{"id":244539,"date":"2011-09-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/north-park-car-show-revs-up-for-a-second-year\/"},"modified":"2011-09-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T07:00:00","slug":"north-park-car-show-revs-up-for-a-second-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/north-park-car-show-revs-up-for-a-second-year\/","title":{"rendered":"North Park Car Show revs up for a second year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last year\u2019s People\u2019s Choice award winner, a 1947 Chrysler Town and Country, will be on display at the show this year. (Photo: Mike Ward Photography)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Por David Schwab |<\/strong> Reportero SDUN<\/p>\n

Exhibitors are revving their engines in anticipation of the Second North Park Historical Society Car Show Saturday, Sept. 10 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. behind North Park Theatre at 2930 North Park Way.<\/p>\n

The free event will feature a plethora of historic vehicles vying for first, second, and third place as well as People\u2019s Choice trophies. Parking will be available nearby in the North Park Parking Garage from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast year we had 40 cars exhibit, and this year we\u2019re hoping for 50,\u201d said Katherine Hon, secretary of the<\/p>\n

North Park Historical Society. Thirty people have already signed up. \u201cWe\u2019re encouraging people to submit their applications and register by Sept. 6,\u201d she added. North Park Historical Society members Randy Sappenfield and \u201cBroker Bill\u201d Vivian are both exhibiting cars in this year\u2019s show. Sappenfield says he and Vivian were the ones who \u201cput the bee in the bonnet\u201d of the historical society to host the inaugural car
\nshow last year.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s helpful, added Sappenfield, that the classic car exhibit is being held in the parking lot behind the historic North Park Theatre, which may attract visitors to the event.<\/p>\n

\u201cAny kind of activity that brings people to see the historic core of the area is a good thing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe car show is turning out to be a breadwinner for the historical society,\u201d said Vivian, noting the event was started a year ago specifically to raise money for the North Park Historical Society to fund local North Park projects. Those projects, he said, run the gamut from getting more information out to the public about the historical significance of homes and buildings in the neighborhood to attempts to save community
\nlandmarks.<\/p>\n

One such community landmark to be saved is the neighborhood\u2019s iconic green water tower.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was built in 1924 and we\u2019re working to get it designated as a historic landmark,\u201d said Hon. \u201cWe
\nwant to see it saved.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hon added the Historical Society will apply to the city\u2019s Historical Resources Board to begin the process to get the water tower historically designated.<\/p>\n

Another North Park Historical Society Member, Bob Bauer, will be exhibiting again this year, displaying two cars. One is his British 1954 MG TF, the last in a line of midget cars with small engines and small odies. \u201cOnly
\n9,600 of them were built during an 18-month period,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Bauer\u2019s other entry in the car show is a 1959 MG Replica Roadster, a vehicle that was the predecessor to the more widely popular MGB, thousands of which were exported to the United States.<\/p>\n

Bauer said he likes exhibiting his cars at North Park because of the timing of the event.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like that this show is on a Saturday versus a Sunday and that, unlike a lot of shows, it doesn\u2019t start early in the morning,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Bauer also stressed the thrill in collecting antique cars is not just in possessing them. \u201cThey\u2019re a part of history and I like being part of preserving them,\u201d he said. \u201cI feel like a steward of cars versus possessing them. People have owned them before me, and I\u2019m sure people will own them after me \u2014 if I take care of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hon said the idea behind the historical society\u2019s car event is to \u201ccelebrate our community and bring people to North Park.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bauer added the car show was created by the Historical Society to preserve something old \u2014 the
\nresources in North Park that are of historical significance. \u201cWe need to combine new things going
\non with protecting historical properties,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Hon said he hopes the car show, like the North Park Historical Society that spawned it, will evolve with the times.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a signature event of our community,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s our responsibility now as a community to grow it.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information visit www.northparkhistory.org or call 619-294-8990.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Dave Schwab | SDUN Reporter Exhibitors are revving their engines in anticipation of the Second North Park Historical Society Car Show Saturday, Sept. 10 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. behind North Park Theatre at 2930 North Park Way. The free event will feature a plethora of historic vehicles vying for first, second, and […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":223046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11555","_seopress_titles_title":"North Park Car Show revs up for a second year","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11551,11555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uptown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}