Pardeeville Community 5th Annual Car & Truck Show

Pardeeville Car Show 2008 

The staff of the Pardeeville Car Show would like to thank all who attended the show.

The 2008 Online car show, with hundreds of photos, will soon be ready.

Strolling through beautiful Chandler Park overlooking the picturesque lake in Pardeeville, WI on August, 30 2008, at the 5^th Annual Pardeeville Community Car & Truck Show was a delight to the senses.  God blessed the day with brilliant sunshine, a blue cloudless sky, and fairly low humidity levels.

There is just not a way to adequately describe the unique one of a kind Car Show held in Pardeeville Wisconsin these past five years, however, if one word could do it, it would be Powerful! With Jesus as the guide, the 5th Annual Pardeeville Car Show flowed with over 3,000 visitors and over 400 registered cars on the grounds. It is true that the Pardeeville Car Show was awarded the 2008 Tourism Award for an Outstanding Yearly Event in Columbia County, but even that doesn’t adequately describe the atmosphere of the event.

Where else can you find a clean, family friendly (alcohol free) environment to bring generations together for a day of fun and relaxation? Whether you were able to enjoy the presentation of the history of the Fox River (1600-1900) by taking a ride as early voyagers with Gerald Disterhalf and Glen Gorsuch on the canoes on the lake, or strolled through the grounds to view the wonderful assortment and display of vehicles from the 30 classes entered, or visited the vendor booths, or enjoyed the play areas for the children, you couldn’t help but notice the friendliness of the Pardeeville Car Show Staff. With such a huge show to manage, how could they smile and laugh and seemingly enjoy doing so much work at the same time? God truly blessed the efforts here and the Pardeeville Community Car and Truck Show (PCCTS, Inc) gives Him the glory.

The day was full of sunshine, music, and oh, the tantalizing smells. If you arrived early enough you were able to get in on a breakfast special. Don’t worry if you missed it though as there was plenty of food to go around the rest of the day. The menu at the concessions (which goes to support missions) included the familiar brats, hotdogs, hamburgers, chips and a wide assortment of homemade pies and ice cream. If that wasn’t enough to fill your appetite, there was sweet corn grilling behind the concessions and an ice cream parlor across the way where a crew of young ladies served up sundaes, cones and ice cream in a bowl. If you found yourself still hungry, the younger girls at the show made sure there was ample opportunity to purchase cookies as they made the rounds throughout the day.

New this year was a class for vintage, historic and nostalgic race cars where spectators had the chance to vote on their favorite one. There were 25 judges on the grounds that day to award 102 trophies to many deserving vehicles. If you had the chance to stroll through the park, you might have seen the car used by Johnny Depp in the upcoming film, Public Enemies.

The Pardeeville Car Show draws in people from all over the world including missionaries on the grounds that day from Ethiopia, Africa, GLBC in Madison, and SIM. We met people from Missouri, Illinois, New York and Iowa.

We would be amiss if we did not share the fun on the grounds that day which included 47 tractors for show. It was great to mingle and hear the stories of the machines and the history of some of them.

We would encourage you to come and experience for yourself what the Pardeeville Car Show has to offer. The event is always held on the Saturday of Labor Day weekend in beautiful Chandler Park in Pardeeville, Wisconsin. This is truly one show you do not want to miss. ~ (ALJ)