{"id":74239,"date":"2025-12-07T07:32:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T07:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/74239\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T07:32:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T07:32:06","slug":"estero-classic-car-show-draws-big-crowds-and-toys-for-tots-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/74239\/","title":{"rendered":"Estero classic car show draws big crowds and Toys for Tots donations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESTERO, Fla. \u2014 Classic cars lined Fashion Drive in Estero on Saturday afternoon as the Coconut Point Mall welcomed big crowds for its annual holiday celebration. <\/p>\n<p>WATCH: Check out some of the classic cars on display: <\/p>\n<p>Estero classic car show draws big crowds<\/p>\n<p>Curious shoppers and serious car enthusiasts strolled through the shopping center, gawking at a colorful lineup of cars. That includes Patrick Crofton&#8217;s bright-red 1960 Chevrolet Corvette. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Been restored from the ground-up by me,&#8221; Crofton said. &#8220;So it&#8217;s a hand-built car.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The car show was just part of the festivities on Saturday. The mall also hosted arts-and-crafts vendors, exotic animals, &#8216;tropical&#8217; dancers, and a parade. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We just want everyone to enjoy the holidays, kick it off and just get back into the spirit of giving and the experience of being in a shopping mall,&#8221; said Julie Clark, Coconut Point&#8217;s marketing director. <\/p>\n<p>The mall teamed up with Realtor Brittany Skotak to collect toys ahead of the holiday season. Coconut Point accepted donations for Toys for Tots. Toys for Tots is a non-profit run by the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.toysfortots.org\/about\/how-the-program-works\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to its website.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The group collects unwrapped toys from across the country and helps  distribute them to kids in need. <\/p>\n<p>The car show was also for a good cause. It raised money for the Estero Rotary Club, Clark said. <\/p>\n<p>This is the third year Coconut Point hosted the event. Thousands of people attended in 2024, according to Clark, along with hundreds of classic cars. <\/p>\n<p>For people like Crofton, it&#8217;s a fun opportunity to do some good &#8211; and show off their ride. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s great meeting people, you know, that are into the same things you are, and, you know, people that have the same values and enjoy life,&#8221; Crofton said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESTERO, Fla. \u2014 Classic cars lined Fashion Drive in Estero on Saturday afternoon as the Coconut Point Mall&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,9193,42249,42250,42251,42252,10124,264,356,24692,4294],"class_list":{"0":"post-74239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-cape-coral","9":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","10":"tag-cape-coral-news","11":"tag-chevrolet","12":"tag-chevrolet-corvette","13":"tag-classic-cars","14":"tag-coconut-point","15":"tag-coconut-point-mall","16":"tag-estero","17":"tag-fox-4","18":"tag-lee-county","19":"tag-toys-for-tots","20":"tag-wftx"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}