Our Annual September Show & Shine is the premier event of the year for car lovers in the Calgary area.

 
River City Classics Car Club has been staging this annual event since 2002. It has grown from a small beginning of a few vehicles located in George Lane Park to its current status where the Show takes over the whole of Downtown High River.
 
It isn’t unusual to see over 1100 vehicles and 50 vendors set up for the last Sunday in September. Access to Downtown is restricted on Show Day so vendors have become accustomed to arriving the evening before and locating their trailers.
 
Cars begin to arrive at “Front End Registration” as early as 6:00 am even though official opening is 7:00 am. Thanks to a hardy group of volunteers we are able to process the arrivals and get them to a parking space efficiently.
 
Parking for the Show is directed by our Parking Volunteers and is on a first come, first served basis. Sorry but we aren’t able to accommodate reserved parking locations.
 
Weather at the end of September is often chilly in the early morning while later in the day it can be very pleasant. We have been fortunate over the years and can report plenty of Alberta sunshine gracing our Show.
 
Vehicle Admission provides access to our Show area for your vehicle, and for the first 1000 vehicles, it means a commemorative dash plaque.
 
Starting in 2016 the River City Classics instituted a “Burn-Out” Night the evening before the Show. If you want to burn a little bit of rubber, in First gear only, then come out and register for the Burn-Out. In 2016 the Town of High River and the High River RCMP Detachment graciously allowed us to close Centre Street just north of 12th Ave. In the space of 5 long blocks we were able to create three burn-out staging areas. Participants, under guidance from our Volunteers, were able to get in as many 100 Ft runs as they could in a 2 hour period.
 
Close the Summer Show Season with River City Classics Car Club!!
 

Mark your calendars for the last weekend in September and join us in High River

 
If you have any questions, use the Contact Us link on the web site Menu or e-mail your query directly to our showchair@rivercityclassics.ca
 
 

Thanks to all who participated in the Canada Day Show. I believe that we had a total of 81 entries for the Canada 150 Event.
 
All proceeds from the event were donated to Rowan House Women’s Shelter.
 
Here’s a few images provided by Lillian Shavalier. You might have noticed her moving around the field on her hover-board powered mobile lawn chair. Oh yes… and you might have noticed her outrageous, long, red and white eyelashes.
 

May 5 and 6 saw RCC participate in another successful High River Trade Fair

This year’s event was again held at the Snodgrass Recreation Centre in High River. Ted Dawson coordinated our entry with support from Club volunteers.
 
The highlight of RCC’s entry were definitely the two vehicles. Al Millard provided his newly acquired Ford Model T, mid-door sedan and Roger Hamel his beautifully updated red pick-up.
 

Ted has participated in the event on many occasions and described the value returned to the Club through the visibility and recognition we gain with the general public.
 
Conversations at the event gave our volunteers an opportunity to describe our goals as a Club and our annual donation to local High River charities.
 

Pictured here are a few of the volunteers who spent Saturday morning at the RCC booth.
 
From the left, Al Millard, Dave Dobson, Vic Giguere, Gerri Giguere, and Al Leonhardt.
 

On December 5, 2016 River City Classics Car Club presented a total of $10,000 to local High River Charities.

 
Jeff Langford, our President, speaking on behalf of all Club Members, pointed out that the difficult 2016 economy had not deterred RCC from donating the same amount to Charities as we did in 2015.
 

2016 Charities

 
He indicated that this is largely due to the hard work and dedication of our Members who put on a very successful Show ‘n Shine in September.
 
Donations were made to 18 individual High River groups.
 
We were very pleased to welcome a representative from 17 of those groups to our regular monthly meeting for the presentation.
 

2016 Charities