Event Alert: October Calendar of Automotive Events
October means Halloween to many, but to car people it also means Tokyo, The Chase, ALMS at Laguna Seca and the home stretch for IndyCar and Formula 1. There are also a bunch of Fall cruises, meets and concours, so the old car crowd won't be left out this month either.
Foremost on that list are two events we'll be at again this year, the 27th Annual Concours d' Elegance at The St. Regis in Dana Point, California, and the Wings Wheels Rotors & Expo in Los Alamitos. There's also Sportscar Vintage Racing Association at New Jersey Motorsports Park, Japanese Classic Car Show, Circle Yer Wagens, Scarsdale Concours, One Love Weekend, Vintage Rallies Mountain Mille, VRG Vintage Races at Watkins Glen, 2009 All-Pontiac Show, Super Stang Fest 2009, Vettes at the Village, Micro & Minicar Cruise at Bear Mountain, and the Hilton Head Island Concours d'Elegance to close out the month.
There will be auction action too, with Barrett-Jackson in Las Vegas, Vintage Motor Cars of Hershey by RM, and gigantic Classic Car Auction of Toronto. Motorsports fans are in for some late-season championship action with Formula 1 making visits to Suzuka and Brazil, ALMS at Laguna Seca, the IndyCar finale at Homestead, and NASCAR making four stops as The Chase continues - Kansas, Fontana, Charlotte and Martinsville.
Besides the ever-shrinking Tokyo Motor Show, there are also going to be a regional show in Anaheim, but Americans will have to wait until Los Angeles in December to get most of the European and Asian debuts from Frankfurt and Tokyo.
If none of those events appeal to you, check the Google Calendar after the jump for even more listings, all with detailed info and links. And please use the comments section to add or modify listings.
As always, we want to give a shout-out to our two favorite sources; The New York Times automotive calendar for national and international stuff, and our buddy Dave Lindsay's SoCalCarCulture pages for local stuff here in Southern California. Dave's photographic coverage of these local events is fantastic. Check out this month's event calendar below and start adding to it by leaving us a note in the comments.
OCTOBER 2009
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Will 10:07AM (10/01/2009)
Don't forget Eurofest at the BMW plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina. October 16-18.
http://www.euroautofestival.com/
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Chris 10:20AM (10/01/2009)
Don't forget the Northwood Auto Show in Midland, MI Oct 2nd-4th (biggest outdoor new-car auto show in the world, I believe).
http://www.northwood.edu/autoshow/
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Venom 2:13PM (10/01/2009)
Northwood show is the best.
See you there Saturday.
Jruhi4 10:40AM (10/01/2009)
Arguably the top "Tier 2" Auto Show in the U.S., the South Florida International Auto Show certainly deserves a mention (it runs 23 October-1 November this year):
http://www.sfliautoshow.com/
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Chris Ice 11:11AM (10/01/2009)
Alameda All Italian Car and Motorcycle Show
October 11, 2009
Alameda, CA
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Chris Ice 11:12AM (10/01/2009)
http://www.doudna.com/aid/aid2009.html
Sixt9coug 12:08PM (10/01/2009)
I used to work directly next to the Army air base in Los Alamitos where the Wings Wheels and Rotors show is held. It was always an interesting experience sitting down, eating lunch and all of a sudden having the whole building vibrate and shake because a jet is taking off or coming in for a landing. It was pretty sick seeing some of the machines that flew in and out of there. Makes you wonder how people will whine about living near commercial air traffic yet there are homes within a 1/4 mile of this military base and these planes are SERIOUSLY loud and nobody says anything.
Ive never been to that show yet, perhaps this year will change that.
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sandler 2:29PM (10/01/2009)
How did they miss the world's largest collectible auto show in Hershey, PA next week? It's only been around for like 30 years...
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lydianor 2:28PM (10/08/2009)
Which event do you recommend the most?
I want to take my husband to one of them ´cause he´s a big car fan.
I've been searching for documents about automotive and I found this site: Yellow documents
Cheers,
Lyd
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