The San Francisco Old Car Picnic is scheduled for Saturday, October 17, 2026, at Hellman Hollow, 800 John F. Kennedy Drive, with the event set to run until 4 p.m. The picnic welcomes cars, trucks, motorcycles and bicycles model year 2001 or older, and spectators can attend for free. Exhibitors pay entry fees that support San Francisco programs serving people with developmental disabilities.
The eucalyptus-lined bowl was once known as Speedway Meadow before the city renamed it Hellman Hollow in 2011 to honor venture capitalist Warren Hellman.
Hellman Hollow’s car-show setting has its own motoring history: the city says the meadow was once part of a 19th-century “Speed Road” used for horse racing and early automobiles. Today, it hosts major gatherings including Hardly Strictly Bluegrass and large community picnics, making the Old Car Picnic part of a long-running pattern of public events on the field. San Francisco Recreation and Parks’ history of the meadows traces that evolution…