CHARITY CUSTOM & CLASSIC Car Show 2020

Here’s a throw back to 2020 since we are missing out on this awesome charity car show this year.

This awesome event is truly a fantastic day out! It started many years ago as a smallish show in the Cambridge Domain raising funds for local charities. But as all these non-affiliated shows do, they just seem to grow and grow as the word gets out. The first time we went along in the Coupe, we could see it wasn’t going to be long before the Cambridge Domain would be too small. As it just so happened, the next year a storm ripped through the area bringing branches down from the trees in the Domain making it an unsafe area to be holding such a show. Rather than cancel the show, which was looking likely, the Stragglers Rod & Kustom Club decided to move it to the Karapiro Domain on the edge of the Waikato River. This turned out to be an amazing move for the club as the show grew massively from then on! Being an ‘open’ show for anything classic or custom opens the door for all sorts of car clubs to come along. Entry in the gate is as simple as it gets. Just a gold coin donation to park up and enjoy the day is all it is. This obviously isn’t much but when you get over a thousand cars rolling in, emptying out their ash-trays into the donation buckets, it soon turns into an awesome fund raiser for the club. All the funds this year went to foundations helping local families in need, so it’s a fantastic day for a fantastic cause. The venue itself is awesome! There are three different areas for parking up and for the retro caravans, you can even park up the night before to get the whole day in. This is now one of the biggest shows on the calendar to get along to now. The club has certainly got stuck into it, organising kids entertainment, rock ‘n roll dancing with the live bands and heaps of food vendors to feed and water the masses. Being in November, it seems to be the kick starter to the summer season of car shows. Lots of new builds roll out from being built over winter and with everyone