(Above) Down in Kissimmee at Old Town they host car shows weekly. They have free parking convenient for its attendants and a lot of shops that people can look to explore. Old Town offers multiple different tourist attractions such as Funspot America, t-shirt shops with Republican slogans, haunted houses, burger joints, and a variety of other food places. For a town being a recreation of an old Floridian town they have had quite the deal for parents and young ones to have fun. After nearly 35 years, Old Town has hosted many other car shows at the park while also hosting other events.
Events such as Friday Night Muscle Car Show & Cruise, Saturday Night Classic Car Show & Cruise and other events like karaoke, Halloween, New Years Eve, and the 4th of July.
Orlando as a community has ties to everything from soccer, and arts, to good food, but is not known for cars. Orlando has a unique array of events taking place in Winter Park and Old Town in Kissimmee. These events happen ever so often, but when they do it kicks off with a bang. The Winter Park Cars and Coffee used to take place in Winter Park outside Winter Park’s Donut Central – Eats & Coffee, but as of recently they have moved towards the Sanford area and Deezerland area. With these shows people are bound to see multiple types of crowd favorites or even niche favorites. Lots of Porsche 911’s, Lamborghini Hurricane’s, Aventa-dor’s, and numerous amounts of BMW M5’s being shown off. The other great crowd favorite is the car show down in Kissimmee that takes place at the Old Town attraction. They have numerous amounts of car shows almost every month and smaller ones weekly on Wednesdays. Old Town Kissimmee has a muscle car show almost every Friday and an exotic/ import car show towards the end of the month all year round. Make sure to also check events out during holidays as they offer many attractions.
(Above) At the Winter Park Cars and Coffee a man with his Ferrari represents the older to the newer and modern cars. The hottest commodity of the show was the move from Mclaren’s and Porsche 911’s along with other foreign cars. Winter Park Cars and Coffee starts from 8:00 A.M. to 11:00 A.M. and from that time numerous amounts of cars show up. People gather around look at the unique designs of the cars. Other people, while they wait, can grab donuts or coffee at the local donut shop Donut Central and Fuelpresso. They offer everything from donuts and coffee, to savory snacks, and various juices. The show has specific lots to enter the cars into. One section is dedicated to older, more Asian cars while another section has more unique, newer and more European cars within the community. (Zane Rimes)(Above) Winter Park Cars and Coffee had a numerous amount of interesting spectacles from new car models and old classic car models. The crowd favorites like Porsche 911s and other various Lamborghinis were also shown. The biggest spectacle was a camo wrapped Ford GT, people were practically swarming the car like mosquitoes on a hot summer day. The owner of the car was also a very nice man who described his experiences owning the car. (Zane Rimes)(Above) One of the most interesting and unique Porsche designs, Porsche GT3RS, was specifically involved with Gravity Rally which is a rally type race specifically meant for cancer awareness and funding for cancer research for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Gravity Rally has numerous races that extend all over the state of Florida and the country, with ones set to take place from Orlando to Miami with others going from Nashville, Tennessee to Atlanta, Georgia. (Zane Rimes)
ZaneRimes is currently attending Lake Highland Preparatory School as a 12th grader. He is involved with Boy Scouts and recently achieved the Eagle Scout rank. Zane is a very big advocate for cancer research since he is a pediatric cancer survivor. He continues to serve advocacy for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and as of recently, he was offered an internship with their legal department. Currently, he loves hanging out with friends and building Legos and various other buildable miniatures, along with scuba diving, hiking, and watching football. He is very passionate about writing and enjoys being with the newspaper staff. Zane enjoys writing, watching movies, collecting vinyls, and figuring out what to bring with him to college as he will be attending The University of Arkansas in the fall. Go Hogs!
Hayden Roberts is a sports writer for Lake Highland Preparatory School’s Upper School newspaper Twice-Told Tale. Hayden has been writing for the newspaper since January 2023. Roberts loves to cover and write about all different sports and hopes one day to study sports journalism. When not writing, Roberts enjoys playing volleyball.
