Burbank High School Community Car Show April 25

Burbank High School students are throwing open the gates of the Glenoaks Lot on Saturday, April 25, and if you haven’t made plans yet, this is worth your morning.

The Burbank High School Associated Student Body is hosting a community car show from 9 a.m. to noon at 902 N. Third St., right at the corner of Harvard Road and Glenoaks Boulevard. Admission runs $10 per person. Tickets are available at the Burbank High Student Store, through the school’s Webstore, or at the door.

Classic cars, student energy, and good coffee. Not a bad way to spend a Saturday.

The event pulls in support from the Burbank Road Kings, a local car club with deep roots in the community and a well-earned reputation for showing up when Burbank needs them. Their involvement gives the show some serious curb appeal. Car owners who want to display their own vehicle can register for $20 by scanning the QR code on the official flyer or completing an online registration form through the school.

The Associated Student Body model puts students in charge of planning and executing events like this one, which means the kids running this show aren’t just participants. They’re the organizers, the sellers, the ones staying late to set up and early to break down. That’s worth something.

On the food and drink side, Coffee Doses LA will be on site serving coffee and specialty drinks. Several Burbank High clubs and programs will sell food, including donuts and bagels. Every dollar spent goes back into student activities and programs on campus. So if you’re going to need coffee that morning anyway, you might as well get it here.

The Glenoaks Lot sits in a corner of campus that Burbank residents know well. Third Street runs straight through a stretch of the city that’s changed plenty over the past decade, but the school itself remains a fixture. Burbank High School has been on that block since 1908, and events like this one are exactly the kind of thing that keep a neighborhood school tied to the broader community rather than walled off from it.

This is the kind of event that looks small on a calendar and ends up meaning something. Families who haven’t set foot on the BHS campus since they graduated will walk the lot, look at the cars, buy a donut from a kid in a club T-shirt. That’s the whole point.

MyBurbank first reported the details of the event, including the registration and ticketing information.

Still, it’s worth putting this in context for what it actually is: a student-run fundraiser. The ASB chose the car show format, recruited a legitimate local partner in the Burbank Road Kings, and built a morning program that gives the community a reason to come out. That’s not easy to pull off. School fundraisers live or die by turnout, and turnout depends on whether people feel like the event is worth their time. A well-curated car show with a classic car culture pedigree behind it has a better shot than a bake sale in the gym.

April in Burbank is ideal for this. Mornings are cool enough to walk a parking lot without misery, and the crowd that turns out for classic car events skews multigenerational in a way that few community events manage. You’ll get the retirees who can tell you what year that Chevy rolled off the line and the eight-year-olds who just think it looks cool. That mix is rare.

Parking is the one variable nobody ever solves perfectly at these events, so plan accordingly. Glenoaks Boulevard has street parking, and the surrounding neighborhood is walkable if you park a few blocks out.

If you want to register a car, move fast. Events like this tend to fill their display spots before the weekend arrives, especially with an established club like the Burbank Road Kings already plugged in and spreading the word through their network.

The show runs April 25, 9 a.m. to noon. The school is at 902 N. Third St. Ten dollars gets you in. Show up, buy a donut, and let the students show you what they built.