By Kye Wankum, UCR Concours Co-Chair; Photo by Lucas Scarfone
MARK THE DATE!
Registration opens on Sunday, July 19th at 10pm and closes August 9th at 10pm.
UCR@PECTO!
The 2026
UCR Concours d’Élégance and Show & Shine
Sunday, August 16, 10am to 3pm
At the Porsche Experience Centre Toronto in Pickering
Presented by Porsche Canada
This year’s UCR Concours d’Élégance and Show & Shine event will be held at the exciting new Porsche Experience Centre Toronto in Pickering. Be sure to register for this amazing and rare opportunity to be part of something truly special!
TWO CATEGORIES TO CHOOSE FROM
The event will once again offer two categories to enter your car in, Show & Shine with Peer-Judging limited to 250 cars, where you and your fellow entrants will select your choice of best car in each of the 20 Porsche classes that will be represented; or Full-Concours, which is limited to 60 entries of Classic Porsches in 8 classes up to the 2012 model year, where a panel of trained UCR judges will give your car a thorough inspection and score it accordingly – a great way to learn more about your car!
GREAT PEOPLE, GORGEOUS CARS, AMAZING GROUNDS
The Concours will have a low entry fee of only $35.00 per car for the participation in the peer-judged Show & Shine category, while the entry fee for the Full-Concours category will be $50.00, which includes the general entry fee to the event.
Spectators are welcome free of charge to take in the UCR Concours but we urge you to enter your Porsche and take part in the fun! ALL participants will leave the event as winners, with a beautiful event memento and a goodie bag to take home.
DON’T BE SHY – THIS IS NOT JUST FOR GARAGE QUEENS
All Porsche models are welcome, from the 356 to the Taycan. We will also gladly accept the well-loved and blemished in the Show & Shine if they are honest and true to their origin and will have a special trophy for the best of these cars as well! However, we will not accept replica cars or other makes into the event; it must be a Porsche.
To help us plan ahead and ensure a very smooth start to the Concours event, we will offer pre-registration only, which will open up at 10:00 pm on Sunday, July 19 and close at 10:00 pm on Sunday, August 9.
FUN, FUN, FUN
This is a fun family event in a very relaxed setting, and a time to catch up with old and new Porsche friends and speak our common language: Porsche. There will be quality catering on hand to keep us happy and fed from breakfast through lunch, along with other quality amenities.
VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITIES
Full-Concours Judges
A shoutout to all previous judges and judging support volunteers (i.e. runners, timers, etc.) from previous UCR Concours events. Your help was very much appreciated, and we hope that you can join us again this year. Once again, this event provides the opportunity for new judges to come on board as well. We will train you in seminars prior to the Concours date.
At the Concours event, we provide breakfast along with a Judge’s hat and t-shirt. This is a great learning experience, along with the opportunity to meet more great people from the club!
Please contact Raffaele at: Fitfocfearless@yahoo.com. Please use “Concours 2026” in the subject line.
Don’t Want to be a Judge?
General Volunteers are also needed and very welcome at this event! We are always appreciative of our past and future volunteers and will provide breakfast, a volunteer’s t-shirt and hat, and an après-event get-together with refreshments. For details, please contact our Volunteer Captain, Gerry Cornwell at gerrycornwell@gmail.com
For more information, keep an eye on Provinz articles, UCR e-Blasts, and UCR Social Media Posts or contact Kye Wankum, Concours Event Co-Chair, at kye@kyser.ca
Another great PCA UCR event! Thank you Kye and all of the volunteers and committee for all of the effort you put in to make this event so special. The weather was amazing, the cars spectacular and the people memorable. Looking forward to 2026 already.