Vintage iron
Highland Ford celebrates 100th anniversary with show
They came from Pictou County and beyond, rolling into the Highland Ford parking lot early on Saturday – a convoy of Fords.
There were pickup trucks, uptown automobiles from a simpler age and street-racin’ ready muscle cars.
The Ford drivers were there to show off their classic cars, sharing their passion with other like-minded people and to celebrate 100 years of Ford’s presence in Pictou County.
Pictou’s Jim Wall is the president of the Pictou County Antique Car Club and he brought one of his pride and joys to the show.
”It a ’31 that’s been chopped to lower the roof,” he said as he stood alongside his hot rod.
“It’s the same car that was in (the classic movie) American Graffiti; that’s what it was modeled after,” he said, and indeed, the words American Graffiti are scrawled on each side of it.
Wall also owns a 1955 Chevrolet Nomad, but he was cruising on Saturday in his bright yellow one-seater, which barely has enough room to squeeze in two people and not much headroom to spare. “It’s is a nice little toy to have.” They were plenty of toys in the Highland Ford parking lot: Thunderbirds, Shelbys, a Comet, a splendid 1964 Galaxie, and of course, Mustangs, from the late 1960s to the more recent – but certainly still vintage – rolling pieces of iron.
Ron Wilson bought his 1958 Fairlane in New Brunswick about a month ago. It’s his first classic car, he said, as he chatted with his son Shane Wilson.
The gleaming, all-original black beauty is not an investment – it was purchased for one of the best of reasons: because he wanted it.
“Oh, it’s a classic,” the 67-yearold said.
“I grew up with cars like this.”