Vice president of the Old Bar Beach Festival Erin Byrne, was delighted to announce they had broken the amount of Volkswagen Kombi cars at the festival, a long with a few other notable records.

The previous record had been 229 and this year they reached 253. During the Kombi parade they had 157 Kombis participate, which was an increase on numbers around 120 in previous years. This year they also opened the parade and festival up to Volkswagen Beetles with 25 coming to the festival.

Erin estimates around 35,000 to 38,000 came to Old Bar over the weekend, an increase from previous year's numbers.

FULL GALLERY OF PHOTOS: OLD BAR BEACH FESTIVAL

There was also a record amount of classic cars on the Saturday of the festival and Sunday's 5km Family Fun Run had the most competitors they've ever had with 109 runners.

Erin said that as always the Kombi's were a stand out feature of the festival, however other new features like the camel rides and petting zoo fundraiser by Lauder's Real Estate were a hit.

"We had local character Mermaid Sequinella arrive on a camel which was great," said Erin.

The festival also attracted celebrity reality television star's The Block's Karstan And Maxine, who snapped a photo in a Kombi for Instagram.

Food vendors and market stall holders, were almost always constantly filled with customer's across the two days.

This constant rate of customers helped boost businesses on the fringe of the festival like clothing store The Bird Tree and restaurant Taste.

Erin said local accommodation was also inundated with bookings, with new business the Boogie Woogie Beach House having a full house, a long with caravan park Lani's on the Beach and Chiltern Lodge Country Retreat.

However, this economic boost for the town and festival was at risk of not continuing on Sunday morning when a black out was caused when car crashed into a power box on Bluehaven Drive at Old Bar's Ocean Links Estate.

The crash, which did not cause injury to the driver, did not cause the power to go, however the town's power had to be switched off to isolate the problem.

Owner-operators of Aurora Show FX Hamish McDonald and Jim Bird, were in charge of the main stage at the festival.

They said they had just finished sound checking for the children's act The Jolly Pirate's Children Show and were starting to work on the first band Alyse Gray and band's sound check, when the power blew.

Hamish said he was very thankful for the work of his team and others in getting a generator organised in a timely fashion, but just as it was on its way the power came back on. Due to organiser's allowing a 20 minute leeway to the schedule, entertainment was able to keep fairly close to original times.

Erin said the power was gone for one hour and 20 minutes, and didn't impact the festival's trade.

Even though the festival has wrapped up for 2015, Erin says for herself and the rest of the Old Bar Beach Festival committee the planning doesn't stop, it just "slows down".

The team's focus will now be on listening to feedback obtained through email and social media, along with getting their certificates of thanks out to businesses and volunteers.

"We are completely volunteer run," said Erin.

"Without our 80 volunteers there would be no festival."

THE Old Bar Beach Festival committee has donated $20,000 to the Old Bar Community Preschool extension. During the festival a cheque was presented on the main stage to Old Bar Community Preschool director Merrilyn McLoughlin.

“She was so happy, she cried,” said vice president of the Old Bar Beach Festival Erin Byrne.

Erin said donations like these were an important part of the Old Bar Beach Festival committee’s philosophy on giving back to the community that supports them.

“This isn’t a one-off support from the committee,” said Erin.

Erin said it was important that the festival continued to support its local groups like Rotary who organise the festival’s car parking, the Lions, other community groups and also charities such as hosting the Leukaemia Foundation’s Light the Night walk on the Saturday night of the festival.

“We hope we can provide an outlet for people to create things like Light the Night,” said Erin.