Popular Cars and Coffee eventuality moves from Chanhassen to Shakopee

A dear automobile uncover that drew thousands of people to Chanhassen any month has changed 6 miles south to Canterbury Park.

Cars and Coffee, a giveaway eventuality that offers guest nominal doughnuts and coffee as they peruse 1,000 automobiles, including taboo rods, selected and outlandish sports cars, had filled Chanhassen’s AutoMotorPlex for 9 years. A flourishing throng of automobile enthusiasts surpassed 10,000 during final month’s event, that runs a initial Saturday of each month from Apr by October.

City officials complained those numbers were some-more than a venue could handle.

So promoters took their uncover down a road. Starting Jun 3, Cars and Coffee will relaunch during a Shakopee racetrack, where it will have twice a volume of space. “We’ll be means to grow into it,” pronounced eventuality co-founder Luis Fraguada, who claims it’s already a largest monthly automotive party in a United States.

Canterbury, that boasts large aspect lots, can supply 8,500 parking spaces for a repeated uncover — reason from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. — before live racing begins. The partnership helps build on a track’s prophesy to settle itself as an party end in a south metro, pronounced Jeff Maday, Canterbury Park spokesman.

“It keeps a name in a community,” Maday said. “The wish is that some of them deposit into a building to play in a label room or suffer live racing.”

A print of Cars and Coffee during a Chanhassen AutoMotorPlex final spring.