WESTVILLE – Some things just get better with time.
Ask the more than 100 people who drove their antique cars to Westville Sunday and they'd be quick to tell you vehicles are one of those things.
Although numbers were down significantly from last year at the Westville Fire Department's annual show and shine, considering the weather and outages caused by Earl, it wasn't too bad, says organizer Frank McInnis.
This is the eighth year for the car show which was held at Victoria Park from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
We had a lot of phone calls from people that really didn't know what the field conditions were going to be," McInnis said. "We figured we might have to have it in the parking lot across the street because if the field was wet. Nobody's going to want to take their $50,000 car and get it stuck in the mud."
But such was not the case.
"The weather came out good though and we were able to get all these cars out on the field," McInnis said.
The cars were from all over Nova Scotia including Antigonish, Sheet Harbour, Masstown, Halifax and Amherst.
Those who gather love to get together with friends, sit in old cars and swap old stories about the good old days, McInnis said.
For the spectators it's the enjoyment of seeing old vehicles lovingly - and expensively - restored.
"There's a lot of money tied up around here," McInnis said surveying the cars entered.
Floyd Kendall brought his 1934 Ford from Durham for the show.
He bought the car restored from Oshawa, Ont. and had it taken to Nova Scotia by transport truck.
It has a steel body, a Ford motor and runs like a charm.
"I just have a love for old cars," Kendall says. "It's been in my blood since I was a kid.
I always had my own car, at least one."
Call it a habit or call it a sickness, but either way "you got to have one," he says.
Antigonish resident, Dan Mahoney bought his 1952 Chev in Guysborough more than two decades ago. He's painted it and restored the chrome.
He loves getting out to the car shows.
"I take it to them all," he says.
