Join us Sunday, September 16, 2012, for the seventeenth annual Hagley Car Show. The show promises to bring back all of the family favorites enjoyed every year—a fabulous field of antique and classic automobiles—and a few new surprises to delight the crowd.

This year’s show feature is an American icon—the pickup truck. Legend has it that the inspiration for the pickup truck came from Down Under when an Australian farmer wrote to the head of Ford Australia in 1932 asking them to create a vehicle that could "take her family to church on Sunday and the pigs to market on Monday." Though that request did lead to the design of a utility vehicle with an enclosed cab and a utility bed, the reality is that earliest vehicles resembling today’s pickup trucks were produced for the military during World War I and that both Chevy and Dodge were producing pickup trucks for the public by 1918. This year’s feature section of the show field will include examples of these earliest American pickup trucks.

In addition to pickup trucks, the car show is expected to include nearly 600 classic vehicles from every era, video racing and pedal car course for the kids, a vintage juke box display, highlights from the newly catalogued Vinson Collection of Automotive History, a variety of food vendors, and the rock-and-roll music of earlier days spun by DJ Bob Burke.