St. Ignace Car Show Weekend
June 26, 2025 - June 29, 2025
Join us for the 49th Annual St. Ignace Car Show Weekend, June 26-29, 2024!
You are invited to one of the largest ALL MAKES, ALL MODELS car shows in the country. Over 800 show vehicles on the main street through downtown St. Ignace on the shores of beautiful Lake Huron. St. Ignace – Big Time car show with our famous Small Town charm!
Show Your Car
If you have a classic car or vintage truck tucked away in your garage, why not consider registering your pride and joy and bringing it to our car show.
Online Registration will be discounted to $25 for pre-registration, which closes on June 13 at noon.
Onsite registration will be $35 cash only in 2024 and will be increasing to $40 in 2025. Onsite registration is available Thursday June 27-Saturday June 29 at the show
On Thursday, June 27, and Friday, June 28, from 12:00 Noon-5pm you can register or pick up your packet at the Registration Tent, located just to the left of the entrance to the St. Ignace Marina. On Saturday, June 29, from 8am-12:00 Noon you will be able to register your vehicle or pick up your packet at the Registration Tent.
We are HIGHLY recommending pre-registration so we can better prepare for the event. We also recommend that you pick up your packet on Thursday or Friday if you arrive in town before Saturday. It will save you some time and effort.
Registration includes:
- Show space downtown and awards ceremony (awards include Top 40 and Specialty Awards)
- Thursday Night Cruise Night admission
- Inclusion in Down Memory Lane Parade
- Commemorative gift
- $10 free slot play at Kewadin Casino (18 and over)
Model Car Show
Participate in this years Model Car Show on Saturday June 29th at the American Legion Park Gazebo. 10 Awards plus Special awards to be given.
Classes
- General
- Jr. Builder
- Rugrats
- Air & Sea (top 3 awards)
Theme Award: “It Came From Air or Sea”
Bring a car with those names. Example Firebirds, Cuda etc.
Bring a Customized Trophy
New this year! Anyone can bring their own custom fun trophy and give it to their favorite build.
Date: Saturday June 29th
Location: Gazebo at American Legion Park, 200 State Street across from US Post Office.
Registration: 9am – noon
Awards: 1pm
$5 per entry, $10 unlimited, Kids class FREE
Contact: darrin_ss454@yahoo.com or Facebook Messenger Darrin Von G
Schedule of Events
Thursday, June 27: Cruise Night hosted by Kewadin Casinos with $10 free slot play. Staging at 7 PM
Friday, June 28:
10:30am – 1:00pm : CARS & COFFEE CORVETTE & BOOK SIGNING EVENT, Little Bear East Arena – Tickets can be purchased onsite or purchase now by clicking here!
For the 41st year, the Down Memory Lane Parade will begin at 7 PM. If you want to be in the parade, you MUST be at the airport no later than 6:30 PM. The Down Memory Lane Parade will be streaming live on 100.7 FM radio.
Saturday, June 29: The Big Show! 8 AM – 4 PM. All of downtown from Church Street to Marquette is closed for the show from 5 AM – 5 PM. Check out live music throughout town, vendors in the St. Ignace Marina parking lot and a few select locations, special guests, and more! Details will be updated as soon as they are confirmed. Fireworks at Dusk.
Saturday, June 29, 7pm, Awards Ceremony in the overflow lot at the Little Bear Arena, 275 Marquette Street.
Keys to the Kingdom Book Signing
Saturday, 10am-11:30am and 1-2:30pm, Marina Registration Tent.
‘Keys to the Kingdom’ Book Signing with author Sean Reavie and special guests Jon Moss, Jerry Palmer, John Cafaro, Tom Peters, and Kirk Bennion.
Celebration of Life
We will have a special celebration of life for St. Ignace Car Show Founder Ed Reavie. Please plan to join us Saturday at 12:00pm at the St. Ignace City Marina Dock as we look back to the beginning of the car show and the many years that have passed since then.
Car Show Venders
Attention Vendors, Manufacturers and Businesses. Want to be part of the action? The St. Ignace Car Show is the perfect location and venue for sales, promotion and display of your products and services.
2024 Highlights
This year, we celebrate America’s Sports Car, the Corvette.
“Keys to the Kingdom” the biography of Jon A. Moss, the legendary retired head of General Motors Special Vehicle Group debuts during the car show on June 29th at two book signing sessions and will be available for preorder June 24th.
Guests of Honor for the show include automotive Hall of Famer Mr. Jerry Palmer, the designer of the C4 Corvette, Mr. John Cafaro, designer of the C5 Corvette, and Mr. Kirk Bennion, designer of the C7 Corvette.
Mr. Tom Peters, designer of the C6 and C8 Corvettes, returns as a special guest, bringing every living Corvette designer to St. Ignace for photos and autographs. Jon Moss, who was part of the greatest black operation in automotive history, will also be present.
In June of 1993, General Motors planned to cancel the Corvette after the 4th Generation. Working under cover of darkness, “The CERV IV Project” saw Jon Moss assemble a team, working 24/7, and producing a working prototype of the new C5 Corvette in only 93 days, changing the course of history and saving the Corvette from extinction. The book gives great detail on this covert project, telling the story for the first time with interviews with the men involved.
The Corvette & Coffee Guest of Honor Event will be a CERV IV discussion with the key players to include Mr. Jon Moss, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Cafaro, Mr. Peters, and Mr. Tom Stephens, former Vice-Chairman of General Motors. Tickets to this once in a lifetime event can be purchased onsite or online by clicking here!
Note From St. Ignace Visitors Bureau
This event is organized by the St. Ignace Visitors Bureau. Many of our events do not make a profit and those that do, fund activities for guests in St. Ignace including weekly fireworks and nightly music in the summer, and contributions to local programs for downtown beautification and upgrades. The St. Ignace Visitors Bureau is able to make these contributions to the betterment of our town as a whole, and your experience as a visitor, through stays in St. Ignace hotels. To this end, we highly recommend that you stay in a St. Ignace hotel when you visit, to help make these events possible. Thank you for your support of our community!