Area auto enthusiasts bring custom, stock rides to car show

The Jayhawk Blast Car Show had entries that ranging from custom rods to restored stock models.

Text and photos by Roger Sims

rsims@linncountyjournal.com

A wide variety of cars and their owners showed up at the Jayhawk Blast Car Show on Saturday, Sept. 6. The show, which had 17 entries this year, wasn't plagued by some of the problems at past Blast shows: hot weather and competing car shows.

The pleasantly clear weather Saturday evening gave the whole show an even more laid-back atmosphere than usual. It was so relaxed that some enthusiasts never made it to the ballfield shelter to register their vehicles.

Registered or not, however, the offerings ran the gamut from chopped to stock, rare makes to supercharged rods that even the owners feared to drive at top speed. Even cooler yet, almost all of the entrants were local, and it was a great event to build on for next year.

The Best of Show and Best Truck trophies went to Todd Gillis of Prescott for his chopped 1933 blue Model A Ford pickup.

The People's Choice trophy went to Ed Perry, Mapleton, and his '23 Ford T-bucket coupe.

The second-place Daily Driver trophy went to Vester and Anita Gillette of Linn Valley and their '32 Duece Ford.

The first-place Daily Driver and second-place Best Truck trophies went to Jimmy and Cindy McCullough of Mound City for their 1964 C10 Chevy half-ton pickup.

One of the more unusual rides at the show was a 1952 Kaiser-Frazer Virginian owned by Tyler Shafer, shown here with his daughter Tylar, from Blue Mound. He said he purchased the car from its previous owner in Branson, Mo.