PLEASE BE AWARE COVID RESTRICTIONS COULD APPLY TO THIS EVENT2022 McLaren Vale Vintage & Classic Main Street Parade
The McLaren Vale Vintage & Classic is a GREAT FAMILY day celebration of vintage and classic motoring. A fantastic mix of food, wine, music and the arts together with the energy and passion of motoring enthusiasts. The Event offers the visitor exquisite tastes of the McLaren Vale region’s world-class wines, tantalising gourmet food and classic motor vehicles of a by-gone era.
At 11-00am on Sunday 3rd April the Main Street is closed off to mainstream traffic and the Parade begins. The road will be closed for about one hour for the public to line the streets to watch the cavalcade of vehicles pass by.
Extra special thanks must go to the committee of the McLaren Vale Vintage & Classic. COVID-19 restrictions meant their 2021 fundraising dinner had to be rescheduled and became a lunch, but was extremely successful. Thanks to our wonderful sponsors, we raised one of our greatest ammounts of funds.We were able to donate $13,000 to the hospital. The funds will be used to repair the car park bitumen. We also donated $5000 to the Southern Koala Rescue for a new Rain Water Tank and base.Our two Local CFS units were donated $1000 each for ongoing equipment supplies.
THE CHARITY DINNER will be on the Friday night 1st April before the Main Parade Day on Sunday 3rd April 2022. This year promises to be something special with our Charity Dinner Friday 1st April Guest Speaker 'Jim Richards' (subject to COVID restrictions). We look forward to a fantastic night hearing a bit of the history of a famous motoring icon. We will have live and silent auctions raffles and give aways. Bookings are essential and this will sell out very quickly.
The unique mix of activities has kept thousands of people coming back year after year, set in the relaxed atmosphere of McLaren Vale's wineries and cellar doors offering a combination of vintage and classic cars, food, wine and motoring enthusiasts in an outdoor setting to make this weekend like no other. Our last event in 2021 was restricted to 500 vehicles and 15-20,000 people lining the Main Road for the Grand Parade.
The 2022 event will again support the McLaren Vale & District War Memorial Hospital, the local CFS brigades of McLaren Vale and McLaren Flat and Southern Koala Rescue.
In 2020 we saw the introduction of motorcycles to the event.
THIS YEAR WE ARE AGAIN ENCOURAGING PARTICIPANTS TO DRESS IN THE ERA OF THEIR VEHICLES/ MOTORCYCLES and we are going to award prizes for best dressed and various other combinations. So get out your glad rags and have a go, you could be chosen and win a prize. See details on the Best Dressed page of the website.
