Revved up, roaring to go for Gravenhurst Car Show Saturday
GRAVENHURST — Ford Nation will have a tougher time picking a winner tomorrow than they did with Dougie Ford.
There are 270 cars and trucks registered as of Friday — and Tara Doyle expects that to double Saturday morning for the 25th Annual Gravenhurst Chamber of Commerce Car Show at Gull Lake Rotary Park.
With great weather and a stellar lineup of 500 vintage vehicles, voters will have a hard time picking their choice automobile of the day.
Everyone gets a ballot to mark the numbers of their top three choices.
The winner takes home the “Piston Trophy” as fan favourite.
The top nine vote-getters, after that, will receive random order prizes, said Doyle Friday afternoon as she co-ordinated a couple dozen other staff, volunteers and vendors who began arriving.
Ten of them were inmates from the Beaver Creek institution, who were putting up signs and fencing around the Sawdust City Beer garden in right field, a job they help out with each year.
Later they took a break for a pizza lunch on a beautifully sunny morning.
Doyle and chamber manager Sandy Lockhart were busy with last minute details as the first of the cars arrived to check out the best location tomorrow — out in centre field or in under the pines overlooking Gull Lake.
Jason Gliddon of Neviss Electric and disc jockey/emcee Scotty Dunlop were there checking out the wireless sound system — new this year — that will allow everyone to hear the announcements on speakers spreacy throughout the park.
Chamber employees Waverleigh and Tara Doyle model this year’s Car Show T-shirts for volunteers.
