The 4th annual Historic Downtown Campbell Car Show was held on June 6, 2026. Our fourth running of this highly regarded car show again featured over 300 dazzling cars across a well diversified spread of types covering everything from unmodified originals, vintage trucks, and artfully restored classics to mind blowing custom cars.
This year, there were seven prize categories with a custom fabricated trophy awarded to the best car in each category.
Congratulations to our 2026 winners listed below.
- Best Import - Julio Grapa - 1963 VW Karmann Ghia
- Best Street Machine - Shane Marbury - 1966 Ford Mustang
- Best Muscle Car - Tom Hasenberg - 1970 Ford Mustang Boss 302
- Best Truck - Ricky Rosas - 1958 GMC Truck
- Best Hot Rod - Dave Stohlman - 1932 Ford Roadster
- Staff Pick Award - Angel Palacios - 1957 Chevy 3100 Truck
- Best in Show - Michael Vanni - 1964 Chevy Nova
About our Best in Show Winner
If you're feeling underwhelmed when you found out which car won our Best in Show Award for 2026, look closer. The 1964 Chevy Nova restored by its owner, Michael Vanni is an impressive display of persistence and craftsmanship, specifically handmade craftsmanship. The build of his award winning 64 Nova was reserved and simple by design and took him 10 years to complete with many of the modifications needed to restore it being built with only hand tools (not even a lathe).
Scroll down to view photos of the winners. Click on the photos to learn more about each car in the image captions.
Acknowledgments
Thank you to everyone who helped make our 4th show a successful endeavor by sharing your unique and history-laden vehicles with our community. Apologies to everyone we had to turn away. The reality of relying on such a small team and staging a show in a downtown that only spans 4 blocks is having to know your limits and making the most of what you have.
The smallness of the team is one of the things that makes the Historic Downtown Campbell Car Show so remarkable. A show of this stature is a mammoth task and for it to be produced by such a small number of volunteer organizers is incredible in the literal sense of the word.
These were the tireless people who were largely responsible for the 2026 show happening:
- Mike Van Sant (The Olive Bar)
- Amy Taylor (Cloud City Supply)
- Carol Pouya (Retired Downtown Campbell Business Owner)
- Sheldon Chang (Social Wave)
We also had somewhere around 100 volunteers who helped with a variety of important tasks from running our check-in process to operating popcorn machines. It takes a village to do something like this and we thank everyone who took time to be a part of this day.
If you'd like to volunteer for future car shows in Downtown Campbell or other events, be sure to fill out our Volunteer Registration form.
Next Year's Show
We don't have a date or details for the 2027 show yet, but if you intend to enter your car to be in our 5th annual show, subscribe to the Downtown Campbell general mailing list, or send an email to [email protected] and ask to be put on our notification email list so you'll be among the first to know about our 2027 registration and show dates.
Thank you to Michael Vanni, Dave Stohlman, Angel Palacios, and Shane Marbury for use of their photos.
