17 YEARS OF FUN and counting....

We began in 1991 with just a picnic, and 33 Corvettes from Northwestern Arkansas, Springfield, Missouri and Kansas City.  Each year the weekend has grown and we have added new events several times.  With well over 1,000 Corvettes in attendance, Eureka Springs Corvette Weekend is now one of the three largest non-commercial annual Corvette events in the United States.

One of the things that makes ESCW unique is that it is organized entirely by volunteers and is a not-for-profit non-commercial event. Participating Corvette clubs organize and completely staff individual events. The chairpersons from those events are shown on the Contacts page.  Click here for 2008 Agenda.  Click here for registration form

Photos and Event Winners Lists
  2007 2006 2005 2004 2003
2002 2001 2000 1999 1998
Luigi's Restaurant, one of the original sponsors of ESCW

 

 

1991  The first year, we showed the Corvettes in one small parking lot downtown Eureka Springs, across the street from Luigi's restaurant.   The road tour included a trip across the one-lane wooden suspension bridge that spans the White River at Beaver, Arkansas - a tradition that has continued ever since.

 
Betty Skinner, Ben Whitacre, Brewster Jones, Larry Teekis at the first Awards Ceremony The entire Car Show in one parking lot The Best Western where we all stayed the first year. The Road Tour
1993  By the third year, we'd expanded to three rather crowded lots, still downtown. 
1993 Straight-Axles 1993 Sharks  1993 Mid-years and a few C4s
1994 - Rain, Rain and more Rain

1994  The only year it's  rained all day - the city let us use every available parking space along all the streets of downtown.  This turned out to be too spread out and the other shoppers were not exactly thrilled with the Corvette Parking Only situation.

By 1995, it was clear there was no longer enough room anywhere downtown so we moved the car show to Pine Mountain Village, where there is room for about 600 cars.   But the Vettes kept coming and, as shown in the 1999 photo at the right, even that filled beyond capacity.

700 Vettes where there's room for 600! And you can't even see the C1, C2 and C5 parking in this photo. In 2000, we moved to The Great Passion Play grounds where we could fit over 1,000 cars.

Beginning in 2002, we moved back to the paved parking and more "in the middle of everything" location at Pine Mountain Square.

Through 2007, Pine Mountain remains the site for the car show and the center of many other activities for the weekend.

Dates for 2009 - October 1-4.  Mark your calendars now and make your reservations before you leave in 2008. Bike, Blues and BBQ will not coincide with ESCW for 2008-2010

 

 
Year Cars Registered
1991 33
1992 68
1993 139
1994 168
1995 247
1996 302
1997 405
1998 562
1999 707
2000 814
2001 764
2002 678
2003 666
2004 678
2005 695
2006 779
2007 687