31st Annual Run to the Sun - 2008
Lake Havasu City, AZ


Statistics 

Below is some information we collected about the 31st Annual Run to the Sun.

Our Run was open to 1972 and older cars and trucks and there were 815 entries. There were 32 different makes of vehicles and entrants came from the following 17 states; Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming. This year we also had one entry from England (they didn't bring their car) and three entries from British Columbia, Canada.


As mentioned above, this year's Run had 32 different makes of vehicles entered and that included a few we haven't seen at our show in the past few years. As in years past, Ford was the most popular make with 380 cars and trucks registered. Chevrolet was the second most popular make with 282 registered. The oldest vehicle in the show was a 1908 Sears Model J.  The complete list is:

Amphicar (1)
Anglia (1)
Austin Healy (1)
Autocar (1)
Buick (17)
Cadillac (12)
Chevrolet (282)
Chrysler (8)
Diamond T (1)
Dodge (10)
Ford (380)

Hudson (3)
International (1)
Jaguar (2)
LaSalle (1)
Lincoln (1)
Mercedes (4)
Mercury (16)
Monarch (1)
Nash (3)
Oakland (1)
Oldsmobile (6)

Packard (2)
Plymouth (14)
Pontiac (11)
Rambler (1)
Sears (1)
Shelby (3)
Studebaker (11)
Thames (1)
Volkswagen (4)
Willys (13)

1932 Fords were the best represented year and make again this year. Body styles entered in our show included 3 Window Coupes, 5 Window Coupes, Pick-ups, Roadsters, Roadster Pick-ups, 2 Door Sedans, 4 Door Sedans and Victorias. Below are the six most popular vehicles by year and make.

66 - 1932 Fords
37 - 1955 Chevrolets
30 - 1934 Fords
29 - 1956 Chevrolets
29 - 1940 Fords
26 - 1957 Chevrolets

Last year, almost 22% of the entries were for vehicles manufactured between 1960 and 1972. The same held true for this year with 177 of the 814 vehicles manufactured after 1959.

With the economy down, and the price of gas higher this year, we felt this was a successful year with the turnout we had and we thank everyone who participated.



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