Get your Mustang ready for Customer Appreciation Day 2012!

Get your Mustang ready for Customer Appreciation Day 2012!

Posted on 15. Jun, 2012 by in Car Shows, News

CJ Pony Parts - CAD 2012

The summer season brings great weather, longer days and the herd of Mustangs! CJ’s has lots of events planned, both near and far for you to attend this summer, but the most important event that no Mustang fan should miss is Customer Appreciation Day 2012! If you can only make it to central Pennsylvania for one event this summer, make it CJCAD12!

After last year’s record breaking event, we’re setting our sights even higher for this year! While the slight threat of rain kept a few customers away last year, we’re optimistic for a picture-perfect day this August. We hope to see lots more Mustangs, beating our all-time highest attendance record from 2010! Last year, YOU, our loyal customers helped us make a record donation of $25,000 to the Penn State Hershey Four Diamonds Fund. This year, with your help, we want to do even MORE. So let’s keep the momentum rolling at CJ’s 12th annual FREE car show event!

The Where & When:

CJ’s Customer Appreciation Day 2012 (#CJCAD12), will be held on Saturday August 11th, 2012 from 9am-2pm EST at our Harrisburg, PA location. The CJ Pony Parts showroom will be open from 9am-1pm. We’ll also be running our popular Premium Parking Permit program again this year, though the permits are already SOLD OUT!

Continue reading below the photo album for more details about this year’s big event!

Popular Vote Car Show:

We will be holding five popular vote contests again, this year. All categories are FREE to enter! There is no registration fee required!

CAD 2011 Winners - CJ Pony Parts

Some of the winners and runners-up from last year’s CAD


Popular Vote Categories:

  • Best Early Model Mustang (1964.5-1978)
  • Best Fox Body Mustang (1979-1993)
  • Best SN95 Mustang (1994-2004)
  • Best S197 Mustang (2005-2013)
  • Best of Show

The Charity:

At the last few CADs, we have established a strong tradition of making bigger and better donations to our favorite charity, The Four Diamonds Fund. That’s going to continue this year, as all of our donations from the day, including from charity auctions, t-shirt sales and food sales will be going right to The Four Diamonds Fund. Customer Appreciation Day is all about showing our customers a great time, while helping out a charity that really matters! Last year, we crushed 2010′s donation of $19,000 by raising an incredible $25,000 in 1 day and we’re sure we’ll do better this year, with your help!

If you don’t know who The Four Diamonds Fund is or what they do, here is a little background info from their website.

The mission of The Four Diamonds Fund is to conquer childhood cancer by assisting children treated at Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital and their families through superior care, comprehensive support and innovative research. Any family with a child being treated for pediatric cancer at Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital is automatically eligible for support. The fund has helped more than 2,000 families since 1972. Approximately 100 new families receive support each year.

CAD 2011 Charity Check Ceremony

$25,000 raised last year… Let’s crush that number!

The Vendor Showcase:

Our showroom will once again be transformed into our very popular Vendor Showcase area, where you can meet some of our BIGGEST vendors and check out displays and information on the parts you want! Vendors like TMI, BBK, Prestolite, Distinctive Industries, Magnaflow, Edelbrock, Powermaster and a special appearance by Ford Racing, with a new performance Mustang! Representatives from each company will be on hand to display new parts and help answer questions. Keep checking for updates on more vendors possibly showing up this year!

FREE, FREE, FREE:

As always, we will have great music playing all day from our MC tent in front of CJ Pony Service. There will also be free food and drinks for everyone, tons of giveaway prizes at our PRIZE WHEEL, raffles, silent auctions and guided tours of our facilities. There are plenty of activities for the kids (including the return of Pony Rides!) and a new car being raffled off, by Hospice of Lancaster!

We hope to see all of you this year! Stay tuned for more updates on CAD 2012 as we get more information. We’re sure this year’s event is going to be the best one yet!

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14 Responses to “Get your Mustang ready for Customer Appreciation Day 2012!”

  1. Mike king

    08. Jul, 2012

    What does it cost to show up and get in?

    Reply to this comment
    • Matt

      09. Jul, 2012

      Hi Mike: It doesn’t cost a dime. Our Customer Appreciation Day is completely FREE! Come on out, display your Mustang, be entered in the car show, grab a hot dog and drink, and spin the prize wheel…all for FREE! Hope to see you on August 11! – Matt B.

  2. Mary

    12. Jul, 2012

    Are you offering the pre-register for a fee again this year to get a ‘good’ spot?

    Reply to this comment
    • Matt

      12. Jul, 2012

      Mary, we will be doing it again. Keep an eye out, as we’ll be announcing the Premium Parking Permits in the next two weeks!

  3. John Zera

    06. Aug, 2012

    If you bring your mustang without a premium parking permit are they put in a show area or just mixed in with regular parking?

    Reply to this comment
    • Matt

      06. Aug, 2012

      Hi John: Any Mustang is welcome to be part of the car show and, if you show up, we’ll have a spot for you in the show field.

  4. Billy

    09. Aug, 2012

    Where do the regular cars (non-Mustang) park? Unfortunately, my Mustang is unfit for a 2 hour each way trip.

    Reply to this comment
    • Matt

      10. Aug, 2012

      Hi Billy: We’ve partnered with one of our neighboring businesses, who has graciously allowed us to use their parking lot for non-Mustangs during Customer Appreciation Day. We’ll have folks out on the main road directing you where to go. See you tomorrow!

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