Hot August Nights

I caught some early morning Show & Shine in downtown Reno on Virginia Street. I wished it would post longer than 12 seconds so you could see all the cool cars I captured!

8/6/2022

It's towards the end of Hot August nights, and being a Reno..ite I thought I should do a review..

I remember long ago, a co-worker would always talk about coming to Reno for Hot August Nights..

Residing now for five years, and it is a great event!

Lots of tourism and great for our community..

It's great to see the enthusiasm still going strong ..


Until next year!

It's Hot August Nights 35th Anniversary! If you love shined up, muscle, and classic cars this is the place for you. You get live music playing on the stage and aisles and aisles of cars spruced up and looking their best for you to view. We were lucky enough to go on a beautiful day. It was a great walk around and a treat to see car models that bring back memories from within our own childhoods.

Throughout the grounds there are vendor stands, from car parts, to food to memorabilia, or if you're into it, you can watch the flawless art of car waxing. To be honest, it's pretty mesmerizing.

The VIP tickets for the events at GSR are awesome. Everything was set up generously. You get both lunch and dinner provided for your day, as well as dessert and drinks in shaded seated areas. Everyone, from participants and judges to viewers are all friendly and ready to introduce themselves and strike up conversations and just have an all around good time. This was actually my first time going and I have to say, I'm sorry I didn't start coming sooner in previous years. Makes me want to muscle car up and get involved!

We attended Saturday this year at the Atlantis. As always the cars were amazing. Pretty disappointed in the food and especially the clothing/craft vendors. Not much going on while we were there. Hopefully there's more going on next year.

We have been in this events since the beginning. We show our car in Sparks. The people in Sparks are almost always very well behaved. A lot of families. It was nice not having fire spewing cars and trucks.

We have been going to HAN since it started in 1986. We always stay at the Peppermiil. We start in Virginia City and then on to Reno and Sparks. We produce a video every year and wind up with 20-25 hours of footage. We edit it down to about 20-40 minutes. Great time, large crowd. Lots of cars, some we havent seen before. The only disappointment were the official Hot August Nights t shirts. Since HAN decided to take over the official stands in Reno, Sparks and virginia city the quality and designs have hit rock bottom. The shirts are cheap $2 tees and they went to two colors instead of multi colrored designs. The designs they did have were all on the front. They only had one design on the back of the shirt. Prices were up 4$ to 28 dollars a shirt. People were walking out empty handed, the tents were not really crowded like years before. We usually spend $500 to $800 dollars on shirts for all of our kids and grandkids. This year we spent nothing. Hopefully that will change next year. Here is a link to last years video 2022 and this years video 2023.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R35b6xwlwUI&t=77s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWN3Sx9XFYo

Come to Reno unexpectedly Thursday. First time at Hot August Nights since I'm not a fan of rowdy busy crowds. Loving all the hot rod cars. Love the sounds, smells, colors and mutual love of cars and the eras. Shut down the surrounding streets downtown and parade started at 7pm. So many cars from so many brands. There are fun trunks, beer vendors and goods to buy in areas on the street. Planning on coming next year but, I will be here Wednesday and Thursday and leave the weekend to the hard-core pros. Vroom - Vroom.

Summers in Reno are always fun-filled. There are events almost every other week and most of them are usually free to attend! Hot August Nights is one of them. It's a week long event celebrating classic hot rods and muscle machines. My uncle back home from Hawaii, who absolutely loves cars, always makes a trip to Reno just for this event.

My friend lives in downtown so Hot August Nights was literally a five minute walk from his condo. When we arrived, we walked down South Virginia Street and we noticed the streets were blocked off and were set up for "The Cruise"; where those classic cars parade around downtown and spectators and car enthusiasts alike watch in admiration.

There are a few food and drink vendors and a couple stages with live bands performing for entertainment. There were also tents posted selling merchandise as well. We didn't stay too long, but these free to attend events are always worth the experience. If you're someone who likes to enjoy the event for what it is, then you'll have a fun time. For car enthusiasts, this event is a no brainer! Looking forward to next year's Hot August Nights.

The smoke & heat ruined this year's event. The turn out was minimal & the Poker Run was a disaster. The visibility in Carson City, Minden and Gardnervulle was less than one block. The climb ro Virgunia City had the 50 year old + cars broken down in the 103° heat.

There were 10 minute gaps on the cruise route in Sparks, but it didn't much matter because so few people showed up to watch the cars go by.

It's been several years since this event has sold out participants. You can only subject people to 55 56 and 57 Chevys for so long before interest wanes.

Such a fun night walking around these vintage classics. Like a kid in the candy store! The Peppermill always has a great turnout and easy to walk around. I can never decide which cars are my favorite, but the people you meet make it fun and enjoyable.