Arizona’s ‘Future Classic Car Show’ Returns Jan. 13

Scottsdale hosts popular auto event featuring collector vehicles from ’75 to present day.

On January 13, the Future Classic Car Show will celebrate its fourth anniversary, hosting 65 significant vehicles viewed as future collectibles during Arizona Auction Week. The free event will take place at Scottsdale Quarter and is free to attend with tickets reserved here.

The Future Classic Car Show will feature everything from vintage Ford trucks and late-model Mustangs and other American muscle cars to German performance sedans and Japanese sports cars.

Participants will compete for seven trophies in categories that include: Best of Show, Best of 1975-1985, Best of 1986-1995, Best of 1996-2005, Best of 2006-2019, Student’s Choice Award, and Fan Favorite Award. For the Fan Favorite Award, spectators will have the opportunity to cast a ballot, crowning one vehicle as the winner.

“Each year the crowds get bigger and the cars better,” said Roger Flacione, CEO of Classic Cars, the event’s title sponsor. “This year we are expecting some of the most unique, most exotic and most valuable future collectibles to attend.”

‘This year we are expecting some of the most unique, most exotic and most valuable future collectibles to attend.’

Along with the 65 cars being judged, hundreds more will be on site as display vehicles, lining several levels of the host parking structure. The event will open to spectators at 1 p.m. and awards will be presented at 4:30 p.m. before the projected finish time of 5 p.m.

The ensuing week, dubbed “Arizona Auction Week,” will play host to several major auctions selling thousands of blue-chip cars. The events draws some of the best cars and biggest collectors in the world for the week, all starting with the Future Classic Car Show. 

Future Classic Car Show is an annual gathering of automotive enthusiasts in Scottsdale, Arizona, kicking off the area’s Car Week celebrations in style. Late model cars built between 1975 and the present-day line a rooftop in Scottsdale Quarter in a display of cars which will come to define the “Classic” car scene in the coming decades.