Vintage Auto Fest returns to Glen Ellyn
Old-fashioned cars and their owners from DuPage County and beyond will showcase their vehicles next month at the Glen Ellyn Historical Society's fourth annual Vintage Auto Fest.
The featured auto at the fest is the Kennedy Packard, the official car of Joseph Patrick Kennedy, United States ambassador to Great Britain from 1937 to 1940. Kennedy was the original owner of the vehicle, now owned by Russ Rodriguez, regional director of the Greater Illinois Region Classic Car Club of America.
He acquired the car in the 1990s and restored it to its present condition.
The Vintage Auto Fest is 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 3, at Stacy's Historic Corners, 800 N. Main St., Glen Ellyn. Admission is free, and free talks on automobile history are given at the Glen Ellyn History Center throughout the day.
Mini-tours of Stacy's Tavern Museum are available for free, and the Glen Ellyn Historical Society's annual bake sale offers homemade pies, cakes, cookies and other pastries.
The annual sidewalk sale is at Stacy's Corners Store, and activities for children let them create color drawings of vintage vehicles to take home as a memory.
For information on the auto show and the day's other activities, call (630) 469-1867 or visit gehs.org.
If you go
What: Vintage Auto Fest
When: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 3
Where: Stacy's Historic Corners, 800 N. Main St., Glen Ellyn
Cost: Free
Info: (630) 469-1867 or gehs.org