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About 50 vehicles were on display at the Kaleva Car Show Saturday. Event coordinators said that number is in line with what the show would usually see during Kaleva Days, of which the event is typically a part. Kaleva Days was canceled this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Arielle Breen/News Advocate)
lessAbout 50 vehicles were on display at the Kaleva Car Show Saturday. Event coordinators said that number is in line with what the show would usually see during Kaleva Days, of which the event is typically a part.
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About 50 vehicles were on display at the Kaleva Car Show Saturday. Event coordinators said that number is in line with what the show would usually see during Kaleva Days, of which the event is typically a part. Kaleva Days was canceled this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Arielle Breen/News Advocate)
lessAbout 50 vehicles were on display at the Kaleva Car Show Saturday. Event coordinators said that number is in line with what the show would usually see during Kaleva Days, of which the event is typically a part.
... moreKALEVA — It was all for the love of cars.
Ask most of the Kaleva Car Show participants why they show up, and that is the answer.
“It’s really about showing our love of cars,” car show participant Doris Gaffey said.
Gaffey is better known by some as Punk a Doodle, and she adds that for her, it’s also about creativity.
Gaffey, of Mesik, brought her 1938 street rat rod-style Chevy that others at the show referred to as the “scissors” vehicle.
“I used to work for General Motors selling car seats, so I’m a commercial seamstress and (the truck’s theme is) all about sewing and boating,” Gaffey said, hinting at her love of water skiing that factored into the repurposed ski as the base for her vehicle’s shifter.
The door handles are her old work scissors and the rear area also features a “Runs with Scissors” mantra and repurposed treadle sewing machine beams.
Gaffey was not the only participant with strong ties to vehicles and GM in particular.
Sandi Kaskinen was on site with her 1967 Oldsmobile F-85 two-door Coupe.
She said her aunt Marilyn was a GM employee who bought the car new.
Then, Marilyn sold the car to Kaskinen’s grandparents a few years later.
“As a young girl, my grandpa would drive me around town here and there in the F-85 and I just fell in love with the car!” reads part of the vehicle’s story on display at the event. “In 1987, my mother inherited the F-85 and kept it in storage; faithfully taking it out a couple times a year to check it over and run it around.”
But her mother knew how much the car meant to Kaskinen and a few years later told her she would be getting her inheritance.
“So, the beautiful red 1967 Oldsmobile F-85 became mine to love and enjoy!” she said.
Kaskinen said she and her husband of Kaskinen Auto Sales in Kaleva, sponsored the trophies for the event as a way to help do what they could to ensure the event could take place.
Further down the line, one could find vehicles that gave attendees a sense of nostalgia as well as some that were relatively newer.
The show also featured a drag strip area where there were two junior dragsters on display.
There were about 50 vehicles entered into the car show.
John Reusch, one of the event coordinators, said that was about the same as an average year.
He said organizers did not know what to expect for turnout as most events have been canceled lately.
While the car show would typically be held alongside Kaleva Days, the show went on while Kaleva Days as a whole was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Reusch said the goal was to offer an open-air event that gave people something to attend as well as an opportunity for participants to pull their vehicles out of garages to show others.
Participants also had the chance to win door prizes and trophies for a variety of categories.
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