Custom cars, hot rods strutting their stuff
Want to catch a glimpse of the nicest custom cars and hot rods around?
The Spokane area features some of the best anywhere. The professional and amateur builders from this area have a knack for doing things with cars that are rivaled only in places such as California – the so-called birthplace of the business.
Here is a list of events, with contact information, to be held this month in the Spokane and Coeur d’Alene area.
One of the most notable local events will be the 10th-annual Hot Rod Cafe River City Rod Run to be held in Post Falls on Friday through Sunday. Each year, it draws thousands of people and hundreds of cars from across the nation.
A lesser-known but important event is the Inland Northwest Car Club Council’s Downtown Scholarship Car Show to be held in Spokane on the evening of July 19. Cars of all types will line much of Riverside Avenue. The show is free to spectators, but participants are charged $5, with all proceeds going to the group’s scholarship fund.
The Road Knights of Davenport, Wash., stage a show each summer, with this year’s event to be July 21. That club has a rich history of involvement in rods and customs as well as in the rich tradition of area drag racing.
This July calendar is a presentation of the Inland Northwest Car Club Council. For more information, visit its Web site at www.incarclubcouncil.org.
July schedule
Friday through Sunday: 10th-annual Hot Rod Cafe River City Rod Run, Hot Rod Cafe, Post Falls, (208) 777-1712.
Saturday: Extreme Customs open house, 5 p.m., 24801 E. Wellesley, (509) 226-0823; Visions Midsummer Jam Car Show, 8 a.m., Waterfront Park, Medical Lake, (509) 991-9593.
July 13-15: 37th-annual Early Ford V-8 Club Swap Meet, Spokane County Fair and Expo Center, (509) 994-4924.
July 14: Fifth-annual Early Ford V-8 Club Open Show and Shine, 9 a.m., Spokane County Fair and Expo Center, (509) 487-7817; His Rides, third-annual car and motorcycle show, 9 a.m., 3079 E. 16th Ave., Post Falls, (208) 773-7363 or (208) 777-8844; Silverwood sixth-annual Excelerator Car Show (trucks/SUVs), Silverwood Theme Park, Athol, (208) 683-3400, ext. 121.
July 15: Hayden Lake Eagles Show and Shine, 1600 W. Wyoming Ave, Hayden, (208) 777-7020.
July 19: Inland Northwest Car Club Council Downtown Scholarship Car Show, evening, downtown Spokane, (509) 327-5641.
July 20-21: 19th-annual St. Joe Valley Car Show and Dance, downtown St. Maries, (208) 245-2800.
July 21: Just Internationals’ Binder Bash, 8 a.m., Kootenai County Fairgrounds, Coeur d’Alene, (509) 893-2507; Rathdrum Lions Classic Car Show, 10 a.m., junior high football field, Rathdrum, (208) 687-1212 or (509) 926-1370; 17th-annual Rock’n Robin Car Show and Dance, 10 a.m., Rock’n Robin Drive-In, Grand Coulee, (509) 633-1290; Road Knights open car show, 10 a.m., downtown Davenport, (509) 725-7900 or 725-6141; Argonne Village Annual Classic Car Show, 6 p.m.-10 p.m., Argonne Village parking lot, Spokane Valley, (509) 924-3300.
July 25: Bear Creek Lodge Run, 7 p.m., Bear Creek Lodge, Mount Spokane, (509) 238-9114 or 927-9134.
July 27-28: Asphalt Angels Evening Cruise, 7 p.m., downtown, Priest River, (208) 448-0318 or 448-1146, Asphalt Angels Show-n-Shine, 9 a.m., July 28.
July 28: Spokane Corvette Club Glass on Grass Corvette Show, Riverfront Park, downtown Spokane, (509) 922-8142; seventh IEMC Hot Wheels in Millwood Open Show, 2 p.m., Millwood Town Park, (509) 468-8730.