Vintage Wheels and Wings

The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, in Mount Hope, Ontario, is one of my favorite places in Canada. They have an impressive collection of vintage warbids, and one of the only two flyworthy WWII Avro Lancaster in the world.

Every summer the museum hosts the Vintage Wheels and Wings, an amazing show where the visitors can cherish a gathering of classic cars and airplanes at the same time.

The 2023 edition of the show happened on Sunday, July 16th and the TCM crew (my wife Estela and I) went there to check it out.

The meeting starts at the parking lot, with some interesting cars that didn’t make the pre registration, like this 1973 Brazilian built Chevrolet Opala. The car belongs to Bruno “Chumbinho”, a Brazilian gearhead that moved to Canada in 2019 and the idea of leaving his classic Chevy behind never crossed his mind. You can check more about the car in his You Tube channel: https://youtube.com/@OpalaInCanada

Another cool car at the parking lot was this super wicked Buick GN.

It was an overcast Sunday morning, with chance of rain but fortunately it didn’t happen. We took quite a few pictures and also made a short video. I hope you will enjoy it.

1968 Pro Touring Camaro

With the prices of a vintage VW Bus reaching the Stratosphere now a days, some people are improvising. This guy converted a Japanese micro van (I couldn’t figured out the brand) into a VW Bus look alike. The job was well done and the tiny van looks awfully cute.

FIAT Bertone X1/9
Me: “I am gonna wait for the people to leave to Cobra alone, so I can take a good pic”. Estela: “Good luck with that!”

A Coyote powered 1972 Torino
1967 Shelby Mustang
1967 Thunderbird
The next generation of gearheads.
Willys was a bit pretentious when they named the Jeep engine.
1964 Mercury Marauder
The interior of the Mercury Marauder.
Canadair CF-5
McDonell CF-101 Voodoo
The cabin of a de Havilland DHC-5 Buffalo
1967 Austin-Healey 3000
That little fella on the left was genuinely excited with the Oldsmobile. He went “wooooow when he saw the car.

Published by Rubens Junior

Passionate about classic cars, motorcycles, airplanes, and watches.

9 thoughts on “Vintage Wheels and Wings

  1. Looks like an fun show. My favorite in the video would be the blown Gremlin. Love the sound of a blown big block with a lumpy camshaft.

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