Black-and-white image of a 1950s sports racer on dew-heavy grass at sunrise, Spanish moss in the trees behind, the car’s haunch cropped at the left edge
The season

Concours · 2026

The Amelia Concours d’Elegance

March 5–8, 2026The Golf Club of Amelia Island · Amelia Island, Florida

The fixture

The Amelia is the American spring’s great lawn — a concours with a motorsport soul, built around an honoured driver each year and fields that lean toward racing provenance as much as coachwork.

The auctions that orbit the weekend have grown into a full market fixture of their own; together with the concours they make Amelia Island the first full reading of the American collector year after Kissimmee’s volume test.

Racing provenance judged on a lawn — Amelia’s classes map directly to the file’s competition chapters.
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Dates
March 5–8, 2026
Venue
The Golf Club of Amelia Island
Place
Amelia Island, Florida (US)
Type
Concours
Dated from
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Results from this fixture feed the ledger — record sales, class wins and documented outings land in the affected cars’ files.

The origin

1996

The Ritz-Carlton’s Amelia Island public-relations team proposed a world-class concours on its campus; Bill Warner took it forward as a charity fundraiser. A Road & Track photographer and writer, Warner founded the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance in 1996. The first concours, held in April 1996, named Stirling Moss honoree. Hagerty acquired the concours on 23 June 2021 and said Warner would remain Chairman Emeritus. The organizer now styles it The Amelia Concours.

How it runs

Two Best of Show
Since 2005, The Amelia has made two Best of Show awards: Concours d’Elegance and Concours de Sport. The 2025 results identify the d’Elegance prize as the Spirit of the Concours Trophy and the de Sport prize as the Indy Motor Speedway/Tony Hulman Award.
Four-day program
The latest published schedule began Thursday with Broad Arrow preview and Reverie at the Ritz-Carlton. Friday marked the 8 Flags Road Tour kick-off in Fernandina Beach; Saturday staged the judged concours on the Golf Club’s fairways; Sunday closed with Cars & Caffeine, which has no judging or awards.
Classes and entries
Entrants submit vehicles for selection-committee review. The 2026 concours listed more than 250 vehicles across more than 35 classes. Its field included Duesenberg, Ferrari Competition, Porsche aluminum-bodied cars, Can-Am, IMSA race cars, winners at Sebring, Daytona or Le Mans, a Cars of the Honoree class, and hypercars.
Official auction
Broad Arrow Auctions, driven by Hagerty, is the official auction partner. In 2026 it held its two-day sale at the Ritz-Carlton on Friday and Saturday, separately scheduled from the judged concours. Other auction houses also sell during Amelia week; their hammers are auction results, not concours awards.

On the record

  1. 1996

    The inaugural 1996 event named Stirling Moss its honoree, and a 1938 Talbot-Lago 150SS by Figoni & Falaschi took Best of Show.

  2. 2005

    The tenth event introduced two Best of Show awards: the Nethercutt Collection’s 1931 Bugatti Type 51 Dubos took Concours d’Elegance, while the Collier Collection’s 1953 Porsche 550 Coupé took Concours de Sport.

  3. 2011

    Twenty-nine Duesenbergs appeared in 2011. Helen and Jack Nethercutt’s 1933 SJN Arlington Torpedo Sedan, the Twenty Grand, took Concours d’Elegance; Harry Yeaggy’s 1935 SJ Speedster, the Mormon Meteor, took Concours de Sport.

  4. 2021

    The May 2021 edition gave Concours de Sport to James Bartel’s 1974 Shadow DN4 and Concours d’Elegance to Jill and Charles Mitchell’s 1926 Hispano-Suiza H6B Cabriolet. Hagerty acquired the concours on 23 June; Warner stayed Chairman Emeritus.

  5. 2025

    The Keller Collection’s 1938 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B, chassis 412028 and entered by Alejandro Tonda Keller, took Concours d’Elegance; Chris MacAllister’s 1967 Lotus 49 took Concours de Sport. The Alfa then won the 2025 Peninsula Classics Best of the Best Award in Paris.