Charity · Detroit, MI

Cars & Cigars 2019: a Detroit charity gala

A room full of people who came to watch him work.

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Dinner tables in front of the stage and the band

1 of ~28hands trusted with the Opus X — the same ones at your partyCigar Journal, 2016

6 minfrom loose leaf to a cigar in your guest’s handHis own words

150+nights that ended with the room around his tableFranklin’s own count

The cause

$200,000 for the Cigar Family Foundation

Cars & Cigars is a charity show in Detroit organized by the Fuente and Celani family foundations, and in June 2019 he was back at the table for it. His posts that week run from “I am back to the table! Get Ready Detroit!” to the pre-party, and then to the number: “$200.000 for Cigar Family Foundation from the Celani Family at Cars & Cigars Show Charity Event 2019.”

The room

An arena, a stage and an auction

The evening filled an arena: a stage with a band at one end, dinner tables in front of it and a painting auctioned on stage. People, in his words, “was traveling from all over the country to support the great cause,” and he spent the night among their tables, cigar in hand.

Detroit

A fixture in his year

Detroit comes round almost every June. His archive has him at Cars & Cigars with Carlito Fuente Jr. in 2015 and 2018, at this one in 2019, and back in 2022 and 2023.

Last nite in Cars & Cigars Show Detroit, a Charity Event organized by Fuente & Celani Family Foundations! Where many great people was traveling from all over the country to support the great cause!

Franklin PichardoPosted June 7, 2019

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Who Franklin is

Trusted with the Fuente Opus X—At the Fuente table since 1995—Formula 1 Miami’s official roller—Featured in Cigar Journal—Chosen by Hublot, Tudor and Bell & Ross—

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Franklin Pichardo has been rolling since 1995, the year Arturo Fuente released the first Opus X — and he is one of the few in the world the family cleared to roll it.

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