{"id":24665,"date":"2025-07-26T04:21:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T04:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/24665\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T04:21:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T04:21:06","slug":"northwest-deuce-days-generates-2-9m-for-local-economy-says-destination-greater-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/24665\/","title":{"rendered":"Northwest Deuce Days generates $2.9M for local economy, says Destination Greater Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The popular Northwest Deuce Days event brought a wave of spending to Victoria, according to tourism group Destination Greater Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>The internationally renowned car show took place<a href=\"https:\/\/cheknews.ca\/1300-classic-cars-arrive-in-victoria-for-northwest-deuce-days-1267135\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> from July 17 to July 20<\/a>, bringing with it 1,300 pre-1952 classic cars, and drivers hailing from as far as Sweden, Australia, Finland and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>In total, the three-day event generated approximately $2.9 million in \u201ceconomic impact,\u201d according to Destination Greater Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>That spending helped support 650 local jobs, with the number of participants increasing by eight per cent since the last Northwest Deuce Days in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Watch CHEK\u2019s full report on the event from July 19 below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northwestdeucedays.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Northwest Deuce Days<\/a> happens just once every three years.<\/p>\n<p>The car show gets its namesake from the Ford 1932 hot rods, nicknamed \u201cDeuces,\u201d referring to the year they were made.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not just the classic cars that draw people to the event.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce Nelson, a Deuce owner, says everyone who has a passion for cars comes together during Northwest Deuce Days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven with finished cars, yeah, there\u2019s always something to be done,\u201d he said as he examined his engine on Saturday, which was making concerning noises.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s the camaraderie. There was two or three guys around here this morning that were helping me diagnose the problem,\u201d he said. \u201cThe camaraderie of all of this is huge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This year, there were 1,060 Ford vehicles participating in Northwest Deuce Days, and some 520 vehicles belonged to U.S. owners.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Nursey, CEO of Destination Greater Victoria, says the high number of American participants is a \u201creflection of the event\u2019s ability to bring people together and create lasting connections across borders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce again, Northwest Deuce Days brought incredible energy into our region, drawing thousands of visitors and delivering major economic benefits for Greater Victoria, while putting our destination on display around the world,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Destination Greater Victoria says a more detailed report on the economic impact of this year\u2019s event is in the works.<\/p>\n<p>With files from CHEK\u2019s Grace Miller<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/cheknews.ca\/drivers-rev-up-for-25th-annual-oak-bay-collector-car-festival-my-foots-still-on-the-gas-pedal-1266385\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Drivers rev up for 25th annual Oak Bay Collector Car Festival: \u2018My foot\u2019s still on the gas pedal\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The popular Northwest Deuce Days event brought a wave of spending to Victoria, according to tourism group Destination&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46,1062],"class_list":["post-24665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}