Steve Heil Car Show returns to Festival Days

Editor’s note: Due to an editor’s error, information about this show was misreported in a story on Page 11 of the Festival Days special section in Wednesday’s edition of the Havre Daily News.

The Steve Heil Memorial Car Show is returning to Havre Festival Days for the fourth time Friday, starting at 6 p.m.

The show, which has been held in the parking lot of Independence Bank, will be on the blocked-off streets south and west of bank lot this year due to construction at the bank, co-organizer Ryan Albertson said.

Though it’s called a car show, it is open to all motorized conveyances from classic cars to muscle cars and rat rods, and from motorcycles to boats, he said and it is free to entries and to viewers. The show is not a money-maker for the late car enthusiast’s family, he added. It’s just about the cars and the camaraderie.

Entries have grown from 50 the first year to 100 entries last year, Albertson said.

Anyone who wants to show off their vehicle can register it starting at 5 p.m., but vehicles do not have to be registered to be displayed, Albertson said. Registering helps them track the participants, know who was there, but they have always allowed participants to come and go.

Two awards will be given out, Albertson said. One will be a people’s choice award, the other will be decided on by Heil’s family in special honor of his memory.