Key Club Car Show Draws 36 Entrants
Several pristine and eye-popping Corvettes were among the 36 entrants at this year’s annual Key Club car show Saturday, May 7. Photo by Ray Balogh.
By Ray Balogh
InkFreeNews
SYRACUSE — On a brisk day with blustery winds Saturday, May 7, the Wawasee High School Key Club hosted its third annual car show in the parking lot of Eagles Aerie 3760 on Kern Road in Syracuse.
Just a short walk to the adjoining property of the Syracuse Elementary School, the Key Club’s second event, Touch-a-Truck, also drew a crowd of adults and children.
Members of the Eagles organization served up 40 large chicken halves and 60 hamburgers during the car show, which ran from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Touch-a-Truck event ran from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Car show awards were divided into two categories — adults and students — and included recognition for the best old-fashioned, antique, classic and modern vehicles; best imports, muscle cars and hot rods; stock and modified vehicles; and choice awards from the local police and fire departments and high school administration.
Novelty awards went to the “Rustiest Hunk of Junk” and “Best Mom Car.”
The event was accompanied by loudspeakers continuously blaring oldies music, with participants and attendees reminiscing to the familiar tunes of REO Speedwagon, Fleetwood Mac, Doobie Brothers, Elvis Presley, Steve Miller Band, Sam Cooke and Neil Diamond, among other artists.
The oldest vehicle in the show was Marvin Galbreath’s blue 1937 two-door Chevy sedan, and the newest kid on the block was a 2022 Camaro.
A fuller article on the car show will appear in the Wednesday, May 11, edition of The Mail-Journal.
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- 1968 Volkswagen Beetle. Note the wicker suitcase in the trunk.
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- The VW wagon on site was hopefully in sorry enough shape to snag the event’s “Rustiest Hunk of Junk” award.
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- Muscle cars abounded at the Key Club car show Saturday, May 7.
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- 1948 Crosley. The 650 cc engine pulled only 26 1/2 horsepower and the vehicle’s top speed was 40 mph. The body style is called panel delivery. Mike Smith of Millersburg purchased the vehicle because his grandfather used a similar model for a tool truck for his business.
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- 2006 Jeep Rubicon, owned by Jacob Gymrek of Pierceton, added a little patriotism to the Key Club car show.
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- 1937 Chevy two-door sedan. The oldest vehicle at the car show is owned by Marvin Galbreath of Syracuse.
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- Dan Duncan sits behind the wheel of his son Jay’s 1971 Chevy K/5 Blazer. Dan filled in for his son, who was across Kern Road playing in a Wawasee High School home baseball game.
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- Owner Mike Tiltges, who lives on Lake Wawasee, stands next to the “gull of his dreams,” a 2019 BMW I-8 gull-wing roadster. He said “only a handful were made” and he was attracted by the vehicle’s rarity. The car’s color is officially known as “terra world copper.”
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- Most of the vehicles in the show had their hoods propped open to show off the engine.