Good Times Cruise-In finds new home in Aldergrove
As another car show season goes late into the third period, and before the puck drops on a new and hopeful hockey season, car nuts can enjoy a monster weekend of events.
As for Canuck fans …
The big news is that the Langley Good Times Cruise-In has switched locations from the city of Langley to Aldergrove. I was shocked when the City of Langley decided to cut ties with the Cruise-In, but evidently they were concerned about policing. Fortunately, Langley Township found another great location for this very popular and wellattended event.
I usually go for the morning roll in, but this Saturday, our Austin Healey will be on the VanDusen Botanical Garden lawn for the Luxury & Supercar Weekend, where I’ll also have a booth displaying my photos.
This doesn’t rule out a quick trip to Ron Ford’s Ocean Park Ford Show in White Rock, a great event that I have missed only once in the past 15 years. Lots of cars normally not seen all year show up for this great event.
Last weekend I attended the Fairlane Comet Show, the Corvette Show and the Pacific International Street Rod Association Bradner Show, a super event with well over 300 outstanding cars.
Another weekend highlight was the Saturday morning I spent at the Crescent Beach Concours d’Elegance. I was blown away by many of the cars.
The Triumph Italia was one of my favourites — basically a TR-3 chassis rebodied by Vignale for the Italian Importer who felt the Italians wouldn’t buy a car without roll-up windows and modern amenities. The car’s styling obviously heavily influenced the boxy Triumph TR4 styling.
I also was fond of the big, brash and powerful 1958 Chrysler 300D Coupe, a car that sold for $6,000 new and was affectingly referred to as the “Bankers Hot Rod.”
Another cool car was the one-owner 1970 Camaro SS 396 with four-speed manual transmission that’s un-restored and just magnificent.
The over-the-top crazy award went to two cars: the 1930 Bugatti Type 44 two-seater Cabriolet, and the 1967 Ferrari 275 GTS/4 Nart Spyder.
Spyder and Cabriolet are two fancy ways of saying convertible, but they’re so elegant and it was amazing to see both cars up close and personal.
But better than seeing either of these cars was seeing them on the road. Both are driven, as all great cars need to be.