Octane Auto Show to show cars with celebrities along for the ride

MADISON – Car enthusiasts of all ages have the yearly consumption of fondness, wishes and pure excitement awaiting them just days away as on Saturday, Aug. 15, the sixth annual Rocket City Octane Auto Show in the South Hall of the Von Braun Center, presented by AutoworkZ, which will feature the return engagement of Von Hotrod, a well-known West Coast pin-striper, who carries an old-school vibe, and two of the most famous actresses from the 1973 motion picture American Graffiti, Mackenzie Phillips and Candy Clark. The one-day event is known as one of the most exciting auto shows in the Southeast with people as far away as Kentucky and the Carolinas attending.

“The World of Wheels used to show at the VBC, but that went away and there was a void for a major car show in Huntsville,” said Joe Scott, who for 30 years has worked as a chemist for NASA at the Marshall Space Flight Center including the life support system for the International Space Station and is the Auto Show promoter. “I, along with Terry Maples, Tim Johnson and Bryan Miller, all car enthusiasts, put the original High Octane Car Show together in 2021, and in our third year moving the show from October to August, we began to blow it through the roof.”

This year’s event will feature the Rocket City Hot Wheelers Club which will set up Hot Wheels Tracks throughout the lobby of the VBC’s South Hall. The Octane Auto Show will also feature the “Mayberry” characters, a special appearance by the original full car mechanic for the Dukes of Hazzard TV program, the famed Bat Mobile from Batman and cars from Smokey and the Bandit film franchise.