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Article: Newport Antique Auto Hill Climb is an annual festival that takes place on the first Sunday of October in Newport, Indiana. The festival is run by the Lions CLub of Newport, and the town of Newport. Each year a Hill Climb Queen is crowned, as well as many winners of the timed race.
The Newport Auto Antique Hill Climb is an international antique auto up hill timed event held each year in the small Indiana town of Newport, an event that attracts those crowds of one hundred thousand plus to that little town. Automobiles, trucks and motorcycles from the Steam, Brass, Vintage, Antique, and Classic Car eras, make timed runs from a standing start, up a steep hill to a finish line 1,800 feet away. It is an Indiana auto event second in size only to the annual Indianapolis Speed Motor Speedway event, the Indy 500.
History
In 1909, Newport Hill was part of the main, north to south, road going through Vermilion County. A local road that went through the middle of the town of Newport. It was a route that connected Northern Indiana and Terre Haute. The hill had been used from time to time by a few automobile manufacturers for testing their cars.
The first Hill Climb Contest took place June 8, 1909 and was promoted by local merchants as were the six other following Hill Climb Contests. There were large crowds in those early years. People came by horse and buggy, automobile and chartered train. One newspaper wrote that every Danville, Illinois automobile was in Newport. By 1916, other more profitable automobile racing events took attention away from the Hill Climb and it was discontinued until it was resurrected in 1963.
1963 brought a two year resurrection of the Hill Climb by the Newport Volunteer Fire Department. The crowd was estimated at 7,500 the following year, but the Fire Department lost money and the resurrection attempt was discontinued.
In 1968, a new Newport Lions Club was formed and chartered by a group of local area men. They met on the west side of the town square at a restaurant owned by Bill Hawkins, named Bill’s Grill (presently a Tavern). One of the club’s charter members, Bill Wiggins, asked fellow members to sponsor the defunct Hill Climb. This was in September of that year and with notes and minutes of the meeting scribbled on napkins the 1st annual Lions Club Newport Hill Climb took place the following month. There were 80 competition entrants in the 13 classes that first year.
Today’s Hill Climbs have evolved into technically sophisticated events with hundreds of supporting volunteers and huge international crowds all stuffed into a small town of less than 600 people.
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