President Tomás Hernández

May 2024Hi South Florida Region members, So far, we have been busy with all of our car shows. If you didn’t know, we are one of the busiest car clubs in the AACA; many of the other clubs just have one car show a year.
For a quick rundown, we just did the River Cities Festival, a two-day car show in Miami Springs on April 13th and 14th and are getting ready for our picnic on April 28th at Larry and Penny Thompson Park. We have 100 members that have pre-registered. In all my years of being in our club, that is the most we have had in a long time. It is being catered by Shorty’s Bar-B-Que. We ask our members to bring a side dish or a desert. There will be prizes for the best home-made side dish and dessert.

Our club had been invited to bring antiques cars to two retirement communities. The first is at East Ridge Retirement Village in Cutler Bay on May 18th and the second will be held at the Pacifica Senior Living Center Car Show in Broward County on June 1st. This will be a good time to give back to our community by letting our seniors relive some memories.
If you haven’t already applied for Memory Lane and you want your antique car or truck or motorcycle to be accepted, you need to register for the event which will run from August 30th through September 8th.

We are also working on this year’s holiday party venue. For those members who put a car in Memory Lane
you’ll get one free ticket for the holiday party. Hopefully, we will have a great turnout for this year’s holiday
party like last year. Registration is open for the Lake Mirror Classic Concours and Car Show October 18-20. It’s a great show, and if you haven’t been there, I encourage you to go even if you don’t want to register a car. Just go and see the street car show and Concours.
I hope you enjoy your car club and remember, if you have any questions or ideas, please let me know and I will bring it up to the board.

Drive safely, see you all soon,

Tomás Hernández, President
A.A.C.A. South Florida Region