LGBTQ car show comes to Long Beach Sunday, Sept. 19

Great Autos car nine volition bring its Rainbow Car Show to the Marina Pacifica parking batch connected Sunday, Sept. 19.

More than 90 vintage automobiles are expected for the show, which volition beryllium organized by car colour alternatively of exemplary oregon vintage. The show volition beryllium acceptable up from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday successful the batch successful beforehand of the erstwhile Best Buy store.

Great Autos is the largest LGBTQ car amusement connected the West Coast, according to manager Dave Weisbart. This is the archetypal amusement successful Long Beach successful galore years, helium added.

“The quality of the nine is that we judge immoderate make, exemplary oregon twelvemonth of car,” Weisbart said successful an email. “In fact, you don’t adjacent request to ain a car to join, you conscionable person to admit them. Our members are from the LGBT+ assemblage arsenic good arsenic our consecutive friends and allies.”

This amusement and parking is escaped and the archetypal 400 visitors volition person a programme booklet that includes discount coupons and promotions from Marina Pacifica restaurants and merchants.

There volition beryllium unrecorded jazz from the Sam Graham Trio. Spectators volition beryllium asked to ballot for their favourite car to find the People’s Choice Award.

Great Autos is affiliated with different LGBTQ car clubs, including a Northern California 1 called the Freewheelers, with a four-day combined amusement successful Central California. The largest Southern California amusement is the Casual Cancours successful Palm Springs, successful conjunction with Modernism Week there.

This coming year, much than 200 cars volition dispersed retired connected the 15th spread of the Desert Princess Country Club for charity. In 2019, the nine raised much than $16,000 for charity, Weisbart said.

This amusement astatine Marina Pacifica is the archetypal in-person lawsuit since the coronavirus pandemic shutdown. Marina Pacifica is astatine 6272 Pacific Coast Highway, conscionable northbound of Second Street.

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