Up to 400 car buffs and their classic automobiles are revving up for the second annual “Hot Autumn Nights” from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 7 in downtown Edmonds.
The annual car show features classy cars, rods and trucks, plus food, fun, and free family entertainment during the day followed by dancing in the evening. Last year’s inaugural “Hot Autumn Nights” drew more than 5,000 car enthusiasts and more are expected this year.
Cars will be on display around the fountain area at Fifth and Main, with all the attractions of Edmonds’ popular Summer Market nearby.
The show has a dozen judging classes, including stock cars and trucks, muscle cars, modified, custom, and special interest vehicles, and ultra classics. Judges will award prizes to Best of Class cars and Best of Show. Community awards, sponsor awards, participant awards and surprise fun awards will also be given. All awards will be presented after 3 p.m. at Dayton Place, near Fourth and Dayton. In addition, participants can win door prizes donated by local sponsors all day long.
While strolling and surveying the cars, visitors can have an Edmonds kind of day, enjoy a fabulous meal in a local restaurant, shop downtown Edmonds and at sponsors’ booths, buy a “Hot Autumn Nights” T-shirt, or lick an ice cream cone by the downtown fountain.
At Dayton Place, the KBSG stage will be playing oldies all day, and there will plenty of family fun, including a hulahoop competition, a bubble gum blowing contest, and a pie-eating contest. Booths will be offering food and beverages all day, including Scotty’s prize-winning blackened salmon Caesar salad and Ziegler’s bratwurst and curly fries. To go with the bratwurst, Gallagher’s Where-U-Brew will be supplying the beer.
Dancing under the stars (admission is free) begins at 6 p.m. at Dayton Place to hits of the ’50 s, ’60’s and ’70’s played live by the “New Blues Brothers.” Based on the original Belushi/Ackroyd Blues Brothers, this band of nine musicians has been a local fair and festival favorite for nearly two decades.
The Greater Edmonds Chamber of Commerce is presenting “Hot Autumn Nites” with the support of “Oldies” radio KBSG 97.3 and other sponsors, including the Enterprise Newspapers, Final Touch Detail, Lund’s Office Essentials, R/B Obsolete supplies, Dickison Insurance Agency, Thoroughbred Collision Centers, OFC, Action Autoparts and Machines, Girardi’s restaurant, Napa Auto Parts, Queen City Plating, and Nash Chiropractic.
Event chair Jim Meisenburg is assisted by event coordinator Bill Lund and car show coordinator Bruce Nickolson.
To register your pre-1972 car in the show, contact Bruce or Elaine Nickolson at 425-771-8475 or see the Chamber website at Edmondswa.com. More information about Hot Autumn Nites is available from the website and also from the Edmonds Visitor Information Center at 425-776-6711.
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