Lebanon Route 66 Festival & Car Show

Pre-registration for the Lebanon Route 66 Festival Car Show on June 1 will be extended to the day of the festival.

Registration is not required to drive in the parade, but those who pay the $20 registration fee will receive an official festival T-shirt, a decal, a photo of their car in a cardboard frame, as it drives in the parade, and a sponsor bag of goodies. Registered vehicles also will be eligible for “people’s choice” awards in the Car Show at Boswell Park after the parade.

Pre-registration can be done by clicking here. 

Drivers also may register the day of the festival when they arrive at Boswell Park. The fee that day will be $25.

Lineup will be at 11 a.m., one hour before the parade rolls, on Wyota Drive in the Lebanon Industrial Park, east of Lebanon on Route 66. The parade and the festival start are two hours later than in recent years so the weather will be cooler for the day’s climactic event, the Baldknobbers’ concert, at 6 p.m. at the Boswell Park Amphitheater.

Between 100 and 150 classic, antique and custom cars normally participate in the parade, which starts at the Lebanon Industrial Park, heads west on Route 66 and at Boswell Park.

One change from previous years is that drivers who don’t want to participate in the parade may arrive at Boswell Park early. They will be directed to the parking lot on the south side of the festival grounds. Vehicles participating in the parade will enter on 66 Mural Drive, as usual.

Trophies will be awarded to the first-, second- and third-place registered vehicles as judged by those attending the festival. Judging will be by tickets, which will sell for 25 cents each or five for $1, with proceeds going to the Pregnancy Support Center in Lebanon. Each registered vehicle will have a bucket for collecting tickets.

“Spoof” trophies chosen by the Route 66 Society also will be awarded, as usual.

The parade is sponsored by Graven Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram.

The Route 66 Festival, presented for the second year by Lake Regional Health System, officially starts at noon.