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Highlands Motoring Festival Presents Funds to Charities
Written By: Highlands Motoring Festival | Issue: Whats News | Photograph By: Becky Nixon
The eighteenth annual Highlands Motoring Festival® will be on June 12-15, 2025.
Pictured left to right: Craig Nixon, Steve Ham, Lester Norris, Ricky Siegel, Faviola Olvera, Steve Mehder, David Moore, Cindy Trevathan, and Bonnie Potts. The vehicle is an original 1913 Buick owned by David and Amy Noznesky. (Photo credit: Becky Nixon)
The 2024 Highlands Motoring Festival® was very successful by every measure including financial support to local human needs charities. To commemorate this accomplishment, there was a presentation of the funds to the three human needs charities. Representatives for the Literacy and Learning Center of Highlands, REACH of Macon County, and the Community Care Clinic of Highlands and Cashiers along with HMF volunteers and Town officials were on hand for the official check presentation.
The festival’s net proceeds of $105,000 have been distributed equally between the three charity organizations. Highlands Motoring Festival® is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and is an all-volunteer team of classic car enthusiasts.
The seventeenth annual Highlands Motoring Festival® was held on June 6-9, 2024. Amazing collector cars could be seen on town streets during the four-day festival which consisted of two days of driving tours, an evening gathering, a Main Street of Classics parade, and two car shows.
The centerpiece of the motoring festival was Saturday’s “Classics in the Park” juried car show that attracted thousands of people to experience eighty-five classic cars. The motoring festival has grown significantly in stature over the years, by raising the quality level of the cars by going to an invitational entry process. Increasing the number of show cars is not feasible due to the limited capacity of Kelsey Hutchinson Park.
Over fifty volunteers joined the fifteen-member planning committee to stage the events. The Highlands Motoring Festival® Committee would like to thank the entire Highlands community, including citizens, volunteers, businesses, organizations, and Town officials and staff, without whom none of this would have been possible.
The eighteenth annual Highlands Motoring Festival® will be on June 12-15, 2025. Along with other classic cars, the featured theme for 2025 will be “The Cars of Enzo Ferrari”. Registration is opens in early January 2025 at: www.HighlandsMotoringFestival.com
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Thursday June 12, 2025
“One Lap of the Mountains- Grande”- Driving Tour 8:00am-4pm
Friday June 13, 2025
“One Lap of the Mountains- Petite” Driving Tour 9:00am to 4pm
Main Street Parade of Classic Cars 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Saturday June 14, 2025
“Classics in the Park” Invitational Judged Car Show in the Kelsey-Hutchinson Park 9:30am to 4pm
“HMF Gala” at WCCC 6pm to 9pm
Sunday June 15, 2025
“High Octane” Social and Car Gathering in Kelsey-Hutchinson Park. 8:30am to 11am.
