Musician and longtime Malibu resident John Zambetti loves collecting things. His house is a treasure trove of memorabilia from his 40-year career in music.

For the past 15 years, he's been organizing an annual Christmas parade of wood-paneled vintage cars, affectionately known as, “woodies.”

“The idea was, how do people celebrate Christmas in California?” said Zambetti.

“And I thought, why don't we do a Christmas woodie parade? That'd be kind of fun to do!”

Zambetti’s band, The Malibooz, which he formed with Walter Egan, was inspired by surf culture and of course the woodie is a big part of Californian surf iconography.

Zambetti explained, as he was getting his 1941 Ford ready for this year's parade, that there was some doubt as to whether the parade would go on after the devastating Woolsey fire, which he evacuated from as well.

“People have almost a PTSD from this, you know,” said Zambetti.

“It really was a very traumatic situation.”

But then, Zambetti said, the calls started coming in.

“Several people initially called me to say, 'Please, are you going to be doing it again?' I said, 'Sure.'  I really feel people do have a sense of community around certain rituals, for want of a better word, that happen every year and it gives them some sense of normalcy.”

Vintage car collectors from all over Southern California joined the December 9th parade, which ended up in Malibu Village with some live music and refreshments.

“A lot of people [were] really looking forward to it just to get back into the groove again,” said Zambetti.

And this year, all proceeds and donations went to the victims of the Woolsey fire via the Boys and Girls Club of Malibu.

“Everybody's trying to reach out to help any way they can and hopefully this may provide some sense of normalcy, and Malibu is still here.”

For John Zambetti and Malibu, it was important that the show go on.