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16th Annual Downtown Hutchinson
​Rod Run & Classic Car Show

​• October 6–7, 2023 •


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Registration for the 2023 Downtown Hutch Rod Run is now open! We are excited about another GREAT turnout this year! Grab your registration early! We have REDUCED registration prices this year!
visit: www.downtownhutchrodrun.com to register online.

** 𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗱𝗼 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝗣𝗮𝘆𝗽𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗮𝘆 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲. 𝗢𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝘆𝗽𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲, 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝘀𝗲 "𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗴𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁/𝗽𝗮𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝗱𝗲𝗯𝗶𝘁 𝗼𝗿 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗱" 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.

– Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cs9QDvIsnPo/

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– Image source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CxRaPPtsEeG/

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– Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CxWj09nt3of/

Hutch Rec Announces the Return of Hutch Fest in Fall 2023
Mon, July 10, 2023 by Aaron Napier


HUTCHINSON, Kan. – Hutch Rec, in partnership with the Downtown Hutch Rod Run, is bringing back the popular community festival Hutch Fest in Fall 2023.

Hutch Fest will take place October 6 & 7 in Downtown Hutchinson and will include feature events as well as live music, family-friendly community activities, food, and various entertainment. More information is available on the Hutch Fest web page, as well as the Hutch Fest social media pages on Facebook and Instagram.

At this time, featured events include:

Downtown Hutchinson Rod Run: Oct. 6 & 7
The annual Downtown Hutchinson Rod Run & Classic Car Show starts at noon on Friday, Oct. 6, and continues through the evening of Oct. 7. This two-day event features hot rods, classic and antique cars, trucks, and motorcycles, as well as a Show & Shine, Main Street Cruise, vendor demonstrations, food trucks, and more. More details are available on the Downtown Hutch Rod Run website.

– Source, more: ​https://www.adastraradio.com/adastra-news/hutch-rec-announces-the-return-of-hutch-fest-in-fall-2023

16TH ANNUAL ROD RUN IN HUTCHINSON BRINGS PEOPLE DOWNTOWN
Friday was day one of the 16th annual Rod Run in Hutchinson.

– By KAKE.com, Oct. 6, 2024

Webmaster note: Click on link for KAKE News TV video segment featuring the 16th Annual Downtown Hutchinson Rod Run & Classic Car Show, including remarks from Rod Run President Jim Gruver: https://www.kake.com/clip/15426074/16th-annual-rod-run-in-hutchinson-brings-people-downtown 

Downtown Hutch Rod Run Starts Friday
By HutchPost.com

– Posted Oct 05, 2023 9:53 AM

NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post

HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The annual Downtown Hutchinson Rod Run & Classic Car Show is an event that draws approximately 25,000 visitors to downtown Hutchinson the first weekend of October.

"Classic doesn't particularly mean old," said Jim Gruver with the car show. There's cars that have been restored, you know, and some of them, I think, better than the new cars. We accept all classes. We've got 19 different categories that people can put their vehicles in. Not just cars, trucks, motorcycles, anything on wheels, bring it on down."

The event includes a Show & Shine of beautiful hot rods, classic and antique cars, trucks and motorcycles, a Main Street Cruise, vendor demonstrations, great food & drinks all weekend. If you want to bring a car, though, they need to know right away.

"If somebody still wants to register, today's the last day to do registration," Gruver said Thursday. "The only place they can do that is Cabinet Connections downtown. If they want to stop in there and get pre-registered, that's one of the things nobody else does is we have designated parking spots for people to come both days and park in the same place and park by your buddy."

Another new thing this year is a poker run that will be part of the Cruise Main event on Friday night.

"We start our cruise Friday night at 6:00 p.m.," Gruver said. "That's always a fun thing. We just have kind of adopted a drag Main type event that evening. People can drag Main, they can go around town, do whatever they want to. Along with that this year, we're doing a poker pun. Anybody that's registered can join in the poker run and they'll leave the same time as the cruise. They'll drop off at 23rd and Main and go through the Fairgrounds. We have five different spots at the Fairgrounds that they can pick their cards up and see what kind of a hand that they can get."

The full schedule of events is available at https://www.downtownhutchrodrun.com/.

– Source: ​https://hutchpost.com/posts/c7ac380a-cf25-466d-be22-e6fada72c8c3

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Join us for the 16th annual Downtown Hutch Rod Run!

For both days visitors will be surrounded by some of the most beautiful hot rods, street rods, rat rods, antique and classic cars, trucks, motorcycles and wrapped vehicles to be found for our "Show & Shine".

Friday night registered vehicles will have the opportunity to line up and "Cruise Main" just like in the old days! New to the Rod Run this year is a pin up show! Register to enter by visiting our website at www.downtownhutchrodrun.com

The show ends Saturday with awards and entertainment!


Pre-Registration for the 2023 Rod Run will begin June 1st. You can also participate by registering in person the day of the event! Registration takes place at 16 E Ave A beginning at Noon on Friday.

– Source: 
https://www.visithutch.com/upcoming-events/p/event/20900/2023-downtown-hutchinson-rod-run​

2023 Downtown Hutch Rod Run Results
Posted Oct 09, 2023 4:00 AM


HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The 2023 Downtown Hutch Rod Run started off in the cloudy cool air on Friday, but soon bustled with cars across Main and its side streets. 

There were 19 award classes in total and nine specialty classes. 

All Cars original or Restored: 

– Source, more, including photos: https://hutchpost.com/posts/113e446d-6419-4146-9516-d64fb7e91d25

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2023 Downtown Hutchinson Rod Run & Classic Car Show "Best of Show" winner: CKCA members Craig and Mary Barkley's beautiful 1956 Chevrolet Bel Air
– Photo contributed by CKCA members Jim and Debby Gruver

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CKCA member Craig Barkley receiving his "Best of Show" trophy, which also earned the Barkley's the privilege of having their car used in the graphics for the 2024 Downtown Hutchinson Rod Run & Classic Car Show!

Hutchinson Rod Run Pin-Up Show – 2023
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Hutchinson man's Biscayne just one example of classics at Rod Run
Hutch Post – October 8, 2023


HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Several local car owners entered their cars in the 2023 Downtown Hutch Rod Run.  Terry Brigman of Hutchinson brought his 1959 Prowler Orange Chevrolet Biscayne. He sold a Chevrolet Corvette to acquire the Biscayne. 
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Terry Brigman's 1959 Chevy Biscayne was on display at the Downtown Hutch Rod Run on October 7, 2023. Photo by Emmie Boese.
– Source, more: ​https://hutchpost.com/posts/c5570283-d6c6-4d58-865e-202e8ce40e3e

2023 Downtown Hutch Rod Run
HutchPost.com
Posted Oct 07, 2023 12:15 PM


HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Take a look back at the 2023 Downtown Hutch Rod Run. Photos by Emmie Boese.
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Don and Ann Sturgeon's 1958 Chevrolet Impala
– Source, more photos: ​https://hutchpost.com/posts/3260fe45-9246-4022-835a-90db825b315f

On October 7, 2023 we did a drive-by past the "Hutch Cam" at the Flag Theater at 3rd and Main during the 2023 Downtown Hutch Rod Run & Classic Car Show for our son, a retired US Army vet who was in the middle of some well-deserved R&R down in Buenos Aires at the time. We texted him as we were leaving the venue so he could be watching for our Corvette, and unbeknownst to us, he recorded our drive-by and subsequently uploaded it to YouTube!

Notice the "VOTE FOR BEER FREEDOM" sign that Denise is holding out the window and up at the camera, to make it easier to spot us (and also to support Sandhills Brewing); the fellow pushing the stroller across the street behind us (absolutely perplexed as to what the heck we were waving at, and then even more dumbfounded when we began backing up); and the crazy-cool lowrider that comes bouncing in from the right.

​Full-screen and volume up! You can actually hear the band rocking out down at DCI Park, and the lowrider as he bangs and clangs his way down Main Street. Good times!

– Contributed by CKCA members Gerald & Denise Haughton

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• 2023 Hutch Rod Run Burn Out Competition Hutchinson, Kansas Chevy Short Bed Square Body
  By Retro Video Archive

  – YouTube link: ​https://youtu.be/e6nUNXsf9LA

• 2023 Hutch Rod Run Motorcycle Burn Out Competition
  By Retro Video Archive

  – YouTube link: 
https://youtu.be/I0HLF0vWoco

• Hutch Fest 2023 Highlights
  By Hutch Rec

  – YouTube link: 
https://youtu.be/Oiqw1i2c5NU​

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