The annual Spring Fling Show and Shine at the Sukanen Ship Museum drew nearly 160 vintage and classic vehicles of all types.
Owners were eager to talk to visitors about their cars and why they are so special to them.
Baildon district hot rod owner Scott Mushens attended a car show some years ago “saw some cars and was: like I’m going to build one of them. They look really cool.”
The Scottish-born graphic artist found a rusted 1930 Model A near the U.S. border.
“I had to replace all the bottom half. The frame was built from scratch with two-inch kick-up in the front, four inch in back.”
He installed a 350 Chevy motor with tri-power carburetors.
“It does go fast. Most times when you’re just driving it around town it runs off the centre carb. You get it out on the highway and get the speed up and the two other carbs kick in. You can really feel that. It just takes off.”
Bob Goulet from near Silton displayed a 1947 Mercury coupe rebuilt in memory of his wife’s young brother Jeff Bjornson.
“My wife’s brother brought this back from Assiniboia about 1975. He was 15 years old and he was going to build a hot rod.
“He started on it and I helped him a little bit back then when I was dating his sister. He got killed in a car accident in 77.
“The family pushed it down the coulee behind the house and it was kind of out of sight, out of mind.”
When visiting the family at Kandahar in northeastern Saskatchewan, Goulet checked out the car every time.
When he retired from CP Rail in 2013 “I mentioned to the family that I’d like to take it out of there and restore it.”
In 2015 he started, with completion last September. Bob Jones of Moose Jaw supplied some parts.
“I changed all the suspension so it has Ford Mustang suspension, cross member Mustang two front end rear leaf spring, Monte Carlo rear end turbo 200-r-4 transmission.
“It can move,” he grinned.
“We named it Kandahar Kid because in the interior he scrawled with a nail in there Kandahar Kid.”
Ron Walter can be reached at [email protected]
