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在加利福尼亚州中部海岸，汽车爱好者可以在一个周末之内，同时欣赏汽车界最顶级的座驾和最破烂的废铁。
没有哪个地方能像圆石滩优雅车展（Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance）那样颂扬汽车的美学魅力。这些车辆如同香槟气泡般脱颖而出，成为全球最稀有、最具收藏价值的经典车型。
这场仅限受邀者参加的活动由桑德拉·巴顿（Sandra Button）主持，她全程态度严谨——这并非没有道理。巴顿表示，对许多人而言，拥有这类车型“就如同拥有一件艺术品”。
“随着时间流逝，作为车辆守护者，我们必须确保它们保持原汁原味。我们的存在就是为了这些车，”巴顿说道。
但就在蒙特雷县第18球道那片完美的绿色草坪不远处，在海滨市政厅未经精心打理的空地上，另一场活动正日渐走红。
“柠檬车展”（Concours d’Lemons）更像是街头烤肠而非鱼子酱的盛会，专门致敬那些不那么受欢迎、不那么受追捧且价格低廉的家用代步车。
艾伦·加尔布雷思（Alan Galbraith）在2009年一手打造了这场盛会，他自称是“柠檬车展的首席密封垫”（head gasket，双关语，既指发动机密封垫，也指核心组织者）。和优雅车展一样，这也是一场年度汽车庆典，只不过展会上的车辆平庸无奇而非出身名门。
“我们当时就想，如果有巅峰，那必然也该有谷底，我们做的就是这件事，”加尔布雷思说道。
车展的分类标签最能说明问题：瑞典肉丸组、耗人精力的日本家电组，还有锈带美国废铁奖。
威尔·休斯（Will Hughes）的穿搭和他那辆获奖座驾一样“别具一格”——那是一辆1983款奥兹莫比尔Cutlass，他称之为“毫无动力的废铁”。
“原厂出厂时就只有75马力，现在只剩50马力了。开到每小时50英里时，那声音听起来就像撞到了一条狗，”休斯说道。
加尔布雷思举办这场年度活动并无任何不敬之意，恰恰相反。
“很多人看到大众甲壳虫时，总能想起这样的故事：‘啊，我和六个蠢哥们开车去看演唱会，我们挤在这辆车里一起去的’，”加尔布雷思说，“不是每个人都有驾驶杜森伯格或法拉利的经历，对吧？所以这类车能和车主建立更紧密的情感联结。”
这里没有最佳展车奖——只有最糟展车奖。今年，克里斯·沃拉德（Chris Wollard）凭借一辆只能被称为“不明驾驶物体”的作品摘得头奖。往届获奖者包括一辆双头本田车，以及一台名为“黄油杯”的毛绒覆盖版林肯大陆。
当被问及驾驶自己的车是何种体验时，沃拉德回答：“太吓人了。这主意糟透了，但看起来很酷。”
当这场喷满彩带的庆典接近尾声时，加尔布雷思已经开始为次日的工作调整状态。尽管他在柠檬车展上深爱福特平托和AMC漫步者，但他同样尊重优雅车展上的布加迪和宾利。事实上，他在那里是一名受人尊敬的首席讲解员。
“他太爱搞怪了，想想圆石滩车展这么严肃的周末，居然有人出来插科打诨，消解一下紧绷的氛围，真是太有意思了，”巴顿说道。
从稀世珍品到破烂废铁，美国人对汽车的热爱可谓来者不拒。汽车爱好者们总会停下来打量任何带发动机的东西。
“如果你能开怀大笑、心情愉悦，为原本可能相当严肃的场合增添一点轻松，那我的目的就达到了，”加尔布雷思说道。
Celebrating the most prestigious, and the junkers, of the automobile world
May 24, 2026 / 10:41 AM EDT / CBS News
On the central coast of California, car enthusiasts can marvel at the most prestigious and the junkers of the automobile world, all in one weekend.
No place celebrates the elegance of the automobile quite like the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. Like bubbles in champagne, these vehicles have risen to the top as some of the most exclusive and valuable collector cars in the world.
This invite-only event is chaired by Sandra Button, who exudes a very serious air about it all — for good reason. Button said for some, owning one of these cars is “like owning an art form.”
“As more and more time goes by, as caretakers, it’s important that we keep them authentic. That we’re really here for the cars,” Button said.
But just up the road from the perfect green carpet of the 18th fairway in Monterey, on the not-so-manicured laws of the Seaside City Hall, is another event that’s gained popularity.
The Concours d’Lemons is a more corndog than caviar event that’s an ode to the less desirable, less loved and less expensive driveway dwellers.
Alan Galbraith stitched together this monstrosity in 2009. He calls himself the “head gasket of the Concours d’Lemons.” Like Concours d’Elegance, it’s an annual celebration of cars where the vehicles ooze with mediocrity instead of pedigree.
“We kind of figured if there’s a top, there needs to be, you know, rock bottom, and that’s what we do,” Galbraith said.
The car categories say it all. There’s the Swedish Meatball class, the Soul Sucking Japanese Appliance class, and the award for Rust Belt American Junk.
Will Hughes was dressed just as questionably as his award-winning entry — a 1983 Oldsmobile Cutlass — the “gutless” as he calls it.
“It started out from the factory with 75 horsepower. Now it’s 50. Sounds like you hit a dog when you get up to 50 miles per hour,” Hughes said.
Galbraith means no disrespect in holding the annual event. It’s just the opposite.
“A lot of people, they’ll see a VW Bug and, you know, you can come up with the story of, ‘Ah, me and six of my idiot buddies went to a concert. We all crammed in that car and went there,’” Galbraith said. “Not everybody has that story about a Duesenberg or a Ferrari, right? So there’s a little bit more of a connection with some of these cars.”
There’s no Best of Show here – only Worst of Show. This year, Chris Wollard took home the top prize for entering what can only be described as an unidentified driving object. Past winners have included a double-ended Honda and a fur-covered Lincoln Continental named Buttercup.
When asked what it’s like to drive his car, Wollard replied, “It’s terrifying. It was a terrible idea. But it looks cool.”
As the silly-stringed festivities were coming to an end, Galbraith began shifting gears for the job he’d start the following morning. For all the love he has for Ford Pintos and AMC Pacers at the Concours d’Lemons, he respects the Bugattis and Bentleys at the Concours d’Elegance. In fact, he’s a respected lead docent there.
“He’s such a trickster and it was just so fun to think on this weekend when Pebble Beach is so serious that somebody was having a little poke at us and having some fun and kind of taking the seriousness out of all of it,” Button said.
From the rare to the rotten, Americans’ love affair with the automobile is a bit promiscuous. Enthusiasts will stop and look at just about anything with a motor.
“If you’re laughing, smiling, having a good time, a little bit of levity into what can be a fairly serious thing. If you’re having fun, I’ve done my job,” Galbraith said.
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