Vintage Car Parade August 30th

For the past thirty years, each Labor Day Weekend Lime Rock Park in Lime Rock Connecticut brings in hundreds of the best examples of all the storied marques… Ferrari, Bentley, Aston Martin, Mercedes-Benz, Maserati, Jaguar, Bugatti, MG, BMW and dozens more…not to mention the “best of   breed” in American iron, as manifested by Ford, Chevrolet and others.  

Lime Rock’s Historic Festival stands alone as the East Coast’s premier vintage motorsport event. This festival is one of the few in the country where cars race on the same track as they did in their heyday.  This year, Lime Rock will greet Sir Stirling Moss as their honored guest. Sir Moss raced from 1948 to 1962, won 212 of the 529 races he entered including 16 Formula One Grand Prix’s.  In 2000, Prince Charles knighted him for his achievements in British Motor Racing. He is considered a genius in the motorsports community and his visit to Lime Rock Park in Litchfield Hills is a once in a lifetime event.  

The historic weekend kicks off with a Vintage Racecar Parade that takes place on August 30 beginning at 3:30 p.m.  At this time over sixty vintage racecars from the Historic Festival weekend at Lime Rock Park will parade 15 miles through Lime Rock, Lakeville and Salisbury to Falls Village.   The parade route winds from Lime Rock Park along Rte. 44 to downtown Lakeville and Salisbury where the street are lined with spectators. 

The parade continues on through Noble Horizons and then proceeds to Falls Village where the cars line up to be admired at a festive community street fair.   This annual event is free and open to the public. 

In honor of this festival, traffic in downtown Falls Village comes to a standstill for this two-hour kick off to the Labor Day weekend celebration.  A highly anticipated highlight of this event is the opportunity to win a chance to waive the green flag at a vintage race at Lime Rock as well as to see these rare historic cars up close and personal, one after another as they line the street.