Activities throughout the weekend of

September 15 - 17, 2023

 culminating with the

Concours d'Elegance on Sunday

See our event page for more details
Cars & Coffee at Cobble Beach presented by Michelin

The Concours d'Lemons will take place Saturday, September 14, 2024 from 10:00 am to 2:30 pm.


The tongue-in-cheek Concours celebrating the oddball, mundane and truly interesting of the automotive world. The Concours d'Lemons show honours aesthetic and technological underachievement and the wacky folks who love it. We invite you to come to the River District, downtown Owen Sound on Saturday to view these wacky, weird and wild automobiles! The downtown will be ripe with only the best lemons.


Cars that have been accepted for the Sunday Concours are not eligible to enter the Concours d'Lemons on Saturday. Entries will be reviewed by a Vehicle Selection Committee in order of registration date. Entries received after the classes have been filled will be placed on a waiting list in order of registration date. 


Every entrant must go through a 2 step registration process. Showing a car will cost each entrant $20 minimum per vehicle. Additional passengers are $5.00/each. All monies received go directly to the Owen Sound Regional Hospital Foundation.  This event is open to the first 50 registered vehicles. 


Concours d'Lemons is open to the public from 10:00 am to 2:30 pm.

Gates open to 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, 2024.


Please note: 

  • All vehicles must stay in place until 2:30 pm. 
  • Once the vehicles are parked they will not be allowed to move position until 2:30 pm. 
  • Concours d'Lemons reserves the right to refuse entrance to the show.
  • Concours d'Lemons is a pet free event. 
  • Registration fees are non-refundable & not eligible for a charitable tax receipt.
  • Fees must be paid at time of registration.
  • Vehicles that are accepted into the Concours d'Elegance on Sunday cannot participate in Concours d'Lemons on Saturday.


Registration is now OPEN

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 of Origin

  • 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


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
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