Heffman Posted June 14, 2004 Share Posted June 14, 2004 I was wondering if anyone knew what/where the biggest classic car shows in the U.S. are? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Chuck Conrad Posted June 14, 2004 Share Posted June 14, 2004 You just missed the CCCA Grand Classic and Experience in Hickory Corners, MI. It's always the first weekend of June and well worth visiting. There are a couple of hundred cars in the Museum, and the shows had about 90 CCCA Full Classics on Saturday. There were well over 100 cars for the Experience on Sunday.Assuming you are defining Classic Cars by the CCCA definition, then Meadowbrook (Detroit area) or Pebble Beach are two of the biggest and best. Of course, they show cars that are not CCCA Classics as well. Most CCCA Grand Classics have between 40 and 80 Classics. They are intentionally not huge events, but the quality is always very high.If you want to just see tons of old cars, Classics and others, the AACA National Meet in Hershey, PA is hard to beat. This year, it's the week of October 6-8. There are usually about 1800 cars on the judging Field on Saturday, and hundreds for sale in the car corral. Add a few thousand vendor booths in swap meet, and a couple of major league auctions, and it is possible to nearly overdose on old cars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest normandie Posted June 17, 2004 Share Posted June 17, 2004 I don't believe it's "the biggest," but one of the finest car shows featuring foreign and domestic Classics, antiques and sports cars is the Glenmoor Gathering of Significant Automobiles. It's held at Glenmoor Country Club near Canton, OH. The 2004 dates are September 18-19. A great setting and great cars. Check their web site at www.glenmoorgathering.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Chuck Conrad Posted June 20, 2004 Share Posted June 20, 2004 Although our cars are quite often "bigger" <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> our shows aren't always huge. But I'll take quality over quantity. That's one of the unique attributes of CCCA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samb2 Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 Come to Västerås in Sweden the first weekend in July. Then theres a real old american car show. Over 10.000 (ten thousand) old american cars, 4km of selling boards, and people, people people... (and beer)! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gearboy Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 Samb2 -- For those of us Yanks unwilling to bolt pontoons on our Packards, would you post a few photos of this Swedish extravaganza? Thanks! [color:\\"black\\"] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Idle Swede Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 Just to clarify, when he mentions "Old Cars" they are mostly from the 60's & 70's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samb2 Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 I didnt mean that this is SOMETHING compared to over there! But its the biggest in Europe and diffrent cars from 60's back (few from 70's). Very nice meeting. I was there this year too but without camera. Cars like is there you can see on our clubs homepage. Most from our summer meet for One week ago.http://www.geocities.com/raggarklubben/htm/side.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samb2 Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 I said it was europes biggest meet - but it is the worlds biggest!Take a look at www.powermeet.com (everything in english) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samb2 Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 I'm crazy!!!!!!!!!!!Heres the adress:http://www.bigmeet.com/Comments? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gearboy Posted August 13, 2004 Share Posted August 13, 2004 Samb2 --- This is a site for fans of the finer cars of 1925-42 (and a few unchanged, carryover [color:\\"black\\"] exceptions through '48). So it looks like your event's a mite new for us. I thought, out of "10,000 cars," we might've seen a few prewar survivors. It's always nice to see how 60-80-year-old genuine Classics have survived around the world. I've sold parts to owners of Full Classic Packards in Scandinavia. All best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samb2 Posted August 13, 2004 Share Posted August 13, 2004 Nice cars - but almost wrong place.... I see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Chuck Conrad Posted August 14, 2004 Share Posted August 14, 2004 <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> I was in Stockholm on the 21st of June one year. That?s the longest day of the year and quite a national holiday in Sweden. It seemed like EVERYBODY was driving some kind of collectable vehicle. Admittedly 50?s & 60?s American cars were predominant, but, there was no shortage of cars that qualify as CCCA Full Classics. Better yet, most of them were being driven by people who looked like they were having a great time. It was wonderful viewing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samb2 Posted August 19, 2004 Share Posted August 19, 2004 Nice to hear.I think that there was a "Cruising" for that kind of cars that weekend.As you said most of them are 50-60's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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