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INFO FOR 2010 WILL BE UPDATED AS AVAILABLE
21st YEAR & GOING STRONG! FIRST, THANKS TO ALL THAT PARTICIPATED IN
2009. Your 2009 participation helped raise $7,500,
& with the previous 4 shows, we have given over $47,500.00 to Charities & Scholarships....
It's why we do the show! See the "GOLDEN RULE AWARD"
section to see who benefited from your participation.
(+ = new for 2010)
We have added 2 motorcycle classes so tell your friends that have bikes to bring them, and we are
again awarding trophies in 31 classes.
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* Pre-registered vehicles get their numbers assigned
when we receive the Pre-registration. #101 to first pre-registered in each class & so on.
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*Pre-registered vehicles get their packet
at the gate (separate line), includes your Window Card (filled out), "pre-deposited" door prize ticket, dash plaque,
ballot & map - skip the lines at registration completely - drive in, park & you're
done!
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* For your cars, It's ALL "on the grass" parking! No parking
on dirt ballfields, asphalt lots,.or gravel roads! (500+ cars in 2009) |
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* Lots of entertainment & things to do & see to fill the WHOLE day. (See "Entertainment Info")
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* We have a "Tuners" Class and a "Low Riders" Class |
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* We have a
Car Corral, so no "For Sale" signs will be allowed in "classed" cars.
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* A pancake breakfast (8-10:30), and all day there's burgers, brats, polish, corn dogs,
Mexican food (healthy salad), cheese curds, mini doughnuts, pork chops, pop corn, carmel corn, ice cream
& more.
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* We make every attempt to start trophy presentations ON-TIME! And,
we'll present 3/class + choices & Best of Shows!
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* There are
4 "in-door" bathrooms, not port-a-pots
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* We have a HUGE Craft Fair - 100+ booths, plus additional vendors around the
grounds
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* A trolley runs throughout the grounds
all day to save on the walking.
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* It's
consolidated so things are close together and easy to find & get to. Info booth is available
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NO PETS, SCOOTERS, SKATEBOARDS, BICYCLES OR ROLLERBLADES ALLOWED . NOW.... A LITTLE HISTORY For 16 years, through 2004, our Car Club had held a Friday Night Cruise & a Saturday
Car Show during Lakeville's Pan-O-Prog festivities. We had built these events into very successful events, with the "Cruise"
becoming the best drawing event of Pan-O-Prog. With it's 500 - 600 cars, Lakeville told us that our Cruise
actually drew twice the number of spectators (over 22,000) that come to watch the Pan-O-Prog
Parade on Sunday. In 2005 we decided to continue hosting the Cruise (In 2008 we hosted the Pan-O-Prog Cruise for the
last time. A dispute over whether it should be a button event or not ended with us parting ways. The Club did not feel the
entertainment (your vehicles in the cruise) should have to have a button to be in the cruise, POP committee disagree and instituted
mandatory buttons.
BUT regarding the Car Show............. We had been hearing our members, and members from other Car Clubs,
sorta complaining that there was no Car Show held in the "South of the River" Metro area that
they considered a "Huge Event", meaning it was more than cars & hamburgers. We felt a Huge Event should include
a Car Show, Craft Fair, Swap Meet & more. So, because of our previous success, we decided to expand our show
to include all these items, and hoped that with your participation it would become a "huge" event.
NEW SHOW FORMAT MEANT NEW DATE & LOCATION
With that in
mind, in late 2004 we decided to move our Car Show, to a new location & a new date, as there would not be enough
room at our previous location in Antler's Park to do what we were planning. So in 2005 we chose the Dakota County Fairgrounds
as our new location because it obviously would give us the luxury of having an unlimited growth potential. The
first 5 years of our "changed" event, we've given 100% of the profits to local Charities &
Scholarships. It was a total of over $47,500.00. We and our Charities & Scholarships Thank You!
WHY WE BELIEVED OUR SHOW WOULD BE "ONE OF THE BEST"!
(See the "HOW
WE'LL RUN THE EVENTS" for more details) We are a fairly
large club, and if you check on our main website under "Members Info" & then "Event Recaps" (not
always real updated... sorry) you will see that we are a very active Club as far as attending a lot of shows etc. We have members
attending at least 25+ shows, some large & some small, in addition to many cruises throughout the
season. Our members talked to people at the different shows to find out what they liked & didn't like about
the way the different shows were run, & then they'd bring that info back to the club members at our
monthly meetings. Based on this info, we kept the things we knew we did really well at our show, added some of the
better things we've seen at different shows (large & small), & have tried to avoid things that
you, the participants, don't like. In addition to that, we came up with some (what we think) are fresh ideas (ex: having
separate areas for stock & modified not mixed in together etc). Also the classes run pretty much in sequence meaning class
100 is not on the opposite end of the show from class 200. We also planned to have enough things going on to keep the day
interesting. Our goal WAS
& IS, to make our show a "MUST GO TO EVENT", and hopefully by collecting all this information, & implementing
the good stuff, when you leave our show, you'll be saying it was one of the best shows you've attended
all year. We were pleased
to hear from many of you that filled out surveys, as well as many comments that were made, that you felt it was a great show
and would definitely be back. We want to thank you, and look forward to seeing you again! We planned to have alot of things going on for entertainment. We knew
that the time goes pretty quick from registration till about noon because you're cleaning your car, grabbing a bite to
eat, doing your voting, chatting with friends & before you know it, it's noon or so. We had found that the vast
majority of car show attendees agree that once the voting is closed, the noon/1:00 to 3:00 time frame is a bit slow &
a little boring for many, especially if it's hot. In the "entertainment" section of this site, you will see
that we will have a lot of things going on and things to see that will help make that time pass a bit quicker. In
2008 we went to having a live band. We've now got something for everyone! We hope you attend and
/or participate in our show. We plan to always advertise this extensively to the Car Club Community, Crafters, Swappers &
Commercial type vendors, as well as to the General Public NOTE: If you &/or your spouse are coming to the show as a Car
Show Participant, but you are also a crafter, see the bottom of this page!
WE WANT TO RUN OUR SHOW THE WAY YOU THINK IT SHOULD BE RUN! We have had a lot of input from a lot of people, and below we have listed some
of the things people considered important. Now some items seem to be common sense, but there are many shows that are missing
one or many of these items. Below are some of the high points: - Get vehicles in quickly, no sitting in lines fooling around filling out registration forms etc. Get in
& Get Parked!, then do the registering
- Pre-registered
cars get a packet at gate. Sign disclaimer & you're done! No need to go to registration, even your door prize ticket
has been pre-deposited.
- Keep dust to a minimum - nobody
wants to dust the car all day
- We provide "on the
grass" parking for ALL cars
- 31 classes with 1st through
3rd trophies in ALL classes, and 4th places in some of the larger classes. None of this "it's a small class so we'll
only give 2 trophies", unless of course there's not 3 vehicles in the class :-)
- In addition to the class trophies, there's also choice trophies & Best of Show trophies
- We'll get trophy presentation started on time, & won't have a
"chatty" member handing out the trophies. Get to it & get it done so you can be on your way.
- Have things going on to give people something to occupy their time
when all the "show stuff" has been handled (see the "entertainment" section)
WE WOULD APPRECIATE YOUR HELP If you know any Crafters, Swappers or Vendors (of any type to participate OR become a sponsor),
please direct them to our website, or give them our e-mail ShowInfo@SouthernCruzers.com . (remember it's spelled cruZers) Help us make a bigger & better show for you!
NOTICE: If
you &/or your spouse are pre-registered as a crafter as well as a pre-registered car show participant, we
will allow you to bring your show car in early (set up opens at 6:00am) so that you can help get the booth set up.
If you are planning to do this please let us know via e-mail so we can match up your Car &
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