The the Orange County Fair Grounds, adjacent to Orange County Community College (OCC) are known among resident SoCal’ers as the home of the Orange County Fair. Yet, every year over the Labor Day weekend, the OCCA Labor Day Cruise rolls into town and plays host to upwards of 10,000 cars! This year’s recent three-day weekend seemed a wee bit light on the car-side of the roster, but people enjoying the gorgeously mild Southern California weather came in droves.

This year’s Labor Day Cruise featured a cordoned-off autocross section for hot rodders and muscle car enthusiasts to push their machines around the cones as best as they could. Springing up into the public’s consciousness only recently, autocross courses are a new way for old school machines to show off their prowess (or miserable lack thereof) around the bends.

Of course, it wouldn’t be the Orange Country Fairgrounds without the proclivity of fried oddities including Oreos, Snickers, funnel cakes, corn dogs, and dang-near anything else you can cram a stick into, dip in batter and boil in oil. Games for kids and activities for the family made this an event not just for dad or the sole car lover in the family clan too.

And, lest we forget, there were plenty of lawn chairs, stuffed animals, gaudy placards, cheap plastic hamburgers and strawberry shakes on drive-in diner trays, and those creepy faceless inanimate toddlers leaning head-first into grilles that inevitably wind up at car shows. (Seriously, folks. Those things are freakish.)

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