Although we can’t fulfil that particular desire, we’ve done the next best thing by trawling the market in search of former Pebble Beach Concours entrants that you can actually own, rather than merely fantasise about. From one of the rare Vignale-bodied ‘Otto Vu’ Fiats to an even-rarer pre-War prototype Jaguar, these cars were all, at one point in time, selected for concours duty by the Pebble committee. And the Austin Seven Monoposto? Well, that apparently proved its punch-above-its-weight prowess with an impressive performance in the Monterey Historic Automobile Races at the nearby Laguna Seca Raceway, so we think it’s worthy of inclusion, too...

Photo: Frank Dale & Stepsons