The Toyota Automobile Museum will hold its 27th Classic Car Festival promoting car culture on Sunday 29 May at the Aichi Expo Memorial Park in Nagakute City, Aichi Prefecture. Admission is free. In addition to a diverse selection of exhibitions and other events to enjoy, a parade of privately-owned Japanese, U.S., and European classic cars dating from 1986 or earlier will be held on the public roads.
For this year’s festival, the number of privately owned cars participating will increases from 100 to about 150 – the largest in the festival’s history. In addition, the park’s Green Square, which was expanded last year, will be used as a venue for events. Another first for the festival will be an exhibition at the Classic Car Studio dedicated to showcasing engine sound performance.
At the same venue, there will be a special exhibition focusing on cars from the 1920s and 1930, an era when the U.S. and European auto industries saw rapid development. It was also the time, of course, when a genuine Japanese auto industry developed. While luxury cars using advanced technology were traveling the roads of the United States and Europe, Japan’s automobile industry was barely getting started. The special exhibit has five classic cars from the museum’s collection that are emblematic of that age, including a Packard Twin Six (1920, United States), Horch 853 (1937, Germany) and a replica <tsk, tsk> Toyoda Model AA (1936, Japan). The cars will be driven on display and demonstration runs at the Classic Car Circuit.
The Toyota Automobile Museum is a cultural facility in Nagakute City belonging to Toyota Motor Corporation. This January, to convey more understandably how the world’s and Japan’s automobile industries evolved in an intertwined manner, the museum revamped its second floor permanent exhibitions, which are “thematically related” to the special exhibition at this year’s festival.
