Arizona Concours is this Sunday!

There will be four featured classes for 2015:
the Pierce-Arrow luxury brand,
the 100th anniversary of the Italian design firm Ghia,
Ferrari race cars through 1965,
and cars once owned by architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

Ferrari race cars? Count me in! I'm still a bit upset I never heard about the Ferrari display in LA last fall.

Among the highlight automobiles are:
 1933 Pierce-Arrow Silver Arrow –  a radically streamlined sedan unveiled at the 1933 New York Auto Show. Only five were constructed and just three remain.

1953 Cadillac Ghia – The Rita Hayworth Cadillac

1937 The AC 16/80 “Ace” owned and used by Frank Lloyd Wright during winter stays at his Taliesin West home and architecture school in Scottsdale, Arizona. He purchased the sports car in 1948 and immediately had it painted Cherokee Red, his signature color.

1954 300SL Gullwing Delivered to legendary American sportsman and motorsports enthusiast Briggs Cunningham. The 300SL was likely a pre-production car not intended for sale but was renumbered by the factory to fulfill Cunningham's rush order, and it exhibits significant physical differences from most production Gullwings.

1937 Rolls-Royce “Copper Kettle” – This started life in 1937 with a limousine body, but in 1947, Rolls-Royce collector John Gaul had the car rebodied to this extravagant design by Freestone and Webb using a double skin of copper over steel for the fenders and added many luxury fittings.

1956 Ferrari 250 GT Zagato – This is one of five built for Camillo Luglio to compete for the Italian GT Championship, which proved to be a great combination, winning the Over 2 Liter Italian GT Championship in 1956.

Tickets for the Arizona Concours are strictly limited, with 2,000 paid entries available for the January 11 event. Tickets are priced at $75 each (children 15 and younger are admitted free with a paying adult) and are available on the official website of the Arizona Concours d’Elegance at www.arizonaconcours.com/product-category/ticket. Tickets could be available on the day of the Concours unless they sell out.

The Arizona Concours d’Elegance benefits Make-A-Wish Arizona, the founding chapter of the national organization that grants wishes for children facing life-threatening medical conditions.

Among the special Concours awards will be a Make-A-Wish trophy chosen by a group of Wish Kids from the automobiles on display.