Concours d'Lemons Registration
The tongue-in-cheek Concours d'Lemons celebrates the oddball, mundane, and truly interesting aspects of the automotive world. This show honors aesthetic and technological underachievement, along with the wacky folks who love it. We invite you to join us in the River District, downtown Owen Sound, on Saturday to view these bizarre, weird, and wild automobiles! The downtown will be filled with only the best "lemons."
Entries will be reviewed by a Vehicle Selection Committee in order of registration date, and those received after the classes are full will be placed on a waiting list based on registration date.
Registration:
Every entrant must complete a two-step registration process. The cost for displaying a vehicle is a minimum donation of $20 per vehicle, with additional passengers at $5 each. All proceeds go directly to the Brightshores Health System Owen Sound Foundation. This event is open to the first 50 registered vehicles.
Timing:
Concours d'Lemons is open to the public from 10:00 AM to 2:30 PM. Gates open for participating vehicles at 9:00 AM, and all vehicles must be pre-registered. Registered vehicles must load in between 9:00 AM and 10:00 AM; non-registered vehicles will not be accepted at the gate. All vehicles must be registered by August 31.
Please note:
- All vehicles must remain in place until 2:30 PM and cannot be moved.
- Concours d'Lemons reserves the right to refuse entrance to the show.
- Registration fees are non-refundable and not eligible for a charitable tax receipt.
- Fees must be paid at the time of registration.
- Vehicles accepted into the Concours d'Elegance on Sunday cannot participate in the Concours d'Lemons on Saturday.
Concours d'Lemons Judging Information
Guaranteed to be unprofessional, inattentive, capricious and subject to bribery (liquor and food seems to be favourites). Satisfactory bribes will earn the "Ribbon of Dishonor" to be placed on the car's windshield. Don't like their decisions? Check your ticket - you're at the wrong car show.
Concours d'Lemons Classes by Region:
- Rust Belt American Junk - Ford
- Rust Belt American Junk - GM
- Rust Belt American Junk - Mopar
- Rust Belt American Junk - Other
- Unmitigated Gaul Award: The French Legion of Honour
- Rueful Britannia Award: The Royal Order of MOT Failure
- Needlessly Complex Italian Award: Conoscete un Buon Meccanico? Plaque
- Der Self-SatisfiedKrauttenwagen
- Soul-Sucking Japanese Appliance
- Swedish Meatballs
- Kommunist Kars Award: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Medal for Most Glorious Achievement in Transportative Advancement for Use Upon Billiard-Smooth Highways as Are Uniformly to be Found Inside Worker's Paradise
- Wonders of the Korean Peninsula
Concours d'Lemons Special Awards:
- The Griot's Garage "Your Car Really Needs Our Products" Prize
- Best Back Seat
- Slightly Better Than a Go-Kart
- Sight for Sour Eyes
- Driving on a Prayer
- Participation
- Chronic Dick-Teague Syndrome (for AMC, 1964 - 1983)
- Sickest Sickle (for Oddball motorcycles, Norton Rotaries, CBX's, Ariel Square Fours, Zuki RE5s, Monkey Bikes, Mini Bikes etc)
- Worst in Show
- Biggest Loser (for Car with largest percentage value drop, i.e. MB S600, etc)
- Most Dangerous
- WTF??? Award