During this year’s Super Cruise-In, the South Georgia Classic Car Club had so many vintage vehicles arrive, organizers had to turn cars away.

“We had about 185 cars and had to turn away 20,” said Logan Birdsong, the club’s spokesman. “We couldn’t fit any more cars onto the lot. It was the largest single car show Valdosta has ever seen.”

South Georgia Classic Car Club follows the Super Cruise-In with next weekend’s Fall Classic Car & Truck Show. Birdsong hopes to have at least 100 vehicles in this show, though he stresses that participants should pre-register to ensure having a spot in the show.

The truck part of the title is important, Birdsong says. Trucks are becoming an important part of vintage vehicle shows. So are motorcycles. He notes that the Cruise-In featured 20 classic motorcycles.  While the club maintains the love of classic cars, it has steered toward showcasing imports and tuners to attract younger members, participants and visitors.

“A lot of the guys of my generation who see ’59 Chevys … as the classic cars are getting older,” Birdsong says.

In the next 20 to 30 years, classics such as the ’59 Chevy will possibly be viewed as the Model T is now — appreciated but not adored as it has been by the owners who grew up wanting a ’59 Chevy. Car shows will be dominated by new generations of owners who idolize new generations of vintage vehicles.

As a show poster notes, classic cars now include vehicles manufactured as late as 1983.

The Fall Classic Car & Truck Show promises to feature classic cars from ’83 and older, street rods, trucks, Corvettes, imports and tuners, motorcycles, special-interest vehicles, rat rods, antiques. Awards will be given to vehicles with the best paint, best interior, best engine.

The South Georgia Classic Car Club Fall Classic Car & Truck Show is scheduled 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 23, parking lot of the Valdosta mall. Registration fees to show a vehicle. Viewing is free and open to the public.