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Club History This page is still under construction Salt Spring Cruisers Car Club Founded in the Spring of 2000 I had purchased my first collector car (a Morgan) in the early May of 1999. I met another Morgan owner visiting here on Salt Spring. They recommenced I join the group of Morgan owners called MOGNW (Morgan Owners Group North West) A few weeks later I traveled to Victoria on Fathers Day in June that year to take in the British car Field Meet in Beacon Hill Park. I called my father who was living in Victoria at the time and we went together in the car. (Full story here). I joined this group MOGNW. The next year I attended the biggest British Car Show in the province, The ABFM at Van Dusen Gardens in Vancouver. At this show I spotted a fellow walking past and we recognized each other as being from Salt Spring. We spent the day together viewing all the cars and became good friends in the process. Near the end of the day, one of us said, “Hey, we don’t have a car club on Saltspring, lets form one. I see lots of special cars on the island!” We got busy and made little invitation slips, that could be handed out or placed on the windshields of appropriate cars. Within a month we had a list of about 30 residents of the island interested. Ken and I then came up with the bright idea for our first event. We should show off our cars at a car show. Canada Day was coming up, we decided because little else was going on Downtown we should just show up and park our cars in the plaza area of Centennial Park at 9:30 AM. To Ken and my surprise 38 cars showed up. 2 Corvettes a 38 Packard, 61 Chrysler New Yorker Stationwagon. 58 MGA, 67 Volvo P1800, 28 Model A and a 67 Chevrolet Camero were among them. At 10:30 Salt Spring Concert Band gathered and set up for a concert on the field near us. It was a 1 hr concert from 11 to 12. This was followed, to our surprise, by the Salt Spring Pipe Band coming down the street from Embe Bakery parading in a big cake on a pallet, carried by 4 of the Embe bakers. A cake cutting ceremony followed and the band dispersed. Lots of the public stayed behind and viewed the cars. We had many folks ask if this showing of cars was going to happen next year. It Did. In the meantime may we suggest you browse the Archives. |
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