Port Colborne Cruise Night, August 2, 2018

Every Thursday in summer the small town of Port Colborne, Ontario, on the Welland Canal and near Lake Erie, closes a main street and has an informal car show.  We were fortunate to be in the area at the time and surprised by the number of cars that appears.  I said to my wife "Lots of American Muscle, not many exotics like a Lamborghini to be expected." Of course, I was wrong!

Two Dodge Hellcats sandwiching a Mini

1953 Mercury Monarch Sun Valley Coupe

1954 Chevrolet Bel-Air Sedan

 

1930 Ford Model A Tudor

1957 Cadillac Convertible

1968 Dodge Charger

1955 Chevrolet Two-Door

1949 Mercury Meteor hot rod--the Meteor model was sold only in Canada from 1949 to 1976

C3 Corvette and 2004 C4 Z06

Heavily-modified C3 Corvette

The Rapid Rabbit next to a Tesla Model S, the latter with nothing under the hood!

Corvette C7 Z06 Coupe

1964 Corvette Coupe

Ford Model A Pickup Truck hot rod

1957 Ford Thunderbird

1934 Ford Coupe hot rod

Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder arriving...

Another 1934 Ford Coupe hot rod

C3 Corvette and 1970 Dodge Challenger (440/2 x 3 bbl)

1965 Jaguar E-Type, 4.2 l. Coupe

Orleans Cruise Night, May 24, 2018

Invited by my friend Bill Mason, my Corvette Guru since 2015, I attended the weekly Thursday night cruise-in at the Fallingbrook Centre with the C6; Bill came with his nice C7.  Other Corvettes present on this hot (28C) evening included a red C6 convertible, a blue C6 coupe, a later model C3, and a C4 ZR1.  But there were some other very interesting cars present and it was fun to chat with the owners.

1957 Cadillac Sixty Special Fleetwood Sedan, including electric vent windows!

1969 Plymouth GTX, fine example of a muscle car

Corvette ZR1 and a 1965 Plymouth Valiant

1935 Auburn 851 Speedster Replica by Elegant Motors,  powered by a Chevy small block V8, flanked by a Firebird on the left and a Plymouth Prowler on the right

Polaris Slingshot

A flock of old Fords, including the very nice Model A Station Wagon which has been at every single auto event we have attended in the Ottawa area!

White Dodge Challenger R/T, with a nod to the famous white  1970 Dodge Challenger  R/T driven by the anti-hero Kowalski in the 1917 cult film "Vanishing Point." The license plate is "KOWAL RT."

Hwy 43 Car Club Cruise Night: September 22, 2017, Kemptville, Ontario

Not exactly a cross-country trip for the Corvette, the Capital Corvette Club put in an appearance at yeasterday's Hwy 43 Car Club Cruise Night, held on a regular basis every Friday evening in Kemptville, around 50 minutes south and west from Ottawa.  It was the last Cruise Night for the 2017 season and there was a pretty good turnout.  There were a dozen cars from the CCC, as well as several non-affiliated Corvettes.

The event started at 6 pm and it was surprising to see how quickly it got dark.  Summer is really over (actually this was the first day of Fall!) even if there plenty of mosquitoes still at dusk and soon the cars will get put away for that long sleep again.  But not quite yet!

There were hot rods, a number of muscle cars, and a gargantuan 1959 Lincoln.  It was fun to talk to other Car People and I think I may have persuaded the owner of the nice Triumph TR3 that he should consider a Corvette as his next car!

1949 Mercury hot rod, with cool "ghost flames"

1959 Lincoln: Detroit excess personified

The sticker in the rear window says: "Yeah.  It's big!"

On the drive back home to Ottawa I had an interesting experience. There was quite a bit of traffic on the 416 highway on this Friday evening.  I was in the passing lane and a VW GTI (with a very loud exhaust) was in the lane next to me.  We could not get any further ahead as the traffic was too heavy so we were cruising along at 100 km/h side-by-side.  To my astonishment, a motorcycle suddenly appeared ahead of me, having gone through the space between our two cars!  I turned to look at the VW driver just as he turned to look at me and both of us must have had the Totally Jaw Dropped expression.  Crazy.