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[ Pinecrest Car Show, Evelyn Greer Park, Village of Pinecrest,
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Our SVVS Chairman Malcolm Bailey's son James and family
live in Miami and Malcolm and wife Sheena frequently visit them. During
their most recent trip to the USA in March
2023 while there they also made a visit made
to a local car show in Pinecrest Park. Photos and Report by Malcolm Bailey The Pinecrest Car Show is an annual community family event, presented by Pinecrest Parks and Recreation Department, featuring antique, muscle, and supercars well as a bounce house, music, food trucks, and beverages. The event was sponsored by a local motor dealership so entrance was free, both to participants and the public. There were a good number of cars spread mainly around the perimeter of the large field, normally used for baseball. March is one of the drier months in southern Florida and, true to form, it was a bright sunny day with the temperature reaching the upper twenties and humidity rising accordingly. The trees behind the cars provided welcome shade for enthusiastic discussion. Although a local car show, some who displayed cars had travelled a couple of hours to get there. As expected, the majority of cars were American, with a few European rarities, including a RHD 2000 Mini Cooper, a 1973 De Tomaso Pantera (Ford Cleveland V8-powered Italian-American hybrid), lone Austin Healy 3000, Triumph Spitfire, TR6, and MGA and an MGB GT, a Merc 200 fintail and a couple of R107 coupes, a brace of Jaguars (E-type V12 and XJS), a number of VW Beetles, a VW bay window Microbus and a recent McLaren, resplendent in Gulf Team colours. Perhaps the rarist American was a 1959 Ford Fairlane 500 Skyliner in very period pink and white, but a likely equally rare survivor was a newly restored 1976 International Harvester Scout. These were off-roaders of similar ilk to our Land Rovers or the US Ford Bronco, sold mainly alongside I-H agricultural equipment to farmers. It looked immaculate and, aside from the wheels, original although like many of the older cars present, it was a resto-mod - powered by a crate 6 litre GMC V8 truck engine with automatic gearbox. Other older resto-mods included a very innocent-looking grey 1937 Pontiac and a somewhat more noticeable Ford of similar age. The most original older car was an immaculate 1948 Ford Flathead V8 Super Deluxe convertible. A personal favourite had to be a copper-coloured Chev Corvair Monza in very good original condition. Contrary to Ralph Nader's 'Unsafe at any speed' assertion, I have fond memories of accompanying friends towing a powerboat behind a saloon version at speeds in excess of our legal limit, with no histrionics whatsoever. Ford Mustangs of all ages were well-represented,
including my son James's 2018 blue Shelby 350GT, but were clearly outnumbered by
muscle cars from the General: a couple of Chevelles, Camaros and related
Pontiac GTO and Firebirds, and Corvettes from the mid-60s to current. The
most impressive modern was a current Ford GT, the spiritual successor to
the Ford GT40 and current flagship offering from Ford US. The most
outrageous vehicle present had to be a Chevy small-block V8 powered custom
bike, perhaps the ultimate embodiment of the proverbial engine on wheels. |
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