The 16th Annual Renaissance Euro Fest details here

The 16th Annual Renaissance Euro Fest Classic European Automobile & Motorcycle Show is set for Oct. 13 and 14 at the Renaissance on Highland Colony Parkway in Ridgeland.

Euro Fest is an all-European automobile and motorcycle show. Over the past 15 years, Euro Fest has attracted over 200,000 attendees who have come to view over 1,600 vehicular entries from 12 Southeastern states.

"It is a unique auto and motorcycle show that we do every year, and it has grown to be very successful in the Southeastern part of the United States." said Mike Marsh, founder and director of Euro-Fest.

Visitors will get a chance to see different distinctive vehicles and motorcycles that they will probably never see again in their lifetime, Marsh said. Anyone who attends can walk up to the owners of the vehicles and have a special experience of learning about a rare automobile.

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Some of the highlights for this year include the featured highlight of the 2023 Renaissance Euro Fest: BMW and over 125 BMW vehicles will be shown and judged. Seventy-five vehicles under 25 years old will be displayed in the Renaissance east lawn by sectioned corrals.

Euro Fest will also be joined this year by students from the Madison Career and Technical Center who will display their Volkswagen Baja Bug. Students from four local high schools built the Baja Bug over a 2-and-a-half-year period in a job-training program.

"Madison Career and Technical Center has a very successful program out there for students to learn automotive trades of all types," Marsh said. "The students will be there and instructors (will) explain to people what they have done to the Volkswagen and telling the public about their school. There will also be featured a very special motorcycle that was used in World War II by British air troopers that they dropped from airplanes and parachuted into combat zones. It's very rare and is going to be a crowd favorite."

Each vehicle and motorcycle will have an information card that will explain three outstanding characteristics of the car, and each vehicle and motorcycle will be judged.

IF YOU GO:

• When: Friday, Oct. 13 and Saturday, Oct. 14

• Where: Renaissance at Colony Park 1000 Highland Colony Pkwy, Ridgeland

• Admission: Free. Food will be available for purchase.

• Time: Friday at 3 p.m. with a parade from Renaissance at Colony Park to the Town of Livingston and back. Following the parade is a "Packet Pick Up Party" and reception for participants, media and sponsors at Lee Michael’s from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Saturday at 10 a.m. the main event opens to the public.

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This article originally appeared on Mississippi Clarion Ledger: Euro-Fest in Ridgeland MS auto show at Renaissance