CRESTVIEW — Preliminary calculations indicate that the Spanish Trail Cruisers car club's weekend Average Joe Car Show brought in about $2,500, event organizers said.
Proceeds, after show expenses, will benefit organizations such as Sharing and Caring, club member John Colby said.
As Pensacola oldies band The 13th Hourglass, fronted by lead vocalist Ashley Turner, a Crestview High School alumna, played favorites from the 1970s and '80s, folks strolled up and down the street on Saturday admiring the vehicles.
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From 1920s Model T Fords to 1960s and '70s muscle cars, there were more than 130 vehicles, including more than 100 entered for judging.
Ethan Gappy, 11, of Pace, asked car show regular J.T. Garrett, costumed as Barney Fife from "The Andy Griffith Show" for a photo in front of Garrett's 1960s Ford Galaxy 500 squad car.
When Ethan couldn't quite place the iconic TV character, his dad, John, joked, "Just because you had to ask I'm going to make you watch an episode" of the show.
Treasure from a barn
Jerry Bunyan exhibited his 1972 Fiat 500L sedan for the first time. The little white city runabout was in excellent condition, having been stored in a protective environment.
"My little brother found it in a barn in Spain and shipped it to my dad at Fort Bliss," Crestview resident Cheri Bunyan said, adding the car gets 50 miles per gallon of gas, and has a 5-gallon tank. "We can fill it up for 20 bucks," she said.
Jerry Bunyan said the car still had Italian coins in the coin holder, and original upholstery in near-mint condition.
Periodically during the popular burnout contest — in which a vehicle is chained to a wrecker truck and has several seconds to spin its wheels — the crowd, cars and Main Street itself vanished in clouds of gray smoke.
An Okaloosa County EMS ambulance added a new vehicle to Main Street when it responded after a small piece of rubber flew off a tire during the burnouts and struck a bystander's leg.
"He was standing quite a distance away," Colby said.
County EMTs treated the man for what onsite police officers described as a burn caused when debris stuck to the victim's leg.
This article originally appeared on Crestview News Bulletin: Sunshine on chrome: Average Joe Car Show nets $2,500 for local charities