September Events

September Events

September is another busy month of events including at least one auction, many swap meets, two concours and many car shows throughout the Northwest and western Canada.

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The week­end of Sept 6–8 includes the ever pop­u­lar Wheels ‘N’ Waves (5–7) at down­town Sea­side, OR plus your choice of two events over the 7th and 8th — the 30th Rod Run to the End of the World with 800 cars at the tip of Wash­ing­ton’s longest penin­su­la, at  Ocean Park, WA. Amer­i­can Graf­fi­ti Trib­ute with cars from the movie and Can­dy Clark  “Deb­bie Durham”  will be on the field as a spe­cial guest.

Sept 8 is the  11th Annu­al Kirk­land Con­cours at LeMay Muse­um in Taco­ma, WA.

 

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As it cel­e­brates its 11th anniver­sary, the Kirk­land Con­cours d’Elegance begins it’s sec­ond year on Sept 8 at the LeMay – America’s Car Muse­um, in Taco­ma. Fea­tur­ing a nine-acre cam­pus – with a four-sto­ry muse­um as the cen­ter­piece – LeMay-ACM, in the shad­ow of Mt. Rainier 30 min­utes south of Seat­tle, is one of the world’s largest auto muse­ums. This fam­i­ly-ori­ent­ed event is regard­ed as one of the pre­mier con­cours events in the coun­try. READ MORE in Fea­tured Events.

 

Also on the Sept 7–8 is British Columbi­a’s extrav­a­gan­za event, the LUXURY & SUPERCAR WEEKEND which includes Shaugh­nessy Con­cours d’Elegance

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For the fourth time in Cana­da this lifestyle week­end is the Nation’s finest two day out­door show­ing of Lux­u­ry & Super­cars. The 2013 event once again offers a unique up-close and per­son­al oppor­tu­ni­ty to view the world’s most impor­tant exam­ples of auto­mo­tive achievements.
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Each car on dis­play is hand­picked by the Con­cours d‘Elegance selec­tion com­mit­tee. Auto­mo­tive enthu­si­asts of rare lux­u­ry super­cars, vin­tage col­lectibles, electric/hybrid and con­cept cars will get the chance to view auto­mo­biles that are nor­mal­ly dis­played only at select elite inter­na­tion­al auto­mo­tive events.

READ MORE in Fea­tured Events.

 

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Oth­er events on Sept 7 include the 11th Annu­al Seward (AK) Car Show, the Crow Car Show in Eugene, OR,  the Ore­gon High Desert Swap Meet and Car Show in Red­mond, OR; Wheels on the Water­front in Everett, WA

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and with new loca­tion and date, the 2nd Annu­al Union Ride & Char­i­ty Ral­ly in Ren­ton, WA which also fea­tures the first and only Seat­tle Sea­hawk motor­cy­cle build.

 

 

Edmonds Classic

 

On Sept 8, Eugene, OR hosts the Con­cours d’El­e­gance on the Green and down­town Edmonds, WA hosts the annu­al favorite Edmonds Clas­sic Car Show.

 

 

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The week­end of Sept 13–15 in Bend, OR is Ore­gon Fes­ti­val of Cars cel­e­brat­ing many won­der­ful anniver­saries of favorite mar­ques… the 50th for Porsche 911 and Lam­borgh­i­ni, the 60th anniver­sary for Corvette and the 100th for Aston Mar­tin!  Includes a Sun­day “dash” drive.

 

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The Salem Auto Club Coun­cil’s Mount Angel Okto­ber­fest Cruz-N-Car Show in Mt. Angel, OR (503 588 1932) and two near­by events in con­trast mar­ques — the Apple Val­ley Volk­swa­gen Ass­n’s Volks­fest 2013 in Mox­ee, WA and the Ponies in the Sun Car Show in Yaki­ma, WA.

 

 

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Sin­gle day events on the 14th range from the High Plains Clas­sics Car Show in Miles City, MT (406 951 1807), the 4th Annu­al Cruise to His­toric Down­town Ore­gon City, OR;  while in Wash­ing­ton, on the 14th, are the stu­dent-com­mu­ni­ty Renais­sance Auto Show host­ed by the Aberdeen High School Renais­sance Team. (Ed. note: Last minute word: the Renais­sance Show has been cancelled)

 

Arlington Drag Reunion

 

Also on the 14th, the infa­mous Arling­ton (WA) Drag Strip Reunion & Car Show at the airport;

 

 

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The pop­u­lar  Auto Angels 7th Annu­al Ben­e­fit Car Show, Belle­vue, WA, in addi­tion a bevy of clas­sics, mus­cle and oth­er col­lec­tor cars on Sept 14, the show will have fea­ture two groups. A dis­play of Belle­vue High School Auto Pro­gram fea­tur­ing seniors who have com­plet­ed this pro­gram and pass the ASE test and then are qual­i­fied to go direct­ly into work for a car deal­er or oth­er auto­mo­tive business.

The sec­ond inter­est­ing group is a Team from the UW Mechan­i­cal Engi­neer­ing pro­gram and the SAE com­pe­ti­tion will be bring­ing at least one of their cars.  One car was tak­en to Ger­many for the Inter­na­tion­al Com­pe­ti­tion and placed 7th and 1st place at the FSAE com­pe­ti­tion in Lin­coln NE..  This is the gas pow­ered car, referred to as the cCar.  READ MORE in Stu­dent Cars.

 

Sep 14 - Chelan, WA; Fall in Lake Chelan Car Show & Cruise by the Lak­ers Car Club, of course.

The Stra­tocruis­ers hold their Cruise Into Fall in down­town Enum­claw, WA; while the NW GTO Leg­ends offer up the newest North­west show — Amer­i­can Mus­cle Car Show at Gri­ots Garage, Taco­ma, WA

 

West Seattle

Sun­day, the 15th — in Eagle, ID, the 2nd Annu­al Shriner’s Run for Chil­dren for bik­ers and in Belling­ham, WA,  it’s the Speed and Chrome Show at Hill­crest Chapel (360 220 3578) and the West Seat­tle Junc­tion Car Show at the cen­ter of it all in, of course, West Seat­tle neighborhood.

 

Goldendale

The Sept 21 week­end con­tin­ues to be busy with Gold­en­dale, WA’s Fes­ti­val of Wheels (watch for their Con­cours d’ Mary­hill in Octo­ber); Kit­sap Coun­ty’s Key­port Fest Show and Shine in Key­port, WA

Spokane Valleyand across the state in Spokane Val­ley, WA the Val­leyfest Car Show.

Sept 21 also includes the Brack­et­stars Block Par­ty Rod­ders  Appre­ci­a­tion Free Car Show as part of Gator Fest at Green Riv­er Com­mu­ni­ty Col­lege in Auburn.WA.

 

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For farm equip­ment enthu­si­asts and great fam­i­ly fun, there are two events: Lux­ton Antique Farm Equip­ment Club Annu­al Swap Meet in Lang­ford, BC on Sept 21, and the two-day Trac­tor Pull and Swap Meet on Sept 21–22 near Port Orchard, WA.

 

 

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At Coos Bay-North Bend, OR  the Cruz the Coos/Shore Acres Show n’ Shine on Sept 21 (this is new date) and SOVREN’s vin­tage rac­ing winds up the year at Pacif­ic Race­ways on Sept 21–22 with the Fall Finale Vin­tage Sports Car Races.

 

GVMPS

 

The final events of Sep­tem­ber are the Greater Van­cou­ver Motor Sports Pio­neer Soci­ety’s Induc­tion Cer­e­mo­ny who rec­og­nize the con­tri­bu­tions of those who were pio­neers of motor­sport in west­ern Cana­da — held in Sur­rey, BC on Sept 28

 

Of spe­cial note to Ore­gon car enthu­si­asts and Mer­cury own­ers & fans:

The Her­itage (OR) Car Show is on and start­ing its sec­ond decade at the park in his­toric down­town Mon­mouth, just west of Inde­pen­dence, OR, off Hiway 99. The date is still Sept. 28 from 11:00–4:00 pm. “Mer­cury — the Lost Mar­que” is fea­ture car.  Call 503 949 8751 or email: nwbp1@q.com

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and on the oth­er end of the gen­er­a­tion spec­trum, the Ever­green Speed­way wel­comes inMo­tion Car Show & Drift Event also on Sept 28 with an Indoor/Outdoor Car Show plus Com­pe­ti­tion Pro-Am Drift Event

 

 

 

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