27th Annual Show & Shine 2009
Saturday June 6 & Sunday June 7
2009 Show Photos
Our 27th Annual Show & Shine at the Truro
Raceway was another success - visit
Events page for
photos...
On-line Newsletter!
Save a tree and read the on-line version of
our regular newsletter.
September 2008
See archives below, most files in MS Word
format.
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History -About Us...
The first meeting of Golden Age Automobile Club was held on April
7,1974 with 35 people in attendance. Today we have 
63 members and their spouses, making us one of the largest and
oldest antique car clubs in Nova Scotia.
Presentation to club founders: L-R Alex Varner, Burt
Filmore, Cecil Parker, Marshall Hutt, Lawson Green. Missing
from photo: Wendell Brown, Rick Cox, John Davis, Bill Harvey, Charlie
Hughes, Freeman Nieforth
Truro Parade - late '70's.
Founding member Marshall Hutt in his 1924 Star and yes, that's Colonel
Saunders in the back seat!
GAAC offers a place for antique car collectors and restorers to share
their experiences, run a large annual Car Show, and provide many social
opportunities to meet and mix with fellow enthusiasts. We also
support the community through various
events
and charitable donations.
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Club Activities
 | Monthly Meetings |
| Parade Float Entries |
| Annual Summer Picnic |
| Annual "Show & Shine" |
| Monthly 50/50 Cash Draws |
| December Christmas Dance |
| Year-long Charitable Fundraising |
| Regular Newsletter with Classified Ads (now on-line!) |
GAAC meets the 2nd Sunday of each
month at Truro Police Services Building, Prince Street in the Community
Room at 7:00 pm.
Click here for a printable Member Application Form
2009 Executive Committee
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President
- Rick Hilliard
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president@goldenageautoclub.com |
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| Vice
President - Pinkey Shipley |
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Treasurer -
Brent Nelson |
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Secretary -
Arlene Oatway
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secretary@goldenageautoclub.com |
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| Wayne
MacDonald, Director |
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Jeff
Goulding, Director |
| Lloyd
Shipley, Director |
| Burt
Fulmore, Director |
| Arnold
Neil, Director |
| Ron
Stephens, Director |
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Nominating
Committee
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Margaret Shipley & Ron Stephens |
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Newsletter
Editor
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Doug
Simms |
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 Our
Annual Car Show
The first annual show was held inside at the Truro Stadium in 1975,
where they continued yearly until they outgrew the stadium by the early
80's. By this time the numbers had reached approximately 40 cars.
The club then decided to try their first outdoor Show & Shine, which was
held in 1983 at the Nova Scotia Agriculture College in Bible Hill. This
show paved the way to our successful outdoor shows we now have today.
This first outdoor event was held in conjunction with the Big
Brothers/Big Sisters as we donated the proceeds to them. We once again
increased our numbers and with our second year at the College reaching
approximately 100 cars, we had to move to yet another location to handle
these large groups. In 1985 we moved to the 
Scotia Pine Camp Ground but by 1993 we had approached 500 cars and thus
had to look once again for another facility that could handle our steady
growth! 1994 was the first year for our present day location at
the Debert Airport where we have had in excess of 1000 show cars, along
with over 100 cars for sale in our Car Corral. In 2005 we moved to
the Truro Exhibition Grounds, running for two years in conjunction with
the Truro Tulip Festival on the May Victoria Day long weekend.
Visit our Events page for more on this year's
show on new dates! |
