They've done it once, twice, thrice and more.
And this year muscles, hotties and classics will be putting rubber to the road for the 12th year in a row.
The Tauranga Toy Run is back on December 2, and organiser Jill de Buisson and her core team are revving up – and encouraging locals and out-of-towners to do the same – whether there's 'rain, hail or shine”.
'We have a ton of cars coming up from Palmerston North, and we have a whole lot coming down from Auckland, so everyone is putting in a huge effort to get here. It's a big exercise for a hot-rodder to take their car out on a cruise like this, plus they donate as well.”
Hot rods, muscle cars and classics will congregate at Baypark Stadium at 6pm before starting their engines at 6.30pm and cruising through Papamoa, the Mount, and Downtown Tauranga before slowing down and cooling their cars off outside The World's End in Fraser Cove shopping centre at about 7.45pm.
But take note – it's not the sort of event for motorcycles or what Jill calls ‘Jappas' – Japanese imported cars.
Jill says monetary donations will go to Waipuna Hospice and toy donations to the Child Cancer Foundation.
Cash donations can be made to the Child Cancer Foundation – just write ‘Child Cancer Foundation' on the envelope the money is in and Jill says she will make sure the money goes to the right place.
'Donations can be dropped at the World's End bar at Fraser Cove, but the toys have to be new toys because the children have no immune system. Educational toys – books, puzzles, things like that – rather than soft toys.”
People are also able to donate at Baypark between 6pm-6.30pm; right before engines start revving.
And Jill's two grandchildren will be there – as they have every year they've been able to.
Jett Harkins, 10, and Amelie Harkins, seven, have attended each and every toy run that they have been alive so far, and Jill says they love the event.
And at the end of the day, when the fumes have cleared and the cars are back in the garage needing a good polish, Jill says it's about giving back.
'For me it's a personal thing and I do it to say ‘thank you'. I couldn't have done it without Waipuna Hospice, they're incredible.
'We're all 100 per cent charity, we don't take any money out for printing or anything. So 100 per cent goes to Waipuna Hospice and the Child Cancer Foundation.”