06/30/2026
2026 Festa Italiana Car Show Recap:
The Festa Italiana Car Show 2026 is now in the record books. The weather was picture perfect, there were plenty of shade spots to get a break from the sun. We started parking show cars at 8am, and the showfield was almost completely full at 9:45am, 15 minutes before the official start time for our car show.
The turnout was awesome, with 72 show vehicles in attendance, which worked out perfectly because we were at maximum capacity! There was lots of great food, music, the event was covered by NBC 30 News and WTNH ABC 8 News. Lots of great people. We had a fantastic mix of show vehicles from all eras.
We had a Mopar Trivia competition, which was fun and informative. Our Mopars in Motion club President came up with some great trivia questions, and the competitors were on fire! Congratulations to the Trivia contest winner, Rob Romandetti, who was awarded a set of custom Dodge Boys Coasters.
We had a bunch of kids who competed in our always popular HotWheels Racing Competition. The winners took home special Mopars In Motion T-shirts.
There was plenty of delicious food and drinks and entertainment to be had at the Festa Italiana.
The impromptu Muffler Rap Competition was a big hit, with some really bad a$$ sounding engines!
Our 50/50 winner took home $232, Congratulations to the winner!
There were so many awesome show vehicles on hand, narrowing down the winners was tough. We handed out Top 25 Awards.
In no particular order, here are the Top 25 Award Winners:
2021 Dodge Challenger S**t pack Widebody- Nick L
1967 Ford Mustang Fastback- Robert Michaud
1966 Dodge Coronet Hemi- Steve C
1951 Pontiac Chieftain- Kathy W
1955 DeSoto Fireflite Coronado Hemi- Darrell Theriault
1956 Chevy Bel Air - Dennis Floyd
2022 Dodge Durango- David Perbeck
2012 Maserati Quatteoporte- Jeff Palazzo
2003 Dodge Viper SRT-10 - Greg Gebert
1956 Chevy BelAir- Pete V
1989 Toyota MR-2 - H. Miranda
2015 Dodge Challenger - Kevin Blow
1949 Ford Crestline Convertible - Billy Driscoll
1957 Dodge Coronet Lancer- Tony Garcia
1966 Pontiac GTO Convertible - Gary Albert
2008 Dodge Challenger - Italo Fusco
1967 Chevy Chevelle - Warren Smith
1972 Plymouth Road Runner GTX- Steven Suschana
1960 Metropolitan 15000- Bruce & Jan Loomis
1970 Plymouth Cuda- Tony Fusco
1998 Pontiac Trans Am WS6- Al Sastri
2018 Dodge Demon- Dan Pellegrini
2002 Chrysler Prowler - Paul Bartlett
2008 Ford Roush Stage 3 Mustang- Don Provost
2022 Dodge Challenger Hellcat- Brian & Char Pennington
Congratulations to all the show winners!
Thank you to all that chose to spend the day with us, we appreciate it, we hope you had as much fun as we did, and we look forward to seeing you at our next event!
