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What’s new on Car Show HQ: August 2026

Live check-in alerts, clearer voting rules, sponsor billboards on windshield cards, international currencies, guided custom domain setup, and more. All free, all live now.

August 14, 2026 · 2 minute read

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The short listClaim your club’s address in one minuteLive registration alerts at the check-in tableOpen voting and closed voting, made clearYour Top list, your rulesWindshield cards that sell sponsorshipsShow your prices in your currencyYour own domain, guidedSign in with Google or MicrosoftAll of it, included
What’s new on Car Show HQ: August 2026

The short list

We have been busy. Everything below is live for every organizer today, at no charge.

Claim your club’s address in one minute

The new start page lets you pick your club’s web address, tell us about your show, and get rolling. You choose something like yourclub.thecarshowhq.com, it checks availability as you type, and most clubs build their first show the same day.

A volunteer hand-lettering a windshield card at a show check-in table

Live registration alerts at the check-in table

Keep the registrants page open on show morning and new entries appear the moment they register at your kiosk. Your card-writing crew starts hand-lettering the windshield card before the driver has parked. Small change, but it is the difference between a line at the gate and a rolling start.

Open voting and closed voting, made clear

Every show now declares its voting style in plain words. Open voting: anyone at the show can vote. Closed voting: participants only.

And the crowd favorite works the way shows actually run it. At a closed show, spectators can still vote People’s Choice while the judged classes stay participants-only. That split used to require a workaround. Now it is just how the setting works.

Your Top list, your rules

Some shows want the Top 25 to mean most votes overall. Others want Best of Show runners-up. Now it is a setting: pick the tradition your show follows, and the results page says which one it is, so nobody argues with the trophy table.

Windshield cards that sell sponsorships

One sponsor gets a full-width billboard across the bottom of every card. Two sponsors flank the card. More than that and they stack, and your club logo got bigger up top. Every card on every windshield is ad space your sponsors can actually see, which is a better pitch than a line in a program.

Show your prices in your currency

Dollars, Australian and Canadian and New Zealand dollars, pounds, euros: registration fees display in the currency your entrants expect. (G’day to our first Australian inquiry.)

A classic Australian ute parked on a show field

Your own domain, guided

White-label shows can now connect a custom domain through a guided flow that checks each step as you go, and the certificate takes care of itself once the domain points at us. No DNS spelunking.

Sign in with Google or Microsoft

One less password.

All of it, included

All of it is live now, for every organizer, at no charge. If your club is still running paper ballots, claim your address and see what show day feels like with the counting done for you.

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