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Organizers of the 2024 Highlands Motoring Festival said the annual event was successful by every measure including financial support to local human needs charities.
The Highlands Motoring Festival is held each year at Founders Park and raises money for local 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.
Pictured at the top of the article is the check presentation at Founders Park. From left are 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.
HMF includes a drive down Main Street showing off their wheels.
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 opens in early January, 2025.
Learn more information about HMF HERE.
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