Over a 10-month period, Sheffield’s Karl Wollerman impressively turned an ordinary Ford Torino into the famous ‘70’s law enforcement muscle car from the Starsky and Hutch television show.
Considering the Classics Car shows let locals showcase their vehicles from another era Story and photos by David Cook
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lassic cars find their caretakers through a variety of ways, but one phrase heard repeatedly from owners during a recent show illuminated the most common origin — “Well, my dad…”. That “dad” helped spark so many initial automotive journeys shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, but fathers seem to play an important role in developing a lifelong interest in cool cars. If dad loved them, there’s a good chance his offspring will as well. Hennepin’s Fourth of July
all their lives while others are chasing a memory, the feeling of being younger and behind the wheel of dad’s car, or maybe it was the first one they could call their own. “It’s a time machine. It brings you back in time to the feeling of when you first saw one, and it makes you think of the people you were with back then,” Steve Thompson of Granville said. Thompson was driving a brilliantly orange 1969 PonTHE OWNERS tiac GTO and added he had Some owners have been parking classics in their garage nine other classics at home in car show, part of the village’s weekend-long celebration, was the perfect place to find a variety of cars and owners from the Illinois Valley. Vehicles on display included the classic and modern, the original and modified, the restored and unrestored, American and European, historic military, motorcycles, bicycles, and since we’re in the Midwest, a few tractors.
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