One of South Jersey’s largest Car Show and Family Events is revving up in beautiful down town Merchantville. Merchantville’s 15th Annual Summer Sock Hop, Car and Bike Show will take place on June 29 2013, with a rain date of July 6, 2013. This year car registration will be from 8:30 a.m. – noon and the Show will be from 12 to 5 pm.The famed Elvis Impersonator Mark Reno
will be here performing the best of Elvis. Our Annual Car show has a 50’s Sock Hop and Theme where more than 800 Cars and Motorcycles come to compete for one of the 26 Best in Show 6.5’ trophies. In addition over 400 additional trophies are awarded. The first 800 cars and bikes to show up will get a free Commemorative dash plaque. This show features a unique award class, the “Combination Class”, where you can enter any combination of two different vehicles bike, truck or car.
Additional live entertainment will be throughout the town including the Famous Rock-a-Billy Band Full Blown Cherry and other great singers performing throughout the day. There will be 9 DJ’s and a main stage area for where the following contests will be held.
- Dance Contest
- Hula Hoop Contest
- Singing Contest
- Best Dressed 50’s contest,
This is a Fun for All Family event, including the following events for children,
- Magic Shows
- Moon Bounce
- Rock Wall Climbing
- Petting Zoo
- Pony Drawn Cart Rides
- Face Painting
One of the main highlights of the day is our Spectacular Veteran’s Ceremony. At 2 pm the entire town and all the entrants gather at the Gazebo as Bob Paterson performs a moving and emotional rendition of our Country’s National Anthem. Our veteran’s ceremony sets the bar for any ceremony anywhere. We have Bagpipers, Mummers, The Marine Color Guard, and a Food-Drive round out the day.
The Cherry Valley Rail Road Club will host an open house exhibit in the Grace Episcopal Church basement. The famous Merchantville Car Show tee shirt will be sold for only $10.00 the day of show we will have a 50/50 raffle; several people will be walking around the show selling the 50/50 tickets, drawing will be at 5:00pm at the Gazebo, must be present to win.
Every year we honor the memory of someone special to the Car Show. This year there will be a special tribute to Rob English, corvette restoration specialist, where we will have section for all corvettes and plenty of awards.
So polish those hubcaps, put on your Blue Suede Shoes, grab the family and cruise on over to the Merchantville Car Show and Summer Sock Hop on June29,2013 from 12pm-5pm.
