A rear view look: The 2021 Blue Mountain Car Show

Posted byJames MeyerPosted inArchives, Local Events, Old events

If my memory serves me well enough, I’ve been to each iteration of the Blue Mountain Car Show since it started. When I went to the 2020 show, I was a casual visitor. The only thing I think I notably recall from that show was a custom motorcycle. It had a blue and black color scheme with a skull and skeletal motif and a kickstand fashioned as a hand flipping the bird. I don’t quite know why, but that was the piece which stuck out the most. Also present as a special guest was a man named Horny Mike from the reality show “Counting Cars,” on the History Channel. No, I’m not making that name up.

When I went to the 2021 show, I was a bit more savvy and brought my camera. I wasn’t working for the paper yet, but that was coming soon. The 2021 show did not have the demolition derby from this year. Instead, like the year before, there was a VIP attending; an actor from the 1980s TV show “The Dukes of Hazzard.” Sadly, I don’t remember his or her name. Reviewing the photos I had from from the ’21 car show, I found myself with a pair of niggles in my head. Among the cornucopia cruising cavalcade of classic cars, which ones are we drawn to and why? Why do we like these collections of cloth, bolts, and paint?

For the ’22 show I had a collection of five cars which I thought earned attention, and they were fairly easy to pick. For the ’21 show I had to whittle down a hard field of seven. Even though it would be a little extra work, I decided to keep all of them. Like the last car show, this is more of a photography gallery then a dedicated story about the event. As they say though, a picture is worth a thousand words. What stories do these cars tell?

A 1929 Ford Model A sedan and it’s 1928 pickup relative give a look into a time when aerodynamics probably weren’t well understood yet, if at all. Both elder statesmen cars were owned by Robert and Gwen Seidel.
A smooth and silky 1955 Dodge La Femme owned by Mr. Scott and Mrs. Hope Miller had a production run of fewer then 1,500 cars with a sales campaign directed toward the female sex. A marketing thought experiment consisting of whether that same strategy would work in the current age feels prime with this car.
Sitting beside its one year older sister and sharing the same owners as it, the regal 1956 Dodge La Femme would be my choice if I had to pick between the two. I believe the violet on white presents a more stark contrast.
An original glasstop 1954 Ford Skyliner owned by Mr. Newt Webber of Mills, Wyoming earns my vote of best in show. A piece of Detroit iron that looks ready to cruise Main Street on a good summer’s night.
Below it is a 1951 Chevy pickup with a blown 327 engine owned by Mr. Kit Killion. I say it’s rocking the matte black finish quite well and the wood panel bed is a good touch.
Owned by Kit and Pam Killion, this 1927 Essex Coupe looks like a near double for the Ford 5-window coupe in Steven Spielberg’s classic “American Graffiti.” Where were you in ’62?
Above it, rocking an orange paint job so classy and shiny it doesn’t deserve it and would put any other car trying the same thing to shame, is a 1957 Chevy Bel-Air under the ownership of Justin and Tina Killion.

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