Pebble Beach’s 75th Poster Set Finally Puts the Road Races on the Wall
Tim Layzell’s three official posters for the 75th Concours go on sale Wednesday for $50 each or $95 as a set. For the first time, one of them commemorates the Del Monte Forest road races that created the show.
PEBBLE BEACH — If you spent Tuesday watching automobilia change hands in Seaside, Wednesday is when Pebble Beach sells the paper version of its own origin story.
The Concours has released a three-poster set for its 75th celebration on August 16, painted by automotive artist Tim Layzell. Sales begin Wednesday, August 12 at The Vault at RetroAuto and the Concours Village Info Booth, then again at the Main Entry Point on Concours Sunday.
Single posters are $50. The full set is $95. Leftovers move online at theconcoursstore.com after the week ends.
Two of the posters do what anniversary art usually does. The Concours sheet reunites Alfa Romeo’s three BAT concepts approaching the awards ramp, a callback to their 1989 gathering and to this year’s return. The Tour d’Elegance sheet puts a one-of-one 1954 Ferrari 375 America Vignale Cabriolet on Highway 1 near Bixby Bridge, which also telegraphs the Vignale road-car focus on the lawn.
The third poster is the news. For the first time, Pebble Beach is selling an official commemorative image of the Pebble Beach Road Races, the 1.8-mile Del Monte Forest circuit that ran from 1950 through 1956 and gave the Concours its reason to exist.
Layzell paints Ernie McAfee’s red 1955 OSCA MT4-TN Barchetta leading a Porsche-engined Cooper, the so-called Pooper, through pine shade and spectator fences. The cars are the subject. The forest is the point.
The 75th Concours is spending real lawn space on those same origins. Two Road Racing Greats classes will mix near-original factory racers with hand-built specials, including Ken Miles’s MG R1 and R2 “Flying Shingle.”
Those cars won and broke on this peninsula long before Ford’s Le Mans chapter made Miles a household name. The poster is the portable version of that theme. You can hang it after you miss the awards ramp crush.
It also sits cleanly beside today’s ACE auction story. Auction posters chase provenance and period paper. Official Concours posters are authorized anniversary merchandise with a known artist, a fixed price, and a short in-person window. One market is scarce and contested. The other is timed and printed. Both are how households without a trailer take Car Week home.
Asian American and Asian Canadian collectors already treat marque art and race posters as living-room culture. A $50 Road Races sheet is an easier first Concours souvenir than a program you’ll never open again, and the three-sheet set still costs less than a long dinner in Carmel.
If you are already mapping the week, put RetroAuto and Concours Village on the Wednesday list before the larger auction houses eat the calendar. Cross-check Monterey Car Week, the Pebble Beach Concours page, and our automobilia auction note. Drive timing still lives in the San Francisco to Monterey road trip. Buy the set if you want the Road Races sheet. Buy one if you only have wall space for the forest.