Well...we are in the final count down. 12 DAYS TO GO!
We have been bustin our butts to finalize everything. So far we have 85 Chinese Auction Baskets and are still collecting. This is going to be a huge auction this year. Some of the items include...Antique license plate topper (we have 2 different ones) and an Antique cast iron Mobilgas small round sign. We have car vacuums that plug into your car, Old Iron sides gas canister, we have stuff for kids, stuff for the wives and the list keeps growing. This is going to be an Auction to remember. For the Lottery Board Auction...We have collected $445.00 dollars worth of scratch offs on this lottery board. We have a 32" TV to Auction off (THANK YOU AGAIN STEREO SHOP)
0 Comments
Well...The Car Show is a little more than a month away. We have been collecting Chinese Auction Baskets, gathering donations for our door prizes for drivers. T Shirts are in! Window cards are ordered and should be completed this week, dash plaque magnets are ordered and should arrive today. Over the weekend we found some awesome antique licence plate toppers (Route 66) and an Antique Mobile gas sign.
We also want to give out a huge THANK YOU to THE STEREO SHOP in Greensburg PA for the donation of a 32" TV to auction off at the car show. Details are slowly falling into place! This year we had a little hiccup securing our yearly "Last Sunday in August date" So this year our date has changed to September 9th 2018. We sincerely hope the change in date does not effect how many beautiful cars come each year. We have had such a success with the number of cars over the past 3 years and hope it continues to grow in this manner. We continually strive for each year to be better than the last and hope that our drivers enjoy their day as they come out to support Special Day for Special Kids.
We want to thank everybody who came out to our show to support Special Day for Special Kids. Every penny that is spent at the car cruise is donated to Special Day! For this 2017 Show we had (at last count) 204 cars, trucks and motorcycles! We are so grateful to all of you! Our spectator parking was also filled and we can't thank all of you enough. We had 550-600 people there and we appreciate each and every one of you.
There is a new page on the site that has a photo slide show of the 2017 Show...Please take a couple minutes and check them out! Also...If you have been to any one of our 3 shows we would definitely like to hear your thoughts. We take pride into trying to put on a great show for the drivers of the cars and would love to hear your feedback and suggestions to make this show bigger and better for the next shows to come. We do work all year long. As soon as one show ends, we take a couple breaths and move onto planning the next...so please keep checking back for updates on the 2018 show. Once Registered At Show Aug. 27th .....
1. Please fill out your window card and the small judges slip and place both on windshield of your car. (these are needed for the judges and please keep in mind that these judges are volunteers for Special Day. This is fun day and NOT professionally judged) Judging ends at 2:30pm Trophies to be called at 3:30. 2. Keep Door prize ticket safe and at hand. (RED color ticket, stapled to your window card.) Keep one and put one in jar at the DJ booth. 3. Have fun and enjoy the day. We have: Door Prizes (located at DJ booth. Called periodically throughout day) ~come up and look over the multitude of items available as there are a lot to choose from and while there...please request a song from the DJ. Chinese Basket Auction Located under small pavilion $5.00 per card. Cards (yellow # tickets include a total of 25 numbers (Do not have to be present to win, but willing to pick up in Derry at a later date.) Winners called at 3:45 Lottery Board Auction (must be present to win (volunteers are not eligible) ~ winner called after chinese auction) (Located at Pavilions.... $350.00 worth of scratch off tickets ticket prices are 1 for $1.00, 5 for $3.00 or 15 for $5.00) 50/50 (Must be present to win) ~ ( volunteers are not eligible) winner called after chinese auction) Located with Lottery Board and will also be walking around ticket prices are 1 for $1.00, 5 for $3.00 or 15 for $5.00) Canopy Bundle - Canopy, two chairs, cooler ( volunteers are not eligible) ticket prices are 1 for $1.00, 5 for $3.00 or 15 for $5.00) Cash Bowl - Worth $300.00 - ( volunteers are not eligible) ticket prices are 1 for $1.00, 5 for $3.00 or 15 for $5.00) CAR,TRUCK,MOTORCYLCE CHANCES: We will be selling chances for each car, truck and motorcycle to be put on the T-shirts, window cards and dash plaques/magnets for next years show. (Chances will be at the cost of $1.00 per chance) Photos of winning vehicles will be taken at the end of the car show...winners please stick around. Winners called after chinese auction. T-SHIRTS ARE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE: $10.00 per shirt. Food (Located in Big Pavilion) Hot dog ~ $1.00 plain or with sauerkraut (also this year...Hot Pepper Sauerkraut From Blackbird Distillery) Hot Sausage ~ $3.00 Smoked Pulled Pork Sandwich ~$3.00 (Smoked by: Dominick's BBQ) Nachos ~ $2.00 Macaroni Salad ~ $1.00 Old Fashioned Raspberry Jello Fluff ~ $1.00 Water, Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, MT Dew, Orange and Rootbeer ~ $1.00 FOR THOSE WHO ATTENED LAST YEAR .... We Give a HUGE THANK YOU! For those you who are new and would like to see what your money helps us to do and to continue this day for these special kids...Please come have a look at the photo board. (Located in big pavilion with the trophy display) Please keep in mind every cent you spend here is donated to Special Day for Special Kids. Last year we sold chances for drivers to get their car, truck and motorcycle on the t-shirts, dash plaques and window cards for this years show. These were the winners.
Well, we are only 20 days away from the car show date. Getting our last minute stuff done seems like it will take until the night before the show. :) I always fret about every detail, I can't help it. We have been wrapping baskets, gathering donations for door prizes, which are pretty good this year so we always encourage the drivers to please come up to the DJ booth and look through the door prizes before your number gets called so you know what is there and what you might like. We have gift certificates to restaurants (which can be found on our sponsor page to which ones they are), power bank chargers, metal signs, free state inspections for motorcycles, car cleaning kits all the way to hats. We like to have enough variety so there will be something for everybody and while your looking request a song from the DJ you wanna hear. We have our Menu prepared: There is nothing on the menu over $3.00 so please come enjoy the food! Hot Dogs (with or without Kraut) always $1.00 to Pulled Pork sandwiches $3.00 and drinks for $1.00. There is more in-between, so please join us and enjoy! T-Shirts for this year are in and will be $10.00 at the show Trophies are being built and shipped as I approved the final build last week. I will post more in the coming weeks of photos of the stuff we will have for baskets, door prizes and trophies, t-shirts so stay tuned. HOPE YOU CAN MAKE IT OUT TO JOIN US! We are moving forward at a quick pace. We like our car show to be well thought out. We are very hands on in everything we do for our car show to succeed. We have been gathering door prizes for our drivers some of the prizes so far... metal signs, collectible die-cast gas pumps, solar chargers, cleaning rags for cars, dusters for cars, cleaning supplies for cars and still gathering.
We have traveled to Hagerstown Maryland to build our trophies and get them ordered. (I will post a photo when available) as of right now they are being built to suit what we wanted. We have our custom made dash plaques (which are actually magnets) ordered. We have our custom window cards for car identification ordered We have our custom t-shirts ordered. (The design includes the car, truck and motorcycle that had their ticket pulled from last years car show in the t-shirt lottery.) The T-shirt, dash plaques and window cards all match with the same design. We are also gathering our lottery tickets for our lottery board auction. (Last year was over $400.00 worth of lottery scratch offs. Last year we had almost 80 Chinese Auction baskets and we are collecting for this year and hoping to gain more. We are striving to have a great show! |
AuthorHello, I'm Roxanne. I am the organizer for the Special Day Cruise for Special Kids. You can contact me through the Menu. |