St. Ignace Car Show 2023 Drone Footage 6/24/23

Aerial highlights of the 47th annual car show Saturday in downtown St. Ignace, Michigan courtesy of the Great Lakes Drone Service.

History of the St. Ignace car Show:

Ed Reavie, a small town high school pushout and grocery clerk who dreamt of meeting all his car culture legends and heroes and soon realized there were too many to meet in his lifetime. Instead, he set out to create an event, so incredible, so different, so exciting, and one that shook the automotive world to the point all those legends came to his small town, a town with no traffic lights, to meet him.

A hopeless car geek, Ed relentlessly marketed his show and brought Carroll Shelby, Zora Arkus-Duntov, Gordon Buehrig, William Mitchell, George Barris, "Big Daddy" Don Garlits, Linda Vaughn, Tom Gale, "Big Daddy" Ed Roth, stars from American Graffiti, and pop culture and cars ranging from the third ever built Corvette, an $8 million Bugatti Royale, Rat Rods, The Batmobile, scores of Shelby Cobras, Vipers, Auburn Boat-tail Speedsters, and just about every type imaginable and filled his town with 3,000 show cars and 100,000 people.

Inspired by American Graffiti, Ed Reavie created the greatest cruise night event in the country while holding concerts featuring 16 of the Top 200 acts of the 1960s. Ed was the paradigm shift of the show car world, changing how car shows were produced and presented. Soon, promoters across the country used his blue print for success, taking cars out of fairgrounds and parking lots, and incorporating their city and town into the show.

The St. Ignace Car Show featured two miles of cars parked on the shoreline of Lake Huron and forever changed car culture. When Ed was 25, he accepted a challenge from a Michigan State Police Trooper to drag his 1965 GTO against the Mopar Powered State Police Car. Read on to learn what happened during the three heats on the under construction I-75 Highway out side of town on a cool Sunday morning in 1965.

Sound fantastical? Sean Reavie, his father's son, and first time author, brings this incredible story to life with never before heard behind the scenes tales of Carroll Shelby and Ed getting pulled over by the police, a Cruise Night so legendary for its mayhem it nearly shut down an entire city, and the unbelievable, gut wrenching internal struggle that shattered Ed's family as his show was gaining world wide fame.

Come on in, sit on down, and read about a rebel who never took no for an answer and built a car show of legendary stature in a town so remote, it had no stop lights and in the process, Ed became a peer to his heroes. This only in American tale of success is something that must be read to be believed.

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