Classic Car Show Returns, By Sam Storey, Mayor, City of Capitola

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Classic Car Show Returns

By Sam Storey, Mayor, City of Capitola

Do you like old cars? If you do, come to the Capitola Rod & Custom Classic Car Show this summer. There you’ll see lined up in Capitola Village dozens of shiny, colorful, and curvy old cars. Viewing them all in one place is a quick walk through the history of the automobile. Here is displayed in one place the evolving style and technology of cars.

If you’ve never been to the Capitola Classic Car Show, I encourage you to come see it for yourself at Esplanade Park this June 11 & 12, 2022.

However, this article is not just about the car show, but more importantly, about the people behind it and why they put it on.

The Capitola Public Safety & Community Service Foundation has put on the Capitola Classic Car Show since 2005. The Foundation was also started in 2005 by a group of Capitola citizens with the mission of increasing direct citizen participation in community safety. These citizens and the city worked together to establish the

Photo Credit: Jondi Gumz

One of the classics at the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation in Dearborn, Michigan. If you can’t get to Michigan, the next best thing may be the Classic Car Show in Capitola Village.

Foundation. It is now a nonprofit organization with a board of 16 members made up of local residents, business owners, employees, and police officers of Capitola. The members work together to support the Capitola Police Department, community policing, and other community services in Santa Cruz County. In order to raise its necessary funding the Foundation relies on donations and events such as the Classic Car Show.

The Classic Car Show is one of the Foundation’s major fundraising events. The money raised is used to sponsor and fund efforts to improve public safety and community services. The recipients have included the Capitola Police Department, the Capitola Volunteers in Police Service program, the Neighborhood Watch Program, Capitola Lifeguard Program, the Annual National Night Out event, Herb Ross Award, the Fallen Officers Association, and Operation Surf for wounded veterans. And many more.

All of these efforts contribute to the ongoing effort to sustain community policing.

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