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Start up your engines and get on down to the Danville Hot Summer Nights Hot Rod and Classic Car Show occurring from 4 to 9 p.m. tonight and Aug. 15 in downtown Danville.
More than 400-450 show cars are expected to be displayed at the car show, along with 15,000 guests on the street, as the show is held for the 19th year.
This year’s event will honor the Chevrolet Corvette and allow all Corvettes to be displayed, even up to the year 2013. This is the 60th anniversary of the Corvette, and all the Corvette clubs have been contacted for their members to participate.
David Miller, one of the show’s producers and judge of the Best Car contest, promises that the new Chevrolet Corvette honor will be memorable.
“It will be an exciting anniversary date in automotive history,” Miller said.
Otherwise, the hot rods and classics will go up to and through the year 1976, with many muscle cars from the 1960s.
“This year, the Blackhawk Museum will display a surprise car from their museum at Diablo Road on July 18,” Miller said.
Twenty car owners will be presented with “Town Choice Awards,” engraved plaques as a way of the organizers saying thanks to them for bringing their cars to Danville.
Entertainment will include DJ Dave playing live music at Linda Mesa and Hartz avenues for people to dance in the streets. For children, “Tank the 100-pound tortoise” will be eating vegetables on Linda Mesa.
Rose Marie Band and The Hot Rod Band will play in the Primo’s parking lot on Hartz and Diablo Road on both show dates.
Food booths will be selling hot dogs and sausages, pulled pork and gourmet popcorn from Cornology, as well as snow cones.
Premiere sponsors will also be at the events with their newest automobiles: Stead Cadillac, Walnut Creel Ford, Walnut Creek-Jeep Chrysler- Dodge, Dublin Toyota, Niello Infinity, and My Hot Cars — Classic and Hot Rod Sales Specialists.
For more information on Danville Hot Summer Nights, visit: www.danvillehotsummernightscarshow.com.
Looking forward to the car show. Will be nice to take our grand daughter and daughter-in-law to all the fun. Sounds like a very special evening with the good music and all.
I liked it better when there were more…but I’ll take two!
THANK YOU to the organizers and exhibitors.
Went to a similar show recently in Iowa, and thoroughly enjoyed it. One big difference: they still allow you to walk around with beer or wine (they had to be in plastic bottles or cups) while looking at the cars. My wife and I remember when the same was allowed at our show, and it’s too bad the policy was changed. But here’s the twist: we still partially blame the police for this change, and their strategy (or lack there-if) of patrolling the event. We remember walking the entire show, how crowded it was, but in particular how all the police were in “groups” (seemed like 7-8 in each group) in only two places – laughing and talking and having a “good time” themselves. At the very end of the street, we saw one of the fights, with no police anywhere to be seen! If they had stationed two cops “teams”…and have them in explicit spots to stay, we’re sure the fights would NOT have occurred. Not only my wife and I, but our neighbors all agree (we luve within walking distance to downtown) that with better planning on THEIR part, we would still be able to enjoy the event like the days in the past. (…the bottom line is that a few bad apples had to ruin what was once an very enjoyable show)
So glad I just moved…no more drunken drivers down Camino T or drunken fools on the sidewalks to put up with. Drinking and car shows are sooo yesterday and tacky to boot.