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DR. GEORGE CHARITY CAR SHOW, FEBRUARY 8, 2025

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The 22nd Annual Dr. George Charity Car Show was held February 8, 2025 in the Tennis Garden in Indian Wells, CA. Below we have posted the award winners and the pedal car races. Now we’ll fill you in on the rest of the show. In keeping with past tradition, as the show opened the Palm Springs Air Museum provided a flyover by a Douglas C-47 Skytrain. The C-47 was the military version of the civilian DC-3 airplane and was primarily used as a troop carrier. The C-47 was in use by the military for over 35 years and was retired in 1975. The wings and fuselage of this C-47 were painted with a highly visible paint scheme – alternating black and white stripes. The stripes were added to the C-47 planes used during the assault on Normandy in World War II. The stripes, known as invasion stripes, allowed for ready identification of friendly forces by the allied artillery. Below is the C-47 flyover by the Palm Springs Air Museum. Again this year, the show did not disappoint when it comes to the variety of vehicles in attendance. The newest generation of the Ford GT shown below is but one such car. The new Corvette Z06 with a 670 horse power 5 liter mid-engine. The 1953 Corvette, the first Corvette introduced by Chevrolet is another. Custom creations, such as this 1955 Cadillac, were on display. As was this iconic 1934 Ford hot rod. And one of the most popular classics – the 1956 Chevrolet Bel Air. Military vehicles remind us of our history and are always interesting. According the the website Kaiserwillys.com the white 5-pointed star on the bumper identifies this jeep as belonging to a tactical unit. All the visible numbers/symbols mean something. For example, on the hood “Jeeps always had the prefix 20, which stood for ‘reconnaissance’ followed by the vehicle’s registration number. For the first 99,999 jeeps, this was a 5 digit number; later jeeps had 6 digits.” On the front bumper the Arabic numeral followed by a triangle 3 inches high with ¼-inch stroke denotes an armored division. There were many vehicles in the Tennis Garden, however, space allows only a few to be highlighted here. For those who don’t know, the proceeds from this show are donated to the Desert Cancer Foundation. Next year the Dr. George Charity Car Show will be held February 14, 2026. As you can see, it’s well worth attending. TROPHY WINNERS AND PEDAL CARS COVERAGE IS BELOW. The 22nd Annual Dr. George Charity Car Show was held February 8, 2025 in the Tennis Garden in Indian Wells, CA. This year, like all past years, found the Tennis Garden filled to capacity with some very amazing vehicles. A special few of these vehicles took home a trophy. This year in addition to Best of Show and Best of Show Special Interest, the David George Memorial Trophy was awarded. David George, who passed away in 2010, was the son of Dr. George, the namesake of the event. BEST OF SHOW – 1956 FORD PICKUP BEST OF SHOW SPECIAL INTEREST -1957 CHEVROLET PICKUP THE DAVID GEORGE MEMORIAL AWARD – 1947 CADILLAC All of the winners displayed a tri-colored ribbon. Below are other award winners. One of the more popular events held during the show is the pedal car races. The racers line up, get a push start, and race to the end. The racers give it all they’ve got. Below is the winner of the 2025 pedal car races. When the races are over, all the pedal cars are auctioned off with all auction proceeds going to the Desert Cancer Foundation. This year one of the pedal cars sold for $800. More photos and a complete run-down of the show will be posted by Monday evening. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ FRIDAY – FEBRUARY 7, 2025 The Dr. George Show will officially be open on Saturday, February 8, 2025 in the Tennis Garden in Indian Wells, CA. However, the event began today (Friday) with parking selection. From 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. show participants could pick out and save a parking spot for Saturday and could leave their car in the Tennis Garden overnight. Many participants took advantage of the early parking. Some of the cars in the Tennis Garden today are shown below. T Tomorrow the Tennis Garden will be filled with cars spectators and vendors. The show will kick off with singing the National Anthem. As all the shows in the past have been, we expect tomorrow will be an outstanding event. And if the today’s weather repeats tomorrow, there will be sunny blue skies with temps in the upper 70’s. We’ll post complete coverage of the event with photos Monday night.

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THE 18TH ANNUAL DR. GEORGE SHOW, FEBRUARY 8, 2020

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THE DR. GEORGE SHOW, Saturday, February 8, 2020, Tennis Garden, Indian Wells, CA This Pontiac Firebird ‘Bandit’ car won the Young Guns trophy. A ’53 highly customized Kaiser won best of show. The other award winners are below. The photos above can be seen on our SmugMug site and are available for purchase. Click on the SmugMug icon: Today’s automotive enthusiasts have come to embrace more variety in car shows. The Dr. George Show has been one of the few shows to take full advantage of this trend. The Dr. George Show has no limitations on make or vintage of entries and as a result the Show has continually grown to become hugely successful. This year – the 18th Annual Dr. George Show welcomed cars from late model Corvettes, to movie cars, to 30’s coach-built cars and nearly everything in between. The Dr. George Show is one of the few where you can see a rat rod in the awards ceremony line. This rat rod was an award winner and offered the owner’s commentary on the “baby on board” sticker. Another plus for The Dr. George Show is that it is a charity event. Proceeds from the Show goes to the Desert Cancer Foundation. The Show takes it’s name from Dr. Sebastian George, a local oncologist and co-founder of the Desert Cancer Foundation, who died in an automobile accident. After this year’s Show, the Palm Springs Cruisin’ Association will have given over $1 million to the Desert Cancer Foundation. Folks at the show are pleased to contribute to these good works. The show opened with the posting of the colors by the U.S. Marines from the the Marine base in Twentynine Palms and the National Anthem was performed by Alisha Bates. The Dr. George Show includes numerous activities – in fact with almost 1,100 cars to look at – it’s nearly impossible to take in all of the activities available. Again this year, Bob Beck hosted Car Talk with Peter Brock (the designer of the ’63 Vette and the Shelby Daytona Coupe), Allen Grant (Former Shelby employee and driver of the World Champion Daytona) and Jim McGee (Hall of Fame Indy Crew Chief). When Jim McGee wasn’t enlightening an audience with stories of his past glories, he was making a few laps in the Pennzoil Bumper Car. For the first time this year, Tate Auctions held a car auction during the Show. There were about 25 vehicles available to be auctioned off. These vehicles included hot rods, newer cars, a 30’s luxury car, even a customized motorcycle. This customized motorcycle is a 1983 Honda complete with a side-car. It was one of the vehicles being auctioned off by Tate Auctions. Another activity offered was fire-ups of two nostalgia dragsters. The dragster on the left was driven by Tommy Ivo. In the late 50’s Ivo drove this dragster with its Buick engine to a World ET record. On the right is the Bivens & Fisher Checkmate top fuel dragster, a nitro car drive by Jerry Bevins in the 60’s. On hand were the stars of the current movie Ford vs. Ferrari, which are shown above. The movie told the story of Ford’s successful efforts to win the Le Mans auto race away from Ferrari. The role of Carroll Shelby was played by Matt Damon and the part of Ken Miles was played by Christian Bale. One activity that started at last year’s show, and returned again this year, is the pedal car racing. If you haven’t seen 10 three and four year-old kids race pedal cars, you’ve missed something pretty exciting. After Mom gives a little encouragement, the kids are ready to race. The first lap of the pedal car race is underway and these kids had a great time. Lined up behind the cars and drivers are the pedal car crews which are necessary to give a push start to each car. After the trophies were presented, the winner took a victory lap in the Pennzoil Bumper Car with Jim McGee. All of the kids, drivers and crew, received one of these ‘gold’ medallions. After the race was over, Tate Auctions auctioned off four of the pedal cars. The money raised will go 50% to the YMCA and 50% to the Desert Cancer Foundation. This is Leo. His Dad said we could take his picture if we could get him to stand still. We couldn’t but were lucky to get the photo while he was on the move. This is a photo of Florence and her big brother Hugo – he’s five – posing in front of their favorite car. Bodie was sitting still in the shade and made for a perfect model. Throughout all of these goings on – folks had to make time to see the cars – and there were plenty to see. The car above is a recreation of the Eleanor car from the movie Gone in 60 Seconds. >The photos above can be seen our SmugMug site and are available for purchase. Click on the SmugMug icon: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2020 Dr. George Show, Tennis Garden, Indian Wells, CA Today the Tennis Garden was full – about 1,100 cars, many exhibition cars, food and merchandise vendors, and many, many spectators. It was quite a day. The showed ended with the awards ceremony. Below is a photo of the Best of Show. This car created from a 1954 Kaiser is named VooDoo Sahara. There will be more about this car in our Monday evening post. The award winning cars lined up waiting for the awards ceremony. Below are photos of a few cars at the show and there will be many more posted on Monday evening when we get home. There will be more photos and an article […]

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THE 17th ANNUAL DR. GEORGE SHOW, INDIAN WELLS, CA – FEB. 9, 2019

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NEW: MANY CAR PHOTOS HAVE BEEN ADDED BELOW THE PEDAL CAR RACES. THE DR. GEORGE SHOW 2019 was held on Feb. 9 in the Indian Wells Tennis Garden, Indian Wells, CA. This was the 17th Annual Dr. George Show and about 1,000 cars filled the Tennis Garden. BEST OF SHOW: BEST OF SHOW – YOUNG GUNS The photos above, as well as additional photos of the award winners, can be seen our SmugMug site and are available for purchase. Click on the SmugMug icon: THE FIRST ANNUAL DR. GEORGE SHOW PEDAL CAR RACES: A determined group of 12 racers took to the lanes at the Dr. George Show on Saturday. The racers were divided into two groups of six which raced to the finish line. The top three racers in each round went on to the final round – only one could be victorious. Ford racing legend Allen Grant dropped the green flag and they were off. The Tom’s Garage car was a winner in the first round. The AAA car crossed the finish line first in the final round to take the overall win. After the race all the cars gathered for the awards ceremony and post-race interviews. Below are more photos of the pedal car races. Again this year after presentation of the U.S. Flag by the Color Guard from the Twentynine Palms Marine Base, the Palm Springs Air Museum did a fly over with a C47-Dakota. THE CARS : Lindsay, Julie and David were taking in the sights when they stopped to look at this 1959 El Camino. Bob Beck hosted Mecum Auction Commentator John Kraman in a car talk; and, also hosted another Car Talk with Peter Brock, designer of the 1963 Corvette and the Shelby Daytona Coupe, Allen Grant, former Shelby Employee and Driver of a World Champion Daytona and Jim McGee, F-1 & Indy Car Hall of Fame Crew Chief. However, the cars were the Show and there were some spectacular cars in the Tennis Garden. Besides cars there were motorcycles: And rat rods: and more cars: And of course the unusual: And Volkswagens: And more cars: And of course the Dr. George Show includes fire trucks. The Dr. George Show, however, is about more than the cars. This event was started to honor Dr. Sebastian George a nationally prominent oncologist and co-founder of the Desert Cancer Foundation (DCF). Dr. George was killed in a traffic accident in 2002. The proceeds from this event go to the DCF to enable it to help cancer patients pay for their treatments when they lack funds to do so. Since its inception, the Dr. George show has raised over $847,000 for the DCF. The 18th Dr. George Show will be held February 8, 2020. See our SmugMug site for photos available for purchase. Click on the SmugMug icon: _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The Dr. George Show, which officially starts on Saturday Feb. 9, opened it’s gates today (Friday) to allow cars with reserved parking to enter. A mini-car show resulted from the cars that were being left overnight giving an advance look at some of the spectacular cars that will be in the show. Registration for the show, which is limited to 1,000 cars, is sold out. Tomorrow promises to be an eye-catching event. The venue for the event is the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. Below is a sneak peak at the 2019 Dr. George Show: There are numerous activities planned for tomorrow including a race. Twelve beautifully painted vehicles will face off and race for the trophy – and we’ll cover the action. That’s right – pedal cars. The drivers will be little tykes but none-the-less determined to be victorious. We always knew that the Dr. George Show attracted cars from both the U.S. and Canada – but now it seems the show’s reach covers all of the Americas. This license plate was affixed to a very unique rat rod. We’ll have more coverage of the event posted on Monday night including the award winners. This year the awards include three Best of Show winners – one in the category Young Guns (for owners under 30), one in the category specialty cars, and one overall show winner.

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THE 16TH ANNUAL DR. GEORGE CHARITY CAR SHOW, INDIAN WELLS, CA FEBRUARY 10, 2018

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The 16th Annual Dr. George Show, Indian Wells, CA Feb. 10, 2018. This show is sponsored by the Palm Spring Cruisin’ Association (PSCA) to benefit the Desert Cancer Foundation. Last year PSCA was able to donate $82,000 to the Foundation. These funds will help make it possible for a lot of folks to get the care and treatment they need. No matter your taste in vehicles, you’ll find it at The Dr. George Show. From the new: To the old: The shiny: The not-so-shiny: Perhaps the toughest truck ever built: We’ve heard of skeletons in the closet – but skeletons in the grille? In addition to the 1,000 vehicles at the show there were other things going on including Car Talk hosted by Bob Beck with Overhaulin’ crew and friends, Andreas Somogyi. Bob Beck also hosted a Car Talk with Peter Brock, famed designer of the 1963 Corvette and the Shelby Daytona Coupe, Alan Grant, former Shelby employee and driver of a world champion Daytona Coupe, and Jim McGee, Formula 1 and Indy Car Hall of Fame Crew Chief. From left to right are Brock, Grant and McGee. Below is Jim McGee’s Model A – the license plate reads “1 Indy 4X”. This Cobra is owned by Alan Grant. This nifty panel, outfitted with drawers patterned after a Helms Bakery truck, was used to sell donuts for a donation to benefit veterans. (Yum – good donuts). And speaking of veterans – the Palm Springs Air Museum did a flyover with the C-47 Skytrain military transport which was used by the U.S. Army Air Force and the U.S. Navy during World War II. A group of students from Santa Ynez High School brought a dirt track racer they built and raced. These students also race autocross at the Camarillo Airport. Abraham, below, will be driving the autocross car. The students will be hosting The 5th Annual Pirate Garage Car Show on March 17, 2018 at the Santa Ynez High School. A lot of future car enthusiasts were taking in the sights and Emery (left) and Abigail were amongst the cutest. Vic Slick was on hand and kept the music playing all day. When The Wanderer by Dion was played, these two couldn’t help but dance. This 1956 Chevrolet Nomad was Best of Show. An outstanding and rare Hupmobile was selected as Best of Show Specialty Car. This motorcycle had a fantastic and unique Biblical themed paint job: This race car was part of the exhibit of the Jim McGee and Alan Grant cars. Below are some of the cars at the show: The photo below gives an idea of just how many great cars were at the Dr. George Show. The Best of Show winners are shown above. However, this year an additional 48 exceptional cars took home a trophy. Photos of all of these 48 winners are shown below; however, there are more photos of the winners available on our SmugMug site. Click on the SmugMug icon: All the photos on SmugMug are available for purchase. The show ended about 4:00 p.m. and we’re looking forward to the 17th Annual Dr. George Show on February 9, 2019. All of the photos shown above are on our SmugMug site. Click on the SmugMug icon: All the photos on SmugMug are available for purchase.

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