Here is more information:
Submit a short 90-120 second video of your vehicle using your phone.

Concorso Italiano strong suggestions:
Suggested Equipment – Always shoot in landscape (horizontal) format

• Apple iPhone 8 or newer/Samsung Galaxy S9 or newer
• Camera person or tripod
• (optional) DJI phone gimbal
• (optional) Lavalier microphone

Environment

• (ideal) cloudy weather, early morning, or dusk
• If in direct sunlight, please ensure the sun is in front of your vehicle, not behind
• Open air free of other vehicles or objects

Key Points

• Introduce yourself
• Mention the year/make/model of your vehicle
• Special features (if any)
• Tell the story of your vehicle while showing your vehicle’s details (interior, exterior and engine bay)
• Feel free to start the engine, but ensure your voice can be heard if you are talking

Additional Information and Suggestions

• Concorso Italiano invites every owner of an Italian car to participate in this complimentary event.
• All videos must be submitted no later than July 10th.  Concorso Italiano cannot accept submissions after the 10th.
• Music is OK in your video if you are so technologically inclined, but in terms of audio what is most important is your voice.  We want to hear you tell us about your car.  Tell us the items in “Key Points” above, and feel free to tell us why you purchased the car and the adventures you’ve had with it.  Please don’t let any music drown your voice.
• We will be judging the cars by marque, just as we do every year for the last 3½ decades.
• We may need to edit some videos if they run a little long, but we will not add any content for this virtual event.  What you submit is what we will see.

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Our mutual friend Mark Greene of Cars Yeah provides a great example.  Please watch this video.  You  can hear Mark very clearly.  You get a great view of his car, and his passion is quite evident.

by Wallace Wyss for Concourso Italiano

July 23, 1934 – June 1, 2017
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We lost Tom Tjaarda last week. Tom, a member of the Concorso Italiano Hall of Fame, was revered by attendees, especially so by the owners of DeTomaso Panteras.  He achieved the American car enthusiast’s dream of designing cars in Italy, and I always envied him.  Tom chose the right era, the ‘60s, to go there and am thankful that we American enthusiasts had one of us in Italy, making the Italian designs practical enough to bring to these shores.

We know Tom best for his Pantera design, both the original and the L model. But, Tom also did a stint at Pininfarina where he designed two Ferraris that reached production—the 330GT and the 365 California Spyder, as well as the Fiat 124—a mass market sports car that even influences today’s Fiat 124

When you look back at Tom’s career, it’s interesting that he earned a degree in architecture at the University of Michigan, but instead chose to work as a car designer.  He spent almost his whole career—spanning five decades—in Italy. Tom chose the most exciting time to be there, the ‘60s and the ‘70s. Every time I met Tom at Monterey (after first interviewing him in 1970 at the Pantera rollout) I coaxed a little more of the story out of him about this car or that. Fortunately,

​Tom had begun writing for Britain’s OCTANE magazine, telling the “back story” of many a design, some of which only made it to the “prototipo” stage. I think his proudest moments were when some one-off design he had done was found, restored and made its re-debut at a concours, as if to say: “See– this one should have made it to production…..”

Concourse Italiano is THE Italian car show to attend on the west coast. It's held at The Bayonet and Blackhorse golf course which is  located on what used to be Ft. Ord, a large military base from 1917 until it was decommissioned in 1994.  It was founded in 1986 by a group of Maserati and Alfa Romeo enthusiasts which actually includes one of the founders of the Cortile.  However, when I arrived I had not known that fact.

Concourso Italiano is held during the Monterey Car week in August each year.

The week of car events on the Monterey peninsula include the 

• Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance is held on the final Sunday of Monterey Car Week. The Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance was founded in 1950 as an adjunct to the Pebble Beach Road Race, a race event sponsored by the Sports Car Club of America and conducted on a circuit of closed public roads.
• Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, formerly known as the Monterey Historics until 2010, is held the final weekend of Monterey Car Week at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. The three-day event has over 500 participants, and generally features a specific marque every year.
• Legends of the Autobahn show features German automobiles. It began as a BMW Car Club of America event and grew to include all German cars.
• The Porsche Werks Reunion event features Porsches and was established in 2014 after splitting off from the Legends of the Autobahn show.
• The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering (usually shortened to The Quail) is a car show limited to 200 automobiles located at the Quail Lodge & Golf Club

In 1976 Maserati Club International was formed and it quickly grew to 3500 members, which was pretty extraordinary by itself. 1986 saw the first Concorso Italiano with the Maserati Club and and Alfa Romeo Club playing an instrumental role in ti's creation. That first year saw 45 Maseratis on the snowfield.

The 2015 Concorso Italiano featured the reunion of the Ferrari 250 GTE, the 25th anniversary of the Lamborghini Diablo, the 50th anniversary of the Iso Grifo, the “King of Spain” Maserati Quattroporte, the Touring Superleggera concept car, and Tom Meade’s Thomassima II.

As I traveled the showgrounds I discovered that Alfa Romeo had just unveiled their new logo: Only the sixth change since the their beginning in 1910.   The Alfa Romeo booth was surrounded by cars from the Alfa Romeo Owner's Club who where one of the founding clubs of the event.  ​Featured prominently was the newly introduced 4C which will certainly grace these show fields in 50 years time.

​Certainly one of the true highlights of the show was seeing the  25th anniversary of the Lamborghini Diablo display area.  I was intrigued by the story about a barn find of a Lamborghini Muira what was over a decade in the making.  What was presented was a completely original un-restored Muira.  

The Concorso Italiano is now run by Tom McDowell who also runs the Desert Concorso.  It's a well managed and very organized show that brings together the very best Italian cars on the west coast.  Similar to the Cortile, it features both daily drivers, I followed about 5 Alfa Romeo Duetto's down 101 to the Show, as well as some very rare show cars.  I was surprised to run into at least 10 people from the Cortile Show at Concourso Italiano! My son and I are planning a road trip next summer and making this the Apex of our trip. If you have to opportunity to visit Concorso Italiano in the future be sure to let some people at the Cortile know.

​Below please find some more great images from the show....  ~Bernard Martin