Two summers ago Terry got the 1977 Chrysler New Yorker fixed up well enough to drive safely around town. We don't actually drive it much so he entered it into two local classic car shows. He actually won the first one he entered!
Terry drove downtown to the Police Department's Cruiser Car Show early in the day, July 13th, and registered, luckily finding a spot to park the old girl. Our friend Eli, a policeman, encouraged Terry to enter, otherwise we probably wouldn't have known about it.
The kids and I joined him a couple hours later. It was quiet fun to walk around and take it all in. The kids especially enjoyed this beach buggy. We had just seen a show about them not long before.
Who would've thought that after an entire childhood of despising our old station wagon I could ever possibly think they were cool. But it happened.
Art Alley.
The police put on a presentation about their K9 dogs. I vividly remember sweating down my back it was so hot.
We decided to let the car sit until the end of the show and went home to have pizza movie night. After finishing our pizza Terry got a phone call informing him that he'd won an award! We booked it down there.
They gave away awards for the best-of cars of their specific decade. Terry was passed over for the 70's but won the orphan award for the car that's cool but doesn't quite fit anywhere. The reason he ran to the stage was because the announcer kept encouraging all the winners to "rush the stage," but they were all so old that they just took their sweet time getting up there while we all clapped for them. Terry finally rushed the stage, the young buck.
The trophy is on top of the car.
Our Mexico mission trip bus driver Jerry happened to be walking by so we visited for a bit.
The car had been running enough to drive but actually not running well. Terry described the problem as a chugging. Turned out two or three of the cylinders weren't hooked up! Once he fixed that, it ran so much smoother and was more reliable. So we went for a little joy ride that night.
Trouncie needed to check it out when we got home.
The very next weekend, July 20, Terry entered into a very small show at Hardware Hank. No awards were given but it was kind of fun him.
He put the car to work giving out gospel tracts. People seemed intrigued by the car so he had lots of conversations.
The kids all got free root beer floats and we enjoyed walking around the parking lot to look at the all the cars.
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