On Sunday, July 13th, we attended the 32nd Annual Mopar Madness show in Langley, British Columbia, Canada. Usually held on the second weekend of July every year and put on by the Vancouver chapter of the Mopars Unlimited Car club, it’s proudly known as one of, if not, the biggest Mopar show in Western Canada.
As far as car shows go, this is a must attend event for us. We haven’t missed a show since 2005. The show has always attracted a very strong showing of classic Mopars and since around 2005, it has also attracted a very high number of modern Mopars as well.
The show organizers usually get treated to good weather on the day of the show with the weather usually being sunny and hot. While the weather wasn’t the greatest a few years back, it’s been consistently good the past few years and this year was no exception.
When we first started attending this show back in 2005, there were rows upon rows of A-Bodies, B-Bodies and E-Bodies. While the A-Body and B-Body numbers typically stayed strong, we started to notice a slow decline in E-Body numbers starting around 2012. In 2017, the show had it’s worst turnout for E-bodies, which was very surprising. The following year in 2018, numbers started to rise quite a bit and the past few years they’ve skyrocketed back to normal numbers with a strong showing of everything classic again.
Modern Mopars have always had a very strong showing at the show as well with usually over 40 modern Chargers, Challengers, 300s and Magnums showing up. However, last year after some judging class changes, we noticed the modern Mopar numbers dropped a fair bit, especially on the Charger, 300 and Magnum side of things. While the attendance for modern Challengers was decent this year (not as many as normal though), only 3 or 4 modern Chargers and a single Magnum showed up. It’s definitely interesting to see how class numbers change through-out the years.
That being said, a lot of the classes were absolutely packed this year with a ton of high quality Mopars, which we were very happy to see as it keeps the strong momentum of this show going; even after 32 years!
This year we decided to bring our 1969 Dart GTS, 1970 Challenger R/T and 2008 Challenger SRT8 to the show and had a great time as always!
If you live anywhere in Western Canada or the Pacific Northwest of the United States, you have to come to this show at least once. It’s a show we at Mopar Connection Magazine have marked on our calendars year after year and one we will never miss. We’d like to extend a huge thank you to everyone at Mopars Unlimited for putting on another fantastic show. We already can’t wait for next year’s event.
