This Sunday from sunrise to sunset, Golden Gate Park’s Speedway Meadow will host Jimmy’s 21st Annual Old Car Picnic.
The event started in 1988 when classic car-loving friends got together in Golden Gate Park. It has grown into the largest and longest-running show of its kind in the city and includes cars, trucks, and motorcycles of all types. As long as they were made before 1972.
According to their website, Jimmy’s Picnic welcomes “rat rods, lowriders, perfectly restored cars, historic vehicles, clunkers and beaters, motorcycles, race cars, fire trucks, cars that only go out on Sundays, all kinds of customs, steamboats…”. Rat rods? I’ve seen rats in the park before. I didn’t know they had wheels too.
Admission is free, but the event raises money from the car owners that come to exhibit. All proceeds benefit the SF Recreation & Park Department’s Adaptive Recreation Programs for the developmentally disabled. Have a pre-1972 car that you want to show off? Check the website for details.
This is a really fun event that draws lots of great cars. I went one year and sat in the rumble seat of an old Ford and shot back in time in the passenger seat of a red and white ’56 Chevy.
Thanks to Woody for the tip.
Sarah B.
Wow….great cars! Thanks for including the picture in the blog. Jimmie’s always lots of fun for all ages and and a healthy family outing. Looking forward to it again this year.
VROOM! Wonderful show, no commercialism, folks here are proud of their cars. Without the velvet ropes you can get close although be careful( no touching mostly- please see if there is a sign or ask the owner). Go early in the morning to see the parade of cars coming in and smell the bacon cooking. Yep this is about America, cars, meet, chrome!From an elderly 29 Lincoln to grandpas sedan and Ah yes, the rat rod. A car that is not finished on purpose, cool no? Beep beep!