Friday, July 10, 2026

Canada Day in Meaford

I always enjoy heading downtown for the Classic Car Show on Canada Day.  I know nothing about old cars, but every year I might learn a little!  And I can at least admire the  work that went in to restoring these!  Modern cars are part of these shows too now, but I don't know what rules they have to say who is out and who is in.

The town decorates the Trowbridge Street bridge, and many festivities go on on the far side, but that requires crossing a rough gravel parking lot, so I stick with the classic car show on this side.

The paint job on this old truck was remarkable.

I liked the colour of this paint job.

This was nice too.

This is a 1933 Buick.

The day before there had been a car show over at the Long Term Care home, but it was just breaking up as I got there so I only had time to grab a couple of photos.

I was surprised to see this actual old Meaford fire truck.

Across the water down at the harbour Canada Day didn't interrupt the sailing school

One young sailor was far in front of the others.

But these two were catching up quickly, all of them headed out to the bay.


7 comments:

  1. Nice to see these cars and nice pictures of the young sailors.

    All the best Jan

    ReplyDelete
  2. A huge amount of hard work to do that restoration. My Dad had an Essex, sold it to buy a Ford Cortina in about 1952 or so. Would be worth SO much more today. Love the sailing boats there.

    ReplyDelete
  3. So many antique cars look better than new, but the ratrods are fun too.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Great photos FG. I'd take either of the Chevy trucks.

    ReplyDelete
  5. This seems to be Car Show season. I like that first red truck.

    ReplyDelete