While there are plenty of car shows every weekend, this one deserves your special attention.

For the past 17 years, Classic Corvettes of Minnesota (CCOM) has sponsored a car show to raise funds for the Minneapolis Veterans Home.

If you attended last year thank you. 200 vehicles participated and raised over $5,600 dollars. The monies were generated from registrations, raffle items, T-shirt sales and generous donations. We’ve added additional parking spaces this year.

The Veterans Home provides 24-hour skilled-care nursing to approximately 300 veterans, has 50 short-term care beds and its adult day care center cares for up to 30 veterans five days a week, 8 hours a day.

The Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs provides funding for care, but the recreation budget relies completely on donations from support organizations like CCOM and the community. No operating dollars support those activities.

Tom Peters, retired Director of Exterior Design, for the C6, C7, and C8 and GM Performance Car Studio, and his wife Carolyn, also a former GM designer are planning to attend our event. Tom designed a Vettes for Vets T-shirt exclusively for this event. We will have a limited number of men’s and women’s T-shirts available for purchase.

The American Legion will be serving breakfast, brats, hamburgers, and roasted corn on the cob during the car show.