California Concours d'Lemons 2022: The Absolute Worst Cars at Monterey Car Week

California Concours d'Lemons 2022: The Absolute Worst Cars at Monterey Car Week

California Concours d'Lemons 2022: The Absolute Worst Cars at Monterey Car Week

During Monterey Car Week, billions of dollars of exotic cars, classics, and other rolling reminders that you don't make the big bucks descent on Monterey, California, to slosh around into a dizzying slurry of gross excess. It's an amazing, overwhelming thing to take in, for sure, but luckily there's a blowoff valve of sorts for that suffocating wealth and glamour: Concours d'Lemons.

Held in nearby Seaside, California, a nice enough spot that, like most of the rest of America, resembles Oscar the Grouch's dingy trash can by comparison to Monterey, the Concours d'Lemons forces you to physically leave Car Week's fever dream environment.

Oh, and it also exclusively hosts shit cars. Just real salt-of-the-rust stuff, like Ford Pintos and homemade Lamborghini replicas. We're not being mean, either—the show, spun off of the 24 Hours of Lemons dirtball, low-buck racing series—is a self-proclaimed celebration of automotive detritus.

We last checked in to this steaming pile of a car show in 2019, so we held our noses and decided to go back. This year's show took over the parking lot and nearby lawn of the Seaside City Hall, and featured such bizarro junk such as a malaise-era American luxury sedan bedecked in some kind of craft "hair" and sporting a bug-eyed horse head atop it; a faux Lamborghini Countach; and some '80s Volkswagens.

Of course there were tons of eyesores in-between, and the show was packed. Check out what showed up in our extensive gallery:

We'd say "at least it was free," but this show should be free, because no one should need to pay to experience this. And that's exactly what makes it so enjoyable.

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