Dusty Wheels show draws 102 vehicles to Rosetown Main Street
By Ian MacKay
ROSETOWN – Rob Giesbrecht from Elrose and Joe Taylor of Grandora won the Dusty Wheels car show trophies on Friday.
Taylor's 1932 Ford pickup won the Mayor's Choice Award, while Giesbrecht took home the Members Choice Award with a 1956 Ford Victoria Town Car.
Over 100 vintage, antique and special vehicles, including two small tractors in half-ton boxes, lined both sides of two blocks of Main Street during the auto club's 35th annual show.
Joe Taylor accepts the Mayor’s Choice award from Mayor Trevor Hay near the end of the Dusty Wheels auto show last Friday. The Grandora man’s 1932 Ford half-ton has a box from 1933 and a Chevrolet Ram Jet 350 crate motor. Photo by Ian MacKay
Rob Giesbrecht poses with the Members Choice Award in front of his 1956 Ford Crown Victoria. Members of the Dusty Wheels Auto Club selected the Elrose man’s vehicle for the honour and presented it near the end of their annual show last Friday. Photo by Ian MacKay
"Somebody counted and said there were 102 (vehicles)," Barry Churchman, the show's main organizer, said later, adding, "The weather was beautiful. There were cars there I'd never seen at Cruise Night before, which is a positive thing," Churchman said. They included vehicles he doesn't consider "show cars" but are owned by people who take pride in them, he said.
"A lot of guys don't feel their vehicle is good enough to bring out and they definitely won't go to a car show, but they bring them out to Cruise Night," he said. "Sometimes it helps to get them motivated to make their cars better." Other people "just want a car that they can take out and drive and have fun with," Churchman said.
Taylor brought a black half-ton with a 1932 Ford body and 1933 Ford box, powered by a Chevrolet Ram Jet 350 crate motor.
"The frame's been stretched out" and the wheel wells "are in the centre" of the box, Taylor said. "Plus I went with the flush-mount doors instead of the overlap" and turned them into suicide doors, he said.
He chopped its height by two inches "and it's got 12 inches of rubber under the back, so it's tubbed three inches and the back fender's been widened, too," he said.
He did all the work himself, including painting it, other than the wheel wells and fenders, which a friend did, Taylor said.
"There's nothing original about this car," selected by Mayor Trevor Hay. Giesbrecht said. "It's a bunch of stuff. It's sitting on an '87 Lincoln chassis and I have Buick holes in it. It's got all sorts of stuff on it."