Wrap Up and Awards for the 2024 Historic Downtown Campbell Car Show!

The 2024 Historic Downtown Campbell Car Show is in the books! We hope you enjoyed attending it as much as we did hosting it. We've got awards from the show for you and other things to announce. There were seven prize categories with a custom trophy awarded to the best car in each group as selected by our panel of judges.

Best Truck - Rick Heinrich - 1951 Ford 3100
Best Muscle Car - David Fernandez - 1972 Chevrolet Chevelle
Best Street Machine - Gary Schuitemaker - 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle
Best Hot Rod - Ben Seward - 1956 Chevy Nomad
Best Import - Art Gabriel - 1973 BMW 2002
Staff Pick Award - Jaime Huerta - 1971 Buick Riviera
Best in Show - Speedtech Motorsports, Kevin Moore - 1935 Ford 3 Window Coupe

Scroll down to view photos of the winners.

Thank you to all of you who entered your car into our second juried car show. After a very well received, but more modestly sized first event in 2023, we came back in our second year with a larger event that added over 100 cars to the 160 that were entered the previous year. We also added two new award categories this year for Best Street Machine and a Staff's Pick Award.

Our second show was by all measures everything we had hoped for with one exception. If you were there and you thought the show ended earlier than it was supposed to, you're right. A couple of of the car show entrants broke some car show rules and caused the Campbell Police Department to call off the show 45 minutes early for safety reasons. We'll have more car shows. Those two will never again be a part of them.

Regardless, even with an awkward ending, it was a great show and you can flip through our official event photos if you missed it. It was no easy effort. A small army of volunteers were needed with many showing up as early as 6am to help prepare for the day. Thank you massively to all of our dedicated helpers who helped us pull this off. We couldn't have done it without you.

While we're thanking our volunteer teams, please remember that this car show and most of the events that happen in Downtown Campbell are entirely run by volunteers who contribute countless hours of their time to make things happen. Some of them put in hundreds of hours a year.

In no particular order, some of the tireless people who made this show happen this year were:

Mike Van Sant (The Olive Bar)
Amy Taylor (Cloud City Supply)
Carol Pouya (Tessora's Barra di Vino)
Brooke Ramirez (Bombshell Boutique)
Michael Sanders (Home Church)
Sheldon Chang (Social Wave)

There are countless others that we're leaving out, but we also like to give a special mention to Campbell Auto Restoration and High Performance Center for donating prizes and donating their expertise to our judging and review process and Campbell CERT for some extra hands and needed equipment.

T-Shirts

We only have a limited number of XXL and up sizes left. If you'd like to get one, call The Olive Bar at (408) 370-1901 and ask about sizes and availability.