The best-looking and loudest cars in town roll into Lansdale Saturday for the 33rd annual Fairmount Fire Company “Under the Lights” car show.
“This show is the biggest fundraiser that the fire company does each year,” said Fairmount Fire Co. Chief Engineer Ian Fickert. “It helps to provide funds to buy new equipment and maintain the equipment we currently have.”
Each year, the show has 22 classes of cars. Fickert said each class has a first, second, and third place winner, with each getting a trophy. Winners must be present to win trophies.
Registration remains open and entrants can register up to the day of the show on Cannon Avenue between 3 p.m. and 6:30 p.m., Fickert said. The cost is $15 for pre-registration until Thursday, then $20 day of event. Checks made payable to “Fairmount Fire Company.”
On Thursday, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., entrants can register at Fairmount Fire Co. firehouse, 100 Vine St., Lansdale, he said. Registration is limited to 650 entries for the entire show.
The Classes this year are the following: 1900-1940 Antique; 1941-1950 Antique; 1951-1960 Antique; 1961-1966 Antique; 1965-1980 Factory Stock; Street Rods Pre-1950; Jeeps (first 50 entries only); Street Machines 1950-1959; Street Machines 1960-1969; Street Machines 1970-1979; Street Machines 1980-1990; Firebird Pre-1990; Thunderbird Pre-1990; Corvette Pre-1990; Mustang Pre-1990; Camaro Pre-1990; Foreign Pre-1990; Trucks Pre-1990; Special Interest (committee discretion); Pro Street; All Tuner (First 50 entries only) and Modern Muscle (first 50 entries only).
Everything revs up at 7 p.m., with awards handed out at 10 p.m. The event is rain or shine.
Fairmount Fire Co. There will also be awards for People’s Choice, Ladies Choice, Mayor’s Choice, Chief’s Choice and Best of Show.
Dash plaques are given to all pre-registered cars.
“Cars will roll onto Main Street starting at 4 p.m.,” Fickert said. All cars not taking part in the event must be removed from Main Street hours prior to the event on Saturday.
Food vendors will be stationed along intersections at Main Street.
“We will again have Larry the Wiesel as our DJ. He has been the DJ for every car show we have done,” Fickert said.
According to Fairmount Fire Company’s website, the car show has been a tradition and staple in Lansdale since 1991:
“A long, wide and straight Main Street. A June Saturday night when the brightness of day yields reluctantly to dusk. Block after block of custom and antique cars buffed to better-than-new brilliance. Tens of thousands of on-lookers strolling the middle of a state highway remembering or dreaming of that special ride that would make them the talk of the neighborhood and the envy of their friends. Those are the ingredients that make Fairmount’s Under-the Lights Car Show, now in its third decade, the success that it is.”
As mentioned publicly, the car show will be the only massive vehicle event in Lansdale this year, as Lansdale Bike Night has been canceled for 2024.
