Post by Mike B on Sept 5, 2009 9:16:25 GMT -4
Come see classic autos at Smithville Car Show
By Laura Lane 331-4362 | llane@heraldt.com
September 5, 2009
SMITHVILLE — A sea of classic cars, that’s what you’ll see at the 17th annual Labor Day Smithville Car Show Monday.
More than 200 cars — boxy Nash Metropolitans, bullet-nosed Studebakers, tail fin-adorned Cadillacs, sleek Corvettes, convertible-topped Thunderbirds — await you at Smithville park.
The event happens rain or shine; expect fewer cars if there are showers. Many of these beauties only go out in fair weather.
Pentecostal preacher Jim Mahurin will be there with his blue 1949 Ford Custom sedan, a car he spent the winter of 2001 restoring inside a friend’s heated garage. You get an idea how much he loves the car, his first classic automobile, when you see those giant front and rear bumpers he paid $1,000 to have re-chromed.
A few years back, his sedan won first place and a two-foot-tall trophy in the Best Ford category at the Smithville show. The trophy sits on a shelf in his garage, in close proximity to the car.
Bob and Nancy Hechlinski’s turquoise 1950 Studebaker Champion Regal Deluxe most likely will be parked there in the grass, too.
And Kary Scholl, who has at latest count owned 109 cars in his time, will be cruising into Smithville in his “new” 1929 Model A Ford, purchased two months ago from a man in Bedford.
“He bought it and then didn’t want it,” Scholl said. “I found the guy who restored it and turns out he worked on it for 16 years.”
He’s leaving his collection of Lincoln Continentals at home: a 1958 with the original convertible top, a 1966 with suicide doors and a two-block-long 1978 Mark V.
His most recent purchase? A small sport-utility vehicle for his wife; he traded in an old GMC van to take advantage of the Cash for Clunkers deal. “I bought a Honda for chrissakes.”
If we are lucky, Harold Weaver will drive his black 1940 Ford to Monday’s show. “He can balance a quarter on the fender with the engine running,” Mahurin said. “It’s a beautiful, all-original car.”
Got a story to tell about a car or truck? Call 812-331-4362, send an e-mail to lane@heraldt.com or a letter to My Favorite Ride, P.O. Box 909, Bloomington, IN 47402.
Owners of more than a dozen cars that will be on hand at the Smithville Car Show Monday gathered this week at Sonic Drive-in in Bloomington. David Snodgress | Herald-Times
By Laura Lane 331-4362 | llane@heraldt.com
September 5, 2009
SMITHVILLE — A sea of classic cars, that’s what you’ll see at the 17th annual Labor Day Smithville Car Show Monday.
More than 200 cars — boxy Nash Metropolitans, bullet-nosed Studebakers, tail fin-adorned Cadillacs, sleek Corvettes, convertible-topped Thunderbirds — await you at Smithville park.
The event happens rain or shine; expect fewer cars if there are showers. Many of these beauties only go out in fair weather.
Pentecostal preacher Jim Mahurin will be there with his blue 1949 Ford Custom sedan, a car he spent the winter of 2001 restoring inside a friend’s heated garage. You get an idea how much he loves the car, his first classic automobile, when you see those giant front and rear bumpers he paid $1,000 to have re-chromed.
A few years back, his sedan won first place and a two-foot-tall trophy in the Best Ford category at the Smithville show. The trophy sits on a shelf in his garage, in close proximity to the car.
Bob and Nancy Hechlinski’s turquoise 1950 Studebaker Champion Regal Deluxe most likely will be parked there in the grass, too.
And Kary Scholl, who has at latest count owned 109 cars in his time, will be cruising into Smithville in his “new” 1929 Model A Ford, purchased two months ago from a man in Bedford.
“He bought it and then didn’t want it,” Scholl said. “I found the guy who restored it and turns out he worked on it for 16 years.”
He’s leaving his collection of Lincoln Continentals at home: a 1958 with the original convertible top, a 1966 with suicide doors and a two-block-long 1978 Mark V.
His most recent purchase? A small sport-utility vehicle for his wife; he traded in an old GMC van to take advantage of the Cash for Clunkers deal. “I bought a Honda for chrissakes.”
If we are lucky, Harold Weaver will drive his black 1940 Ford to Monday’s show. “He can balance a quarter on the fender with the engine running,” Mahurin said. “It’s a beautiful, all-original car.”
Got a story to tell about a car or truck? Call 812-331-4362, send an e-mail to lane@heraldt.com or a letter to My Favorite Ride, P.O. Box 909, Bloomington, IN 47402.
Owners of more than a dozen cars that will be on hand at the Smithville Car Show Monday gathered this week at Sonic Drive-in in Bloomington. David Snodgress | Herald-Times