1:00 pm until 7:00 pm - LCS Registration

Please see the sign in the Marriott’s lobby for directions to the LCS registration room.
If you need to register on-site, please do so here.
If you have preregistered, you may pick up your registration packet here.

1:00 pm until 7:00 pm - Self Guided Cruises

Maps for various cruises that one may take on their own or with other Cobras will be available in the registration room.

2:00 pm until 6:00 pm - FORMACARS Open House

Join your Cobra friends and attend the Open House of FORMACARS, a local firm known as a leading builder of iconic turn-key replicas and replica components.

4:30 pm until 8:00 pm - Der Dutchman Cruise-In

Join your Cobra friends for fun, door prizes, viewing of local hot rods and cars while listening to oldies music at the Der Dutchman Restaurant and Bakery Cruise-In. There will be food, such as hot sandwiches and homemade ice cream, available for purchase, or you may go inside the restaurant and order from the menu.

The cruise-in will be in the field, south of the Der Dutchman Restaurant, located at the southeast corner of West Avenue and State Route 42 in Plain City, OH. Please allow approximately 20 minutes for travel time.

If you prefer to travel as part of the guided group, please line up in front of the main hotel entrance for a 4:30 pm departure.

8:00 pm until Bedtime

Enjoy spending time after the cruise-in with your Cobra friends in the Marriott’s parking lot.

7:00 am until 9:00 am - LCS Registration

Please see the sign in the Marriott’s lobby for directions to the LCS registration room.
If you need to register on-site, please do so here.
If you have preregistered, you may pick up your registration packet here.

8:00 am - Begin Guided Cruises

Select from the following cruises that will have staggered starts every 15 minutes:

• Dan Semko Memorial Hocking Hills Cruise.
• Frank Forestiere Memorial Amish Country Cruise.
• Flyin' Freddie Memorial National Museum of The United States Air Force Cruise.
• Wade Chamberlain Memorial Electric Karting.
• Nick Zeyen Vintage Racing at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Memorial Cruise.

Please see the EVENTS tab for a description of each these cruises.

3:00 pm until 5:00 pm - LCS Registration
8:00 pm until 9:00 pm

Please see the sign in the Marriott's lobby for directions to the LCS registration room.
If you need to register on-site, please do so here.
If you have preregistered, you may pick up your registration packet here.

End of Cruises into the Evening

Leisure Time - Relax while visiting with your extended Cobra family in the hotel’s parking lot.

4:00 pm until 8:00 pm – Food Trucks and Parking Lot Party

Schmidt's Sausage food truck will offer a variety of German sausages, as well as their traditional sides, including jumbo vanilla cream puffs. Schmidt's has recently been awarded "Best Columbus Food Truck" by the Columbus Dispatch Newspaper.

Taquitos Truck will provide you with a great taste of Mexico by way of their authentic street taquitos, quesadillas, burritos, nachos, and queso and chips, as well as their delicious churros that are filled with cajeta (caramel).

Graeter’s Ice Cream will have their dense and creamy ice cream for you to enjoy as a great summertime evening desert. Graeter’s uses two and one-half gallon French Pot freezers, were the finest ingredients and high butterfat cream is frozen with very little trapped air, yielding an irresistible and indulgent ice cream.

Driving Guitars Band will be performing their unique instrumental guitar, bass and drums music. The band will feature a wide variety of rock & roll and surfer tunes.

8:00 pm until Bedtime

After dinner, enjoy spending time in the parking lot with your Cobra friends.

8:00 am until 8:45 am - LCS Late Registration

You may register onsite in the parking lot of the Madison County Engineer's Office (825 US-42, London, OH 43140), located approximately 15 miles west of the hotels, just southwest of the intersection of I-70 West (Exit 79) and U.S. Route 42 northeast of London, OH.

8:00 am until 9:00 am – Parade Line Up

Line up your Cobra in the parking lot of the Madison County Engineer's Office (825 US-42, London, OH 43140), for The Ed Combs Commemorative Parade of Cobras into London.

NOTE: You must be registered for the London Cobra Show, and have the 2023 LCS window sticker on your windshield, in order to participate in the Cobra parade and to display your car on the closed off London streets.

9:00 am

The Cobras leave the Madison County Engineer's Office (825 US-42, London, OH 43140), escorted by the Madison County Sheriff's Department, along the approximately 10 mile long parade route into London.

9:30 am Approximately

See the Parade of Cobras as the Cobras arrive in London on North Main Street.

9:30 am until 3:00 pm

Visit with the vendors that are located along the LCS "Gasoline Alley" on London's Main Street in front of the Madison County Courthouse.

9:40 am

Opening ceremonies, check presentation to the City of London and Madison County officials, at the intersection of London's North Main Street and Fifth Street.

9:50 am

Drivers that intend to give charity rides will need to attend the driver's instruction meeting conducted near the intersection of London's North Main Street and Fifth Street.

10:00 am until 2:00 pm - Donald L. Muirheid, Jr. Charity Rides

Visitors may take a ride in a Cobra for a $10.00 donation to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

3:00 pm

Cobras leave London and return to the host hotel.

5:00 pm until 6:15 pm

Take advantage of the cash bar while relaxing with your friends and your favorite beverage, as well as pick up late LCS dinner tickets or registrations.

5:15 pm - Diane Combs Commemorative Chocolate Chip Cookie Contest

Does everyone say the middle of your chocolate chip cookies are soft and chewy and taste so good. Even if your cookies don't get compliments or great reviews, you are still challenged to see if your cookies can win the 2023 London Cobra Show's chocolate chip cookie contest. Easy to enter - just bring 13 chocolate chip cookies that you yourself have baked. You may enter as many different chocolate chip cookie recipes as you wish. Remember - No commercially baked cookies allowed.

Will your chocolate chip cookies be judged the best cookies of the 2023 LCS?

6:00 pm

Doors to the ballroom open.

6:00 pm until 9:30 pm - Grand Gala Dinner

Grand Gala in the Marriott’s ballroom, socializing with friends, three-course dinner consisting of a salad, entrée and dessert, evening activities, drawing of the winning sweepstakes entry and phone call to the winner. In addition to the tap water served with dinner, coffee, hot and iced tea will be offered on request. A cash bar will also be available for those that may prefer a stronger beverage.

Please note that dinner is open seating, if you desire to have certain individuals sit with you at a table, you should plan to enter the ballroom at the same time.

In order to not be disappointed Saturday evening, please register and purchase your guests dinners early.