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The 15th Annual Classic Car Cruise-In roars into town on Saturday, August 26, 2017. New this year, the show will take place in the evening from 2 pm to 8 pm. Also new this year will be the ability to purchase alcohol which must be kept inside the designated beer/wine garden.

There will be a variety of food trucks and vendors on site, including, Pitabilities, Dan’s Deli, Miller’s Old Fashioned Ice Cream, Timmy’s Meltdown, Troncone & Perry’s, Barley 31, Tavern 161, and The Buckeye Pig Rig.

There will also be entertainment featuring DJ Mac Thomas and live music from The Groove.

This year’s 15th Annual Cruise-In will take place in uptown Plain City on Main Street (Route 161) between Park Street and North Avenue. The show is once again being sponsored by Bob Chapman Ford. Proceeds benefit the Uptown Plain City Organization (UPCO) and the Friends of the Plain City Public Library.

If you would like to register in advance, it is only $10 and you can do so by going HERE. Online registration ends on August 24. Pre-register and save $3 (only $10)! Registration is $13 the day of the show. Registration takes place from 2 pm to 5 pm.

You can also download the registration form by going HERE.

There will be tons of awards, including motorcycle awards and specially made awards.

Stop by for lots of food, fun, and super cars!

Additionally, White Feather Gallery-Boutique & Garden Events will be hosting an “Artists on the Lawn” event at their boutique at 179 E. Main Street in uptown Plain City.

White Feather has many, many artists who they showcase in their Gallery. Many of the 50 plus artists are from right here in Ohio. Some of those artists will be available during the car show from 11 am to 3 pm on the lawn at White Feather to show off their products. Please stop by.

To learn more about the “Artists on the Lawn” event, go HERE.

To find out more about the car show, go HERE.

To keep up on all the Car Show Events, Like the Facebook page HERE.

It’s time once again for the Annual Plain City Classic Car Cruise-In. When the car show arrives, I always know that we are at the height of summer.

This year’s 11th Annual Cruise-In will take place in uptown Plain City on Main Street (Route 161) between Park Street and North Avenue. The show is once again being sponsored by Bob Chapman Ford. Proceeds benefit the Uptown Plain City Organization (UPCO).

Registration is $10 with registration running from 11 am to 2 pm at 204 West Main Street. One dollar ($1) from each registration fee received will be donated to Friends of the Plain City Public Library. Download a registration application HERE.

There will be tons of awards, including motorcycle awards and specially made awards. The awards ceremony will begin after 4 pm. The show runs until 5 pm.

Stop by for lots of food, fun, and super cars!

You can LIKE the Car Show on Facebook HERE.

To read a nice article about the show in The Madison Press, go HERE.

It’s time once again for the Annual Plain City Classic Car Cruise-In. When the car show arrives, I always know that we are at the height of summer. I cannot believe that it has been 10 years since the first car show, which in the first year also featured a now defunct jazz festival.

This year’s 10th Annual Cruise-In will take place in uptown Plain City on Main Street (Route 161) between Park Street and North Avenue. The show is once again being sponsored by Bob Chapman Ford. Proceeds benefit the Uptown Plain City Organization (UPCO).

Registration is $10 with registration running from 11 am to 2 pm at 204 West Main Street. Registration fees will be donated to Friends of the Plain City Public Library. You can register in advance until July 28.

There will be tons of awards, including motorcycle awards and specially made awards. The awards ceremony will begin after 4 pm.

Stop by for lots of food, fun, and super cars!

It’s time once again for the Annual Plain City Classic Car Cruise-In. When the car show arrives, I always know that we are at the height of summer.

This year’s 9th Annual Cruise-In will take place in uptown Plain City on Main Street (Route 161) between Park Street and North Avenue. The show is once again being sponsored by Bob Chapman Ford. Proceeds benefit the Uptown Plain City Organization (UPCO).

Registration is $10 with registration running from 11 am to 2 pm at 204 West Main Street. Registration fees will be donated to Friends of the Plain City Public Library. You can register in advance until July 30 by going HERE.

There will be 70 plus awards, including motorcycle awards. Dash plaques to the first 200 entrants. Goodie bags to the first 100 entrants. DJ Mac Thomas will be performing along with Live Bands, 4 Miles Out and Jorden Stock.

Stop by for lots of food, fun, and super cars!

To find out more, visit the UPCO web site HERE or HERE.

To download a flyer, go HERE.

This coming weekend there are a lot of interesting things going on in the Plain City area. Plan your time accordingly.

First off, is the 8th Annual Plain City Classic Car Cruise-In presented by Bob Chapman Ford and the Uptown Plain City Organization. The car show will be on Saturday, August 7 from 11 am to 5 pm. The registration fee is $10 and you can either register by printing out the form on the web site listed below and bringing that to the event (if it is already filled out, this will help speed up the registration process) or at the registration desk between 11 am to 2 pm the day of the show. There will be more than 60 awards, as well as dash plaques to the first 200 registrants, goody bags to the first 100 registrants, t-shirts, raffles, kids activities, as well as food, music, and more.

The car show will once again be located in uptown Plain City along Main Street. For more info on the car show, visit the UPCO site or the site specifically set up for the car show: Car Show Info

The car show has really blossomed since its start in 2003. At that time it was known as the Plain City Jazz Festival and Classic Car Cruise-In. Joe and I worked with Gary Hay, who owned The Daily Grind Coffee Shop, to get the event off the ground. After the first year, we quickly learned that a jazz festival and a car show didn’t really fit together very well. The car show guys hung around long enough to collect their awards, then they revved their engines and spun away in a whirl of smoke and burnt rubber. The people who stayed or came for the jazz bands were a whole different group of people.

Since Joe and I had never really ever been to a car show, we had to rely quite heavily on the Roberts’ family, especially Theresa Roberts, to explain how car shows worked. The Roberts clan had several older cars that they routinely took around to area shows and they knew the circuit and what you did and did not do. That first year, even though he was under 18, Ory Roberts won the “Pharmacist’s Pick” for his entry, not only because his car was our choice, but because his mom had been such a super help to us.

Several years later when Julie Weaver got involved, the car show really became a smoothly oiled machine. Julie, who was a car show connoisseur, had ideas and ways of doing things that made the show very professional.

The car show started out with the cars lining South Chillicothe Street. From there it went out to the parking lot at Lovejoy’s IGA grocery store and now once again, it is being held under the shadow of the clock.

The second offering for this long, hot weekend is the Dublin Irish Festival. The Festival runs from Friday, August 6 to Sunday, August 8. You can find a complete schedule of events online: Dublin Irish Festival

I have lots of memories of the Dublin Irish Festival. It has grown tremendously since we first started going there in 1996 (or close to it). It used to be a relatively small event, but it is so large now, you have to be bussed in from area parking lots. In 1997, I had back surgery and I still remember walking around the Irish Festival with my parents, Joe, and Bobbie, as well as Joe’s cousins, Larry and Phyllis. I had to wear comfy stretch shorts, because the wound on my back had not healed and I was leaking a mysterious fluid that turned out to be cerebral spinal fluid. Not long after that weekend, I was back in the hospital to have the fluid flow stopped.

One of my favorite things to do at the Dublin Irish Festival is watch the Irish dancers. The Richens/Timm Academy of Irish Dance always features wonderful children and young adult dancers.

So whether you like jalopies or blarney, there’s something for everyone to do around Plain City this weekend.