08/02/2025
That’s an amazing turn out!
WE HAVE A NUMBER.
*DRUMROLL*
818.
Based on our counts, we had 818 cars at the 2025 Kenosha Homecoming Car Show!
And we sold 273 vendor spaces.
An explanation of our methods can be found below!
Let's aim for 1000 in 2028!
Thank you to everyone who attended, everyone who was a vendor, all of our partners including Anastos Motors! Alfano Performance AMC Speed Shop! Don's Auto Parts & Machine Shop! Danish Brotherhood Lodge #14 - Kenosha, WI! The Brat Stop! Lake Andrea Beer Garden ! Great Lakes Dragaway! A+ Mobility! WRJN! 95 WIIL ROCK! Scouts BSA Troop 1865 Kenosha! Kenosha County Sheriff's Office! Kenosha County Government! City of Kenosha, Wisconsin Government! And I'm sure I'm missing some, apologies and please tag yourself so we can add it. Thanks to Visit Kenosha for the amazing support and for the photography!
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Tracking attendance at events seems like it should be easy but when you start trying it all falls apart. No single data point tells a full picture. Ticket sales don’t count attendance, scanning tickets don’t count those who got in by other means, a headcount is just a snapshot. This is why the NFL just does ticket sales, for instance. But we want the most accurate estimate we can get. So we looked at all of the data we could pull together.
We counted our registrations, some have multiple cars, some were just for one. And not all attended. There were cars that snuck on. Honestly, we snuck some in ourselves. Wink, wink. That’s between us, don’t tell the boss. We always open the gates towards the end of the show. And there were many cars on the vendor side of the field that weren’t registered as show cars.
We also looked at aerial photography. And, let me tell you, drones have effectively ended any chance of inflating your attendance figures. We wanted to say there were 1500 cars and we had to start stacking cars on top of each other. The last two shows especially have opened our eyes about prior car counts, and maybe prior counts weren’t the most accurate. We found two really good sets of drone videos. One was shot early in the day, and it got started a little slow this year due to a risk of rain. And another was late, after it was already breaking up. But, combined, we can see how dense rows were, and how long rows were, and where else cars spilled over to. Cars were parking up over the fence line on the north side of the field, it was packed. So we count one row in the earlier shot, note where rows ended up in the late shot and fill them in, then multiply by number of rows. Plus, cars on the vendor side. And we try to account for a lot of cars, and large groups of cars, coming and going through the day.
We are pretty sure we had 818 cars at the Saturday show. And we sold 273 vendor spaces.
