2021 DesMoines Concours

By Steve Kroeger

A CELEBRATION OF THE ART AND DESIGN OF THE AUTOMOBILE SEPTEMBER 11-12, 2021

The 2021 Des Moines Concours d’Elegance was held September 11-12 at the John and Mary Pappajohn Sculpture Art Park, in downtown Des Moines, Iowa. The show hosts annual classes every year, from antiques up to 1927, to the high priced Classics from 1915 to 1948. It also has classes for the American muscle cars, up to 1973 and a

motorcycle class, featuring icons of the motorcycle world. It also has yearly special classes of other famous and significant cars that have been produced. This year, for the first time, through the efforts of David Sanderson, President of the Central Iowa Regional Group #145, our Region sponsored the first ever Ford Flathead V-8 Class of 1932 to 1953. This class was for Fords with the original V-8 engines.

Fourteen early Ford and Lincoln V-8s were selected by the committee of the class. Five of which came from our very own Region. Those cars included; a 1935 Ford Coupe, belonging to Richard and Verna Grieve; a 1939 Ford Fordor Sedan, belonging to Wade and Mary Krieg; a 1940 Ford Tudor, belonging to new members Eldon and Denise McAfee; a 1936 Woody, belonging to Roger and Pam Oliver and a 1935 Ford Phaeton belonging to past member David and Lois Johnson. Three cars were selected as winners of the class and 1st place

went to the 1951 Lincoln convertible, 2nd place went to Dave and Lois Johnsons Phaeton and 3rd place went to a 1932 5-window Coupe.

We had a good crowd of visitors stopping by to view the early Ford V8 class. Many comments of how well the cars looked and many memories of the days past were brought up. The show was a nice event showing our V -8s and promoting not only our Regional Group, but also the Early Ford V-8 Club of America to all of the visitors that attended.

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