Holy Trinity show features cars, trucks, tractors, bikes
- Chris Abbott
- Jun 5
- 2 min read
Chris Abbott
Editor
There was more to Holy Trinity’s annual car show than classics, modern muscle and import/tuners.
Plaques were also handed out on Friday, May 23 to trucks (classic, muscle and 4x4), tractors (antique and modern), and motorcycles (offroad, sport, cruiser).
Doug Eighteen brought his 1970 Pontiac GTO from Port Dover, a classic muscle car he has owned since 1974.
“Didn’t know it would be a classic, I just knew it was cool… and it was fast,” Eighteen smiled. “That’s what I was looking for, something powerful and fast. I decided to keep it - I had extra garage space so I tucked it away in there (in 1989), and then after about six years my wife said, ‘What are you going to do with that?’ I said, ‘I think I’ll restore it one day.’ She said, ‘You should do it, free up the garage space.’’
In ’96 he started a five-year restoration project and had it back on the road in 2001.
“I’ve been happy with it ever since.”
It was Eighteen’s first HT car show – he had planned to come in 2024 but it was threatening thunder storms.
“I like to walk around and see every car, talk to the owners, and I’ll hang around my car a little bit and talk to people if they’re interested.”
Wearing overalls and a western cowboy hat, HT student Blake Numan drove his family’s blue 1957 Fordson Dexta antique utility tractor to the show from Jarvis, a distance of approximately 16 km depending on the route, and parked it next to a blue New Holland tractor.
“Just under an hour,” said Numan, who has been driving tractors on his family farm since he was seven.
Numan chose the Fordson, which is still active at their pig-and-cash-crop farm, over his family’s John Deere 9RX, ‘because it’s older.’
“I feel more people would reminisce about it… they’d appreciate an older tractor.
“The diversity here today is nice, especially the year difference between them,” he said as an even older antique Ford automobile was leaving the parking lot.
Rain contributed to a smaller turnout on the 23rd, and organizer Clark Chernak said they are considering moving the 2026 show back one week to May 29.
“Hopefully we’ll have better weather on the last Friday of May. We’ve had the show about seven times and we’ve had some great shows. We had a really good show… then it got soggy a couple times.
“My goal for the car show is for me not to run it. I try to delegate – we form a committee and start planning a couple months before the show. We break it down so that one student has to do one job, and if they need it, I’ll help. Today, it ran smooth as silk. Many hands make light work.
“The goal is to get kids excited about transportation and my program – my program here is very strong,” said Chernak.
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