Old car show pics

here are some archives pictures of some of the old car shows and get togethers on the prairies in the 60's. enjoy!

 

Wha!!!! Sorry about the largeness!!!

 

No problem at all!
Great photos, thanks for posting these.
Do you know where these were taken?

 

No problem at all!
Great photos, thanks for posting these.
Do you know where these were taken?

 

these photos broke my monitor.

 

well one is for sure they were taken after 1962,thanks for posting em.

 

KILLER. Need a bigger monitor. To cool, thanks.
Slim

 

Thanks for posting. Makes you wonder what happened to them.

I picked a '39 tudor that was a hot rod in Red Deer in the early '60s

 

NO problem about the size seriously!!!

Great photos, thanks for sharing!

 

No problem at all about the SIZE!!!!

Remember, SIZE matters!

Great pics!

Thanks for posting!

 

They were taken by the draggins car club in the 60's? The club is from saskatoon SK, so I am assuming the pics are from there.

 

Here is a front view of the first pic.

 

Good idea Jay. We need a thread for old car show pictures. thanks for posting them up.

 

Awesome. Thanks for the pics.

 

Those are great Jay! The parade pics are downtown Saskatoon, there is a Draggins car show pic from the old Saskatoon Arena (they just had the 50th this year), a group of cars at the Grosvenor Park Mall (again in Saskatoon) and I believe the colour shot of the parade float is at the old Draggins club house.

It's funny you should start this thread now as I just this weekend picked up a January 1960 issue of CAR Speed and Style which had this coverage of a car show in Regina Saskatchewan put on by the Road Knights (are they still around?).











Keep 'em commin'

-Dave

 

A possible interesting aside is the MG pictured above as owned by Doug Feltham was won brand new in a jingle contest for (I believe) Brylcreem and ended up with small block Chevy power while Doug had it.

-Dave

 

Cool stuff Dave. I wonder if that hemi powered rail was local because SIR only opened in 66 I think? This show coverage is also interesting and still fits the mold of saskatchewan car shows where people seldomly fix up vintage ford stuff, rather 20's buicks or chevy's....

 

I don't know anything at all about that digger, but these shows drew from all over and it's possible it came from out of province or even the northern states?

If I trip over an old-timer I'll try to pick their brain..

-Dave

 

Jay, if you look behind the deuce coupe in the centre of your arena car show pic there appears to be a competition rail with a surplus 'chute attached and draped from the rafters. This has to be a late '50s pic as well. These guys may have been using an air strip somewhere nearby..? Food for thought.

-Dave

 

Resized it. I'll bet that '62 Pontiac was performance-optioned and that's why it was in the lineup.

 

Thanks for sharing and giving us a bit of hot rod history from your area.
I'd bet that with the poverty caps that Catalina had the full factory go fast setup under the hood. A guy tends to forget how good looking that the model of Plymouth next to it was/is when you don't see many of them anymore.

 

Great pics, thanks for posting.

 

awesome pics jay its cool to see old local show pics

 

thanks for the pics. however, they seem to be incomplete. where are the rusted out, primered, barb wired, open floored cars?

 

awesome vintage saskatoon car show pics!

 

cool thread

 

I was just thinking that. This was back before rust was invented and you could buy good virgin material to start with.

 

Did this thing not get a 283 in it in the late 50's? Ian Mcdonald told me about this thing being won in a contest. Had "Instant Rubber" written on the trunk lid??