything AMC. This year will still be a good year though, as the Monterey Car Week set is ready to champion Citroen. Beloved French beauties will ramble onto the greenery along the coast and serve as the featured marque for 2018.
If Hooniverse were somehow given the task of selecting a featured marque for Pebble Beach, what should we choose?
Hooniverse: Which marque do you want to see celebrated at Pebble Beach?
By Jeff Glucker
Aug 22, 2018
By Jeff Glucker
Jeff Glucker is the co-founder and Executive Editor of Hooniverse.com. He’s often seen getting passed as he hustles a 1991 Mitsubishi Montero up the 405 Freeway. IG: @HooniverseJeff
Kamil Kaluski
As much as we all want it – AMC probably, despite the short term efforts of Penske/Donohue, won’t get the featured marque anytime soon. But something different than the train of Porsche/Ferrari/Chevrolet/Ford easy picks would be cool to see. Not sure if Alfa or Lancia has ever had the honor. But as long as you’re wading around the pools of money in Monterey, might as well go all in. Duesenberg raced for a bit at Indy and Bonneville, let’s see those monsters go down the Corkscrew! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/fbd05b26433905ae4d918c9a3cff74fd00cc5c4ba722420486d8ac11b7d3aec1.jpg
Who made the GTX? Plymouth of course!
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You say Plymouth, yet you show pictures of a Hillman Avenger, Mitsubishi Lancer Celleste, and a Dodge Ramcharger? 😉
If Citroen can be, Renault can be, and if Renault can be, AMC might sneak in by association.
I vote for a Vector/Daewoo twin bill.
I eagerly await mdharrell’s input.
Vector was my first thought.
Ginetta
Squire – a mid-’30s English sports car. Just look at it. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/66f6d3c3098b93833b0aab7cfad7139159668ec3cb57942dc0f137e3afe01003.jpg
One of the brands I respect the most right now is Kia. If I was in the marked for a new car, their offerings would be on my list, probably at the top. Time to figure out their history, and celebrate it.
https://autowise.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/kia_k360-e1337635697358.jpg
I’m on my second Soul but I will be long gone before a Kia is ever celebrated at Pebble Beach!
Morgan
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Zimmer!
https://autopolis.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/zimmer_quicksilver_pair_1985.jpg?w=300&h=196
Heh – I almost don’t hate the Zimmer Quicksilver. At least it looks something like a professional styling job – the only really messy part is the heavy chrome around the taillights. I think this is a better fate for a Pontiac Fiero than some fake Ferrari 328 kit. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2ac9b8aeba941a8eb01c1acb7c7512236f68725ccc47a40deeb3f18942fe7dd8.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9410c13773a5662512b0e04b52c8ba82681bafa3bb8e57bea8bdd5490d14c2bb.jpg
Those aren’t the headlights.
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Just the parking lights.
Did they cut up an 80’s Thunderbird to make that B/C pillar?
How come the car in the second picture has a “PMY” license plate, but wears grey paint?
They’re cars for those whose considerable enthusiasm is focused on something other than cars. Something weird.
Their corporate slogan should be “Keep them guessing, drive a Zimmer!”
I’d like a microcar special, Goggomobil, Lloyd, Heinkel, Isetta, Peel, and early Kei cars.
As well as the Etceterini for the racing perspective.
Sunbeam. Grand Prix racing and land speed records in the 1920s. There are a lot of interesting pre-war Sunbeam cars, and then they have the rallying heritage in the 50-60s even before you get to the more modern Tigers.
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Also first British constructor to win a grand prix, endurance racing in the 1920s and again in the 1960s, Brooklands, Indianapolis, British touring cars including 3 championships (albeit by a privateer team), a WRC title if you count Talbot Sunbeams.
I always thought Borgward was highly underrated. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/22d027c3377bfdabc79207868b0c89d650ee3616d4a2eee136261b6076df06dc.jpg
I should have said that I’m on my first “mortal” soul and my second Kia Soul. You ae right, it would grab the attention of the prigs!