About P2O

Hosted by the Mid-Ohio region Porsche Club of America, Porsches 2 Oxford is simply a “casual, Porsche Party”…giving attendees the opportunity to hang out in a great little uptown area with a bunch of other Porsche nuts.  With its convenient location and great amenities, Oxford, Ohio offers the Porsche lover a great opportunity to visit with old friends while making new ones too. Oxford is the perfect place for a fantastic car event.  With its quaint, brick streets and a great infrastructure (there to support Miami University), Oxford offers a small-town atmosphere with all the amenities of a big city.  Enjoy terrific food prepared by local Kiwanis Club volunteers, or countless eateries and restaurants near show center.  For those interested in a cooling adult beverage, Oxford has its fair share of establishments to meet any thirst.

Friday is our casual Party in the Park, where evening activities invite arriving Porsche enthusiasts to park and enjoy food, beer, and music on the uptown plaza lawn. Saturday is our signature event where attendees show off their cars and cast their ballots in the Peoples Choice car show – with awards to approximately the top 10% of registered cars.  Additionally, as things wind down later Saturday afternoon, the award winners lead the other cars out of uptown Oxford and through the rolling southwest Ohio countryside to Hueston Woods State Park – once again creating the longest line of moving Porsches in Ohio history.

On Saturday July 30, 2005, MORPCA hosted the first annual Porsches 2 Oxford event.  Marketed as a ‘casual Porsche party’, P-cars of all ages and models began arriving days before the event — from as far away as Ontario and Maine.   With 140 Porsches adorning the brick streets of quaint, uptown, Oxford, it was obvious that MORPCA had picked the perfect site for a Porsche event.  Traffic was prohibited in the downtown area from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.  – giving us a great location to display the cars.  With an adjacent bandstand serving as our event headquarters, this was a unique site that was just perfect for a casual Porsche party unlike any other.  Attendees were able to enjoy a variety of shops, restaurants, and watering holes – all within easy walking distance of their cars and their friends. Before it was all over, 14 different PCA regions and eight states were well represented at the show.

In 2006, P2O proved to be anything but a one-hit wonder. Registered cars increased from 140 in 2005 to approximately 225. With a 50% increase after just one opportunitity to make a lasting impression, the long-term prognosis of P2O was officially legitmized. Word of mouth has proven to be P2O’s best marketing ploy as past attendees returned a second time but also brought along many Porsche friends making their first visit. After just two years, P2O went from a conceptual idea scribbled on a napkin to the fastest growing Porsche gathering in the Midwest — and perhaps the country. In 2007, attendance increased to 258 cars despite weather forecasts that were less than ideal. The success of P2O is not the cars, but the attendees. The casual atmosphere and hometown feel make P2O inviting for all Porsche owners. Attendees park wherever they like to showcase cars among all other models and vintages; the only class is the ‘Porsche’ class to make everyone feel welcome no matter what they drive. Attendance increased to 378 cars in 2008 and 410 cars during a rain-soaked event in 2009.  Over 500 cars are expected to participate in future years.

For those staying overnight, the new Elms Hotel is literally just a few steps off the main street and offered an adjacent, secure, covered parking garage.   Several other nearby hotels and B&Bs support our growing guest list and are well-versed in providing for our attendees. The beautiful Miami University campus was also within easy walking distance and offered many in attendance the opportunity to ‘see what a college campus was meant to look like.’

Porsches 2 Oxford owes its roots to the brainchild of MORPCA members Bill and Marylynn Roe.  In 2003 and 2004, the event was known as Porsches 2 Pinckney (Michigan).  After the only restaurant in Pickney closed, volunteers began looking for a new location for a 2005 event. Oxford, Ohio was chosen after months of searching throughout the tri-state area for a perfect venue with the infrastructure and charm to be a permanent home.