4th Annual Veteran's Car Show - PICTURES

I have a date for this years Veterans Car show at the VA hospital. June 30, 2007. (Saturday)

I will work on the event times and everything else in the months to come. invitations will be sent out via snail mail to those who have attended in the past, and I will get even more goodies for both Veterans and car owners.

And this year we can actually drive the GTO-R in the parade with everyone!

I will keep everyone posted as time goes by. This year I bet we will top 100 Vehicles for this special day for the Veterans!!

 

Hi Gerry,

I'd be happy to.

The Veterans Car show is held at the North Chicago VA hospital for our Vet's.

It is a private show, just car folks bringing in unique cars for a walk down memory lane for the Vets here. The goal?...to give our Nation's Heroes some well deserves smiles and memories.

No registration fees to bring a car, and I get free raffles prizes, trophies, goodie bags, food and refreshments for the owners! The trophies are the Directors Choice Award, and 1st, 2nd & 3rd place Veterans Choice voted by all the Veterans at the show.

My family does the cooking of the dogs for everyone each year and donates a few raffle prizes, or gives out Beenie Babies to all the gals...just little neat stuff from my mom.

The past few years, we have had a DJ playing oldies for us during the show, he usually plays a nice selection of tunes for the whole day.

We try to hold it between meal times for the Vets so that they can get proper nutrition, some do get the hot dogs and soda tho!

We get Navy Chiefs and Corpsman School students to help with Vets who are wheelchair or gerichair bound. Some of our more capable Vets push chairs too as they like helping out their comerades. (caution is taken with the chairs and we try to space the vehicles far enough apart for movement)

We have many different types of Veterans at this facility. We help mental health Veterans, SGRC, intensive medicine, surgical, Women's Veteran programs, substance abuse and addiction, homeless and we have recently murged with the Navy hospital and this past year, we had delivered our first baby!

At the end of the show, everyone hops in his or her car, and we follow the Medical Center Director who rides in a 1921 Stutz Fire Engine for the Parade for Veterans. We drive in front of the 3 main buildings that we care for Veterans in. The reason for this is that we do have a good amount of guys and gals who are not well enough to make it out to the show area, so they can see it from where they are cared for. Many drivers cant see the Vets, but they sure do hear and see all the cars and love it!

There are threads in the past that have some great pics of the cars that have been displayed in the previous shows, some wild, some exotics, muscle cars, military vehicles and some just great examples of old American Iron.

OK, that is about it. ~~not much rambling I hope~~

I will post the exact time of day and maps and such when the time gets closer. Any questions, let me know, I'd be happy to answer them for you and anyone else.

Thanks all,

Haley

 

Thank you Andreas!

Of course the little red monster will be there!

 

Johnny, well over half the people I know are Vets, with almost half of them being Marines. Thanks for your interest!

Skip, that is great, if there is anything I can do to help if you need, let me know. I am glad Ed and others should attend, I think it is going to be a great year.

 

Rick, it will be great to have you there again, and thanks for thinking of the Vets. You know that it is not required to bring items....the cars are plenty.

 

Frank, that would be great. I can see what I can do about getting him a ride on the 1921 Fire Engine if he can make it. May have to share the back with the Med Center Director's young'ins if they come again this year, but still would be fun if he never been on one before. If the Stutz is full up, maybe a ride in the old blue Bugatti.

 

Bill, it would be great to see you n Ruby there!

 

Norm, I was in a bit after that when we used SSN's...but there is a whole lot of stuffs I did learn and will never forget.

 

June 30, 2007
North Chicago Veterans Hospital
3001 Green Bay Rd.
North Chicago, Il 60064
Registration starts @ 11:00am
Veterans start viewing after they eat Noon meals.
Parade ends festivities at roughly 3:45pm-4:00pm

 

Sure can Will be good to have a BMW present

Jay, that sounds great! Can't have too many convertible FCars!

 

Offspring would be interesting looking...and would not be like we are intermixing species!