Highway To Heroes Car Show - A Photo Story

The seventh annual Highways To Heroes car show was held on Saturday.

The car show is sponsored by the Friends of The Forces Fellowship. The Fellowship’s role is helping to integrate local military personnel with the community - to welcome them and make them feel they are part of the community.

The car show is a fundraiser but also an opportunity for the community to come out and meet local members of the military.

Despite the heat dozens of cars were entered in this year’s show.

Proceeds from the event go to assist military families, veterans and charities in the community.

But the event was much more than proceeds to help it was a tangible way to express the importance military members have to the community.

Here is a look through pictures at some of the sights at the event.

Photos and Text by Robert Thomas

Technical Assistance by Natalie Clysdale

THE CARS WERE ALL POLISHED UP AND READY TO BE LOOKED AT BY CAR ADMIRERS - MJ INDEPENDENT PHOTO

ENGINE COMPARTMENTS WERE DISHWASHER CLEAN READY TO BE ADMIRED - MJ INDEPENDENT PHOTO

THE LEAD SINGER FROM THE BAND NOISE COMPLAINTS BELTED A SELECTION OF 80S AND NEWER ROCK MUSIC - MJ INDEPENDENT PHOTO

NOISE COMPLAINTS - A ROCK BAND MADE UP OF MILITARY PERSONNEL FROM THE BASE - PLAYED OUTDOOR SETS - MJ INDEPENDENT PHOTO

THE DRUMS OF NOISE COMPLAINTS - MJ INDEPENDENT PHOTO

DANCING BOb WAS IN FROM REGINA DOING WHAT HE DOES BEST - MJ INDEPENDENT PHOTO

THE HORSEPOWER WASN’T JUST IN THE CARS BUT THERE WERE SOME PONIES OUT ON PARADE - MJ INDEPENDENT PHOTO

THE GRANDKIDS GOT TO SIT IN A CLASSIC CONVERTIBLE AND HAVE THEIR PICTURES TAKEN - MJ INDEPENDENT PHOTO

IT WOULDN’T BE A CAR SHOW WITHOUT CHROME, CHROME AND MORE CHROME TO BE ADMIRED - MJ INDEPENDENT PHOTO

JUDGING THE VEHICLE ENTRIES WASN’T JUST TAKING A QUICK GLANCE OVER BUT ALSO INCLUDED A CHAT BETWEEN THE JUDGES WITH THE ENTRANTS TO ASK THEM ABOUT THEIR CREATIONS - MJ INDEPENDENT PHOTO

IT MAY HAVE BEEN HOT OUTSIDE BUT ICE CREAM AND TIME IN THE SHADE WAS TREASURED - MJ INDEPENDENT PHOTO

MANY VEHICLE TAILLIGHTS WERE DISTINCTIVE - MJ INDEPENDENT PHOTO

THE MAJESTIC TAIL FIN OF VEHICLES FROM DAYS GONE BY - MJ INDEPENDENT PHOTO

TAILLIGHTS OFTEN COMPLIMENTED THE VEHICLES PAINT GLEAMING IN THE SUN - MJ INDEPENDENT PHOTO

THE HEADLIGHTS WERE NOT TO BE OUTSHONE BY THE TAILLIGHTS- MJ INDEPENDENT PHOTO

ONE OF THE PRIZE RIBBONS GIVEN OUT - MJ INDEPENDENT PHOTO

PROUD OWNERS SIT OUT NEXT BY THEIR VEHICLE - MJ INDEPENDENT PHOTO

THE COLOUR SCHEMES ON SOME VEHICLES SEEMINGLY BORROWED THE YELLOWS FROM VAN GOGH’S SUNFLOWER SERIES - MJ INDEPENDENT PHOTO

CARS AND TRUCKS WERE NOT THE ONLY VEHICLES ON DISPLAY - MJ INDEPENDENT PHOTO

DALE JELINSKI, A VOLUNTEER WITH THE SUKANEN SHIP MUSEUM, DROVE THE TRACTOR FERRYING SPECTATORS FROM THEIR CARS TO THE VIEWING AREA - MJ INDEPENDENT PHOTO