The busiest month of the car show season is July, and it’s not just the weekends.

July 10 opens the Graffiti Weekend in Roseburg, OR with a potpourri of activities:

 

Rose­burg’s first Graf­fi­ti Night Cruise took place on July 10, 1982.  The Umpqua Flat­heads Car Club were at the A & W, the Stray Angels Car Club were at Pete”s Dri­ve-In and the Tim­ber­land Corvettes sold Graf­fi­ti Night T‑shirts. Richard Dick­man had the bright idea that it might be fun to relive the 50’s with a cruise down Har­vard. He men­tioned this to sev­er­al of the car clubs, who all thought that it could be a great thing to do. A date was set. Fly­ers were sent to the car clubs in the sur­round­ing area. Both restau­rants helped with the costs. Any year and type of vehi­cle could cruise and there was no entry fee. The turnout (vehi­cles and spec­ta­tors) was beyond all expectation.

 

Over the years these two events have grown to the 15 that will be held this year. Rose­burg Graf­fi­ti Week­end is unique in sev­er­al ways; each event is the respon­si­bil­i­ty of a dif­fer­ent group, the events take place in var­i­ous loca­tions through­out the greater Rose­burg area, most of the events are free and most of the events are planned for fam­i­ly enjoy­ment.  Graf­fi­ti Week­end begins July 10 and runs through 14. See the com­plete sched­ule.

 

While enjoy­ing Rose­burg’s Graf­fi­ti Week­end, take in Petersen’s Col­lec­tor Car Auc­tion at the Dou­glas Coun­ty Fair­grounds. Hun­dred plus cars cross­ing the block. You can sell yours and buy anoth­er or add to your col­lec­tion at Petersen Col­lec­tor Car Auc­tion on July 12–13

 

Spokane Fair & Expo Cen­ter is the place to be on July 12, 13, 14 for one of east­ern Washington’s largest and old­est auto­mo­tive and col­lectible swap meets.  The 43^rd Annu­al Spokane Swap Meet, host­ed by the Ear­ly Ford V8 Club of the Inland Empire, also fea­tures a busy Sat­ur­day, the 13^th, that includes the 11^th Annu­al  Show & Shine, a Sil­ver Auc­tion, and the con­tin­u­ing swap meet.

 

This is a traffic jam you’ll want to be a part of — the WAAAM Traffic Jam

 

 

Air­planes and auto­mo­biles are linked in so many ways through­out his­to­ry. Enjoy the week­end of July 12–13 in Hood Riv­er, OR ‑at West­ern Antique Aero­plane & Auto­mo­bile Muse­um for the WAAAM Traf­fic Jam. The muse­um expe­ri­ence plus food, fun, music and of course, the car show. Sock hop, cruise and movie on Fri­day night. Don’t miss the Mod­el T Quick Build Chal­lenge, vin­tage kid­die ped­al cars.

 

Anoth­er mul­ti-day event on July 12–14 takes you to Leth­bridge, AB for the Street Machine Week­end fea­tur­ing Show N’Shine, 100′ Dash (in your car, of course!), the Ulti­mate Street Car Chal­lenge, Auto-Cross and much fun. Host­ed by the Street Wheel­ers Car Club.

One of the largest Mustang gatherings in America returns to Bellevue, WA on July 18–21

 33rd Annu­al Mus­tang Roundup begins on Thursday,July 18 with a 2.25 road course event at Pacif­ic Race­ways lim­it­ed to only 80 Ford-pow­ered vehi­cles fol­lowed on the 19th by Pony Trails, a scenic, back-road cruise with oth­er Mus­tang and Ford enthu­si­asts. Sat­ur­day, the 20th is the MCA Region­al Judged Show plus the Casi­no Night Ban­quet fol­lowed on Sun­day by the Peo­ple’s Choice Car Show and All-Ford Pic­nic open to all Fords from dri­vers to con­cours. Belle­vue Col­lege. 425 239 3609.

 

Grande Ronde-A-View Week­end Car Show on July 12–14 fea­tures Fri­day Street Dance, Sat­ur­day Car Show, Pok­er Cruise and din­ner with a Sun­day cruise around the Grande Ronde Val­ley, all in La Grande, Or all host­ed by the Union Coun­ty Tim­ber Cruis­ers Car Club.

Neigh­bor­ing towns and a con­trast in wheels on July 13: if con­cours are your style, enjoy the Con­cours d’El­e­gance at The Wood Clas­sic, Sports and Mus­cle Cars at Lyn­nwood, WA , but if you pre­fer basic rods, then the Marysville, WA’s  Rodz on 3rd may be more to your lik­ing. Close enough to do both in same day.

Ore­go­ni­ans note — wor­thy of your sup­port is the Sec­ond Annu­al Vet­er­ans & Fam­i­ly Cen­ter Cruise In on July 13 in Beaver­ton, OR.  360 580 7941. 

 

 

Inland North­west Car Club Coun­cil Down­town Schol­ar­ship Car Show in down­town Spokane is famous for its evening of fun on River­side Avenue. More impor­tant­ly, the 60 clubs and indi­vid­u­als who make up the Inland North­west Car Club Coun­cil have raised over $ 197,750 dol­lars to pro­vide schol­ar­ships for 164 stu­dents since the found­ing of the Schol­ar­ship Fund. This year, $ 22,500 has just been award­ed to fif­teen stu­dents from the pro­ceeds of last year’s show. Show hours are from 6:00–9:30 pm. 509 981 7480 or 509 844 8428
Speak­ing of Cruise Nights, check out the Coun­cils ros­ter of Cruise Nights in and around Spokane.

 

Please Note: Jul 15–17 — Leth­bridge, AB; Tour to Deuce Days -Leth­bridge to Vic­to­ria CANCELLED for 2013. Check back for 2014.

 

Spring­field Cruz.  2013 it will be July 19 & 20th (Fri. and Sat) fol­lowed by Mopar Nation­als (Sun)

The week­end of July 19–21 includes a vari­ety of shows from the Spring­field Cruz in Spring­field, OR and the Mopar Naton­als in near­by Wood­burn, OR; the Euro­pean Clas­sic Car Meet in beau­ti­ful Stan­ley Park, Cal­gary, AB; while the Bee­tles and Vans take over var­i­ous venues on July 19–21 in the Seat­tle area. Cruis­es, show, and swap meet for the NW Vin­tage Volk­swa­gen Week­end, all host­ed by the Cas­cade Kom­bis. (See a great sto­ry & pho­tos by Ter­ry Parkhurst, too, at his weblog about VWs.

 

Stroll the beau­ti­ful cam­pus of Pacif­ic Uni­ver­si­ty on July 21 for the more than 300 antique, clas­sic, sport, race, mod­i­fied and col­lec­tor cars from sev­er­al eras of auto­mo­tive his­to­ry at the ele­gant For­est Grove Con­cours d’El­e­gance. This is the 41st edi­tion of the con­cours and includes music, wine, beer gar­den and fine food. Ben­e­fits local stu­dent schol­ar­ships. Enjoy live musi­cal enter­tain­ment, a beer gar­den, a wine pavil­ion and fine food. Net pro­ceeds from this pre­mier event help fund stu­dent schol­ar­ships and com­mu­ni­ty ser­vice projects.

 

The last week­end of July 27–28 includes the West­ern Wash­ing­ton All British Field Meet; the Goodguys 26th PNW Nation­als, and two events at Antique Pow­er­land in Brooks, Or — the Vin­tage Vehi­cle Show Dur­ing Steam-UP plus the Ore­gon John Deere Two-Cylin­der Club 25th Anniver­sary Show.
A rein­car­nat­ed tra­di­tion of Ital­ian mar­ques focus­es on “Cel­e­brat­ing 50 years of Lam­borgh­i­ni and all things Ital­ian” with the Ital­ian Con­cours d’El­e­gance — July 28 from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Car­il­lon Point just south of Kirk­land, WA’s down­town. Admis­sion is only $5.00 for spec­ta­tors to enjoy the finest Ital­ian auto­mo­biles in a prime loca­tion.  425 773 0130; bills@amisllc.com.  Across town the Leg­ends Car Club hosts the annu­al Kirk­land Annu­al Clas­sic Car Show. There’s time to enjoy both with only a short dis­tance between shows.

Check back weekly through the sum­mer for addi­tions – and see all of July events on our MONTHLY list – with Updates for can­cel­la­tions, cor­rec­tions and addi­tions on UPDATES

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