Fall festivities at the Gilmore Car Museum
Though the weather is starting to cool, the Gilmore Car Museum is heating up with fall festivities.
Hickory Corners, Mich. - As students settle into a new school year and we enjoy the last of our lake days, the museum is busy planning a fall season of festivities for all of our friends to enjoy. Wrapping up the final stretch of Wednesday Night Cruise-Ins and summer car shows is always bittersweet, but we still have so much to look forward to this year.
Join the Gilmore for Wednesday Night Cruise-In on September 20 for their movie night fundraiser, presented by Harding’s Friendly Markets & Our Family. They're showing Ford v. Ferrari in celebration of the Ford GT40 Mk II from the film, currently on display in our Supercars Then & Now exhibit in the main gallery. Admission is FREE, so grab your favorite sweatshirt and come enjoy the film surrounded by friends and fall foliage.
Cruise-In starts at 5:00 PM with the film beginning at 7:30 PM. Bring your own chairs and blankets, but please leave the snacks to the museum! While admission to movie night is free to the public, this is a museum fundraiser so we ask that you purchase snacks at the event. We’ll have popcorn, hot dogs, candy, soda, and even drinks from the bar all available for purchase.
The Gilmore wills till have a few more car shows left on the calendar for September. Each show runs from 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, and the Blue Moon Diner, Heritage Cafe and Tailgate Bar will all be open serving food and drinks:
- Ultimate Truck Show: Saturday, September 9
- Vintage pickups, heavy duty trucks, EMS vehicles, semis & more
- Reptile display from Critchlow Alligator Sanctuary
- Helicopter landing & school bus extraction demonstrations
- Kids’ interactive activities, games & live DJ
- Swap meet
- Ford Model A Days: Friday, September 15 & Saturday, September 16
- Friday Driving Tour
- Technical & fashion seminars
- Model A Driving School & “Ride the A’s” campus tours
- Model A swap meet
- Live jazz band
- Cadillac Fall Festival: Friday, September 22 & Saturday, September 23
- ALL GM makes and models welcome
- No pre-registration required
- Vintage car rides around campus
- Garage sale on Friday, September 22
It wouldn’t be fall at Gilmore Car Museum without DeutscheMarques Oktoberfest! They can hardly wait to welcome guests back to campus for this annual celebration of German heritage on Saturday, October 14. The German Car Color Tour takes off at 9:30 AM and the Beer Hall is open from 11:30 AM - 4:00 PM for German beer, food, and entertainment from the DeutscheMarques Oom-Pah band. Don’t forget your lederhosen - the Costume Contest will have trophies for best traditional-dressed gentleman, lady, and child.
For show registration, additional information, or to view the full season schedule, visit them at www.GilmoreCarMuseum.org, call (269) 671-5089 or email info@gilmorecarmuseum.org.
About Gilmore Car Museum - The world-renowned Gilmore Car Museum – North America’s largest auto museum with more than 400 vehicles on display -- is located midway between Chicago and Detroit, just 20 minutes north of Kalamazoo, or 45 minutes south of Grand Rapids. The museum is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, whose mission is to tell the history of America through the automobile. Learn more at GilmoreCarMuseum.org
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