Show and Shine combines new and old with 125 displays

Aryssah Stankevitsch

Times Reporter 

 

Roughly 800 guests and 125 vehicles drove into Kinsmen Park for the 20th anniversary of the Strathmore Fun Runners’ Show and Shine event on July 13.

“I think it’s awesome,” said Derrick Andersen, who brought his 1923 Model T. “Hang out with some people of the same genre, get some ideas on what to do next.”

There was a raffle for a BBQ that looked like an engine, lots of food, a live band, face painting and a jumpy house for the kids.

Todd Blakney has been going to Show and Shines for 30 years – he still has his first car that he bought when he turned 16, and it’s only gotten faster and faster as he’s added additions over the years.

“I’m a power nut guy,” he said. “It’s got to look good and go fast, and then you have my attention.”

Blakney noted that there are lots of cool cars in town but you never get to see them all at once until an event like the Fun Runners’ Show and Shine displays them all. He brought his dad’s 1957 Pontiac.

“The passion to see all this come together … new stuff comes out, and old stuff starts to fade away. And then this stuff gets pulled out and everybody that you look at, the old people go ‘I used to have that.’”