The Lone Star Expo Center and Montgomery County Fairgrounds in Conroe, Texas, turned into a sea of GM iron on June 7th and 8th, 2025. The show capped entries at 2,000 vehicles, and every inch of the grounds looked packed. Trucks from all over rolled in. Squarebodies, OBS builds, clean C10s, and plenty of big-power bruisers.
This was not a casual cruise-in. The rules were laid out up front: 2000 or older only, no trailers inside the grounds, and no nonsense like burnouts or golf carts clogging the lanes.
Check-in started Friday at noon, and by the evening rows of Chevys and GMCs stretched across the asphalt and grass. Saturday morning brought the full crowd. From eight to five the lanes stayed busy, with owners swapping build stories, crawling under each other’s rigs, and making notes for their own projects back home. Vendors lined the fairgrounds with hard parts, wheels, and swap-meet scores, and the smell of barbecue and tacos carried through the air all weekend.
The show ran rain or shine, and this year the Texas heat did the work. Shade tents were full, coolers emptied fast, and trucks baked in the sun. Nobody seemed to mind. The crowd skewed heavy with builders and longtime owners, the kind of guys who knew every nut and bolt on their rigs.
Sunday was awards day. At 1 pm sharp, the Top 100 and Best Of picks were called, along with cash giveaways. Winners took their plaques and envelopes back to their trucks, and by mid-afternoon rigs began loading out, many with long drives ahead.
Classic Truck Throwdown proved again why Texas has become ground zero for GM truck culture. The show delivered exactly what it promised: a tough lineup of classic trucks, a straight-shooting crowd, and two days where the focus stayed on the machines. No gimmicks, no fluff, just trucks.