The annual Father’s Day Show and Shine was as packed as ever.
Thousands fought for parking east of Queensway today (Sunday) to go and check out hundreds of classic cars, trucks, and other vehicles at Lheidli T’enneh Memorial Park.
One of those cars was Wayne Clarke’s bright red 1964 Chevy 2.
“It is basically all stock except for a new steering column,” Clarke told My PG Now. “It has a 283 cubic inch motor, 4-speed on the floor.”
The car took Clarke two years to build, he said he bought it as little more than a shell in 1992.
It was road-ready in 2005, since then Clarke said he has but 33,000 miles on it and traveled to many car shows across western Canada.
“We drive it everywhere, it doesn’t get trailered anywhere,” he said. “It keeps us busy all summer.”
“We love looking at everyone else’s cars, we come and people watch a lot. When you get a bigger show like this people are coming in from Quesnel, Vanderhoof, McBride. You get to see a lot of different vehicles.”
One vehicle at the Show and Shine was much different than the others.
While most of the other vehicles were completely spotless, Guy Lefevre’s car looked like it had been in more than one bad accident, and was covered in doodles.
This is for good reason: the car was fresh from PGARA’s Hit to Pass class.
With a beat up 65 door and ‘Da Boss’ spray painted across the front hood, Lefevre said small four cylinder engine car was the second-last car running at Hit to Pass in September.
“The philosophy we have is anyone could build this car. I built the first one of these on my front street,” he said. “Everything is bolted in, everything is removable, cement in the door and go.”
“I am so happy the weather turned,” he said, looking at the packed crowd of people. “I brought it down on the hopes people would get interested in racing and Hit to Pass.”
Lefevre became even more popular when he started handing out a paint pen to kids walking by to sign the car – making a point to warn each of them to not doodle on any of the others at the show.
“The more signatures I get, the more this one is going to have to come back out next year,” he said with a smile.
To anyone interested in getting into cars, Lefevre says “don’t wait.”
“I waited way too long in my life to do it. I am just happy to get more interested in general.”
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