All Olds show today in Olds AB.

First time in many years that I am not out on an Oil Rig & there are no conflicting drag racing events so I will be attending.

Pics to follow.

Here are a few of the cars that showed up including

1965 442; 2 1968 442 converts, 1968 HO, 1969 HO, 1975 HO, 2 1969 442s, 2 1971 442s, 2 1970 442s etc

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bump for pics posted....follow the link above.

 

Great shots Dave. Should be a few more people posting too. Hope you had a good time. 75 cars on the show field with about 5-10 cars on the street.

 

Well, were back from the show in Olds. 75 cars, which surprised me since it was thundering and raining 125 miles north (Edmonton). I got to Olds at 8 am to set up. About 10 miles out it started raining. We've never had rain in the 18 previous shows. So I figured there wouldn't be much of a turnout.


I washed my car and pulled out into the rain and parked it. The rain stopped and we set the registration booth up. By 10 am there was about 20 cars. We had to move the registration booth inside as it was starting to really come down. By 10:30 am it stopped and being that Alberta where weather can change in 5 minutes we noticed the mountains on the horizon and blue skys heading our way.


I told everyone this was a free car wash and everybody was brying off their cars and lowering the roofs on the convertibles. At 11 am more cars starting showing up. This was the Calgary guys. They drove 60 miles to the show. The Edmonton guys were no where to be found so I figured no one was going to drive 125 miles from Edmonton where there was a thunderstorm in progress.


AT 11:30 am there were a mass of cars lining up to get in. These were the Edmonton and Northern Alberta cars showing up. Apparently they were held up by an accident on the highway and the RCMP had everyone stopped until a clean up could be completed.


The rain never did return and at 12 noon the official start of the show, it was dry and the sun was starting to show it self. Officially then, it has not rained at our show for 19 years.


48 people attended the banquet at the Royal Canadian Legion and had a choice of roast beef or Cordon Bleu Chicken. There were potatoes, mashed and small, garden and Caesar salad and ice cream with or without strawberries.


The trip back was sunny and warm and from the comments made, it seems that everyone was happy. Long distance went to a 1970 Cutlass that drove from Winnipeg (1408 Kms - 875 miles) and the Long distance award for a non member (who says he's joining) went to a 1932 5 window Business Coupe that drove from Mission BC (997 Kms or 620 miles) .

The Mayor's choice went to that same 1963 Starfire and the Oldest Oldsmobile at Olds went to the 1932. As before every participant won a door prize. Our 20th show for next year looks promising as it seem rain doesn't scare Oldsmobile people.


I will post other pictures from members (no duplicates) as soon as I receive them. Thanks for posting Dave.

 

uploaded a bunch more pics.

 

Thanks Dave

 

Thanks for the Pics. Looks like a great day.

 

Dave, thanks for sharing. Always good to see photos of some nice Olds!

 

Jeff, in case you didn't know, the Puget Sound Chapter is hosting an all Oldsmobile show this coming weekend. They put on a good show and since you're in the area you might want to take it in.

Don't know their address off hand, but if you go to our website www.oldsclub.ca we have a link to their website. Check it out.

 

Had a great time at the show in Olds. This was my first time ever having a car in a show and I couldn't have piceked a better one. It was great to see how far I still have to go. As I told Alan R at the show. This is my first Olds and is a learning experience. I hope all the veterans at the show enjoyed my work in progress. Looking forward to many more shows in the future.

Thanks

 

The wife & I had a great time at the show. First time for us & we met lots of people while helping with registrations & parking cars. Thanks again to Ken for all the organization you do for this. It was pleasure meeting you & "50/50" Ken, car parking organizer Rick, Denise at the registration desk, and all the other fine folks we had a chance to talk to & swap stories with. The banquet was really good & we were happy to attend. Looking forward to next year.

 

Oh what gorgeous cars!!! Aren't they all just so beautiful? Thanks guys, for all the pics! Very nice turn out you had.

 

Here are four of us with our 442s.

I am on the far left with my Aztec Gold 69 442 wearing my trademark Shady Brady. These 4 cars all came from the Merv Bauman collection in April of 2011 as Craig & I bought four of his nine 442s/SXs when he iquidated his 43 car collection.

Craig is standing in front of his black 70 442 & sold the white 71 442 to Dave. I sold the Pewter 69 442 to Darcy. Craig also owns another Glade Green 71 442 from the Merv Bauman collection but that car was not in attendance.