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Thousands flock To hoT niTe in ciTY

There’s always something new to see at Hot Nite in the City, and this year will be no different.

Once again, for the 17th year running, 13 city blocks will close down for the event, which will see nearly 400 vehicles parked side by side along Victoria Street and approximately 25,000 people taking in the show.

Hot Nite has long been known by car lovers as the place to be, as well as the place to show off, a great vehicle. While many people return year after year, orga-nizer Ron Popove, who will be entering his 1966 Chevy Nova II in the show, says he’s always excited to see the new recruits roll into town on Friday night.

“We have repeats, yes, but we’re picking up a lot of new vehicles out of Portland, Ore., Northern B.C., Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland. We’re still going to have the regulars, but we’ll also have a lot of new stuff coming in.”

This year offers up much of the same entertainment featured during previous events. Also back again this year is the Mayor’s Award, whereby Kamloops May-

or Peter Milobar will select his favourite vehicle of the show.

Kamloops Royalty — Miss Kamloops Paris Sanesh and her princesses Jenelle Carto and Casey Helgason — will hand out the trophies to the lucky winners.

While car enthusiasts still get their fair share of vintage vehicles, organizers have been tapping into the sport compact mar-ket, getting a new generation of car con-noisseurs to come out to the event.

“It’s just a matter of getting them to come out and convincing them this is a great place to show their vehicles,” says Popove.

While Kamloops’ Hot Nite is not the big-gest show in the province, it is the oldest for a downtown show-n-shine.

Both the number of spectators as well as the easy distance from Alberta makes Hot Nite a success, year after year.

“It’s a weekend destination. I think that’s the nice thing about doing a Saturday car show. People don’t mind driving down on a Friday night to get somewhere, so long as they can play all day Saturday.”

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w 10 - 10:45 a.m. Matt Stanley and the Decoys

w 11 - 11:45 a.m. Black Dog Blue

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w 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Sonic Sound and Light Inc.

A big thanks to Kamloops Interior Display Services Ltd. for donating both stages!

The Thompson Valley Radio Controlled Race Club will showcase their racing expertise during the Show-n-Shine. Watch them race their RC vehicles at the end of the 500-block Victoria Street.

Elvis impersonator Stuart MacLeod was part of the entertainment during the 2010 Hot Nite in the City.

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THERE’S MUSIC IN THE AIR

Once a year, on the first Friday and Saturday of August, 13 city blocks in downtown Kamloops

are closed off to allow street rods, cus-toms, American muscle, sport-compact, British, European, collector, vintage, bikes, race competition vehicles and highway tractors, to line the streets for the annual Hot Nite In The City Show-n-Shine.

Friday, Aug. 5w 3 - 6:30 p.m. — Registration for the 8th annual A&W-hosted Hot Nite In The City Poker-Run at the Plaza Heritage Hotel (located on the corner of Victoria Street and Fourth Avenue). As soon as you have com-pleted your registration for the Friday HNITC Poker-Run and Saturday HNITC Show-n-Shine, you can begin your Poker-Run, start-ing from the Plaza Heritage Hotel.

w 3 - 8:30 p.m. — Running of the 8th annual A&W-hosted HNITC Poker-Run. HNITC thanks the Valleyview Overlanders Lions Club for providing volunteers for this event.

w 5 - 9 p.m. — The last stop of the HNITC Poker-Run will be the Lansdowne Village A&W with secured parking for Show-n-Shine participants, great A&W food, fun activities for the whole family and prizes. This is a family-oriented HNITC, so make plans to stay until the 9 p.m. closing.

SATURDAy, Aug. 6w A&W-hosted HNITC breakfast — The six Kamloops A&W restaurants (Aberdeen Mall, Columbia Place, Halston, Lansdowne Village, North Shore and Valleyview), are treating Hot Nite In The City entrants and their riders to an A&W HNITC breakfast special on Saturday and Sunday until 11 a.m. For $3.50 plus HST (per person, per meal), you get two eggs, three bacon or one sausage patty and two toast.

w 7 - 10 a.m. — Plaza Heritage Hotel special HNITC breakfast buffet. w 8 - 9:30 a.m. — Registration for the 17th

annual HNITC Show-n-Shine.

w 8 - 9:45 a.m. — Parking of all HNITC Show-n-Shine vehicles. w 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. — The 17th annual HNITC Show-n-Shine. HNITC thanks the Royal Canadian Sea Cadets (Kamloops) for providing volunteers for this show-n-shine.

Spectators: As you are admiring the vehicles, please remember to keep belt buckles, rings, baby carriages, bikes and any other sharp objects away from the cars. Be aware of the amount of sweat and money that goes into each vehicle and how important they are to the owners!

w 5 - 6 p.m. — Awarding of the HNITC trophies and awards at the Main Stage:

n HNITC Poker-Run prizes for the top three poker-hands. (A total of $3,000 in prizes will be won by the top 28 poker hands from Friday’s A&W-hosted HNITC Poker-Run; only the top three prizes will be awarded on Saturday.)n HNITC Show-n-Shine best/top trophies. In addition to winning a trophy, winners of the following awards will be offered the opportunity to have their vehicle’s picture on next year’s 2012 Hot Nite In The City T-Shirt: Best in Show, Top Ford, Top GM, Top Import, Top Mopar, Top Highway Tractorn HNITC Show-n-Shine Specialty trophiesn HNITC Show-n-Shine Perpetual trophiesn HNITC Show-n-Shine Class trophies

w 7 p.m. — Music in the Park: Riverside Park Bandshell

SUNDAY, Aug. 7w 5 - 11 a.m. — A&W-hosted HNITC break-fast

w 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. — Make time to take the whole family to the fabulous B.C. Wildlife Park!

w 7 p.m. — Music in the Park: Riverside Park Bandshell

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Old Red is a 1954 Chevrolet C10 pickup. The truck came to Smith Chevrolet on a trade and was in dire need of restoration. “We went right back to stock, including the paint color,” says Marnie Mears from Smith Chev. “We are very proud of our

team in the body shop who did the majority of the restorations.” Old Red takes part in the Kamloops Santa parade every year and has been known to take the odd old timer out for a drive.

“Lucille” is a 1961 Cadillac Eldorado convertible with a full leather interior. Smith Chevrolet rents Lucille for weddings, anniversaries and other special events. For the $200 rental, Smith Chev pays the driver $50, pays the $50 license permit and

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During Hot Nite, take a look inside the B.C Sheriff Services Prisoner Transport vehicle, a 2009 HINO (model 258). This transport truck can hold up to 22 prison-ers, and there are six compartments (cells) that are audio and video recorded.

B.C. Sheriff staff will be on hand to answer questions.

This is the latest edition to the Western Canadian Orica Mobile fleet known throughout the mining industry as a Mobile Manufacturing Unit or MMU for short. In excess of 50 similar units are currently in operation on various mine sites in B.C.

and Alberta. These MMUs are capable of delivering up to 20,000 kgs of bulk and blended explosive products at rates of up to 500 kgs per minute for wet hole products and 750 kgs per minute for dry hole products. This vehicle is powered by a 540 HP Mercedes Benz die-sel engine with an Eaton Fuller transmission.



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Mihalcheon. This was the 25th anniver-sary of Dodge, and there were about 23,000 produced. A Hemi 354 powers

the car and an air-bag suspension lets it sit in the grass. All modifications were done by the owner. This car is pictured in the 2011 worldwide Snap-On Tool calen-der. Thanks to family as well as Wes at Acumen Machine Shop.


This 1992 Nissan 240sx, 2.0 L SR20DET is owned by Shawn Zacharias. The car originally came

with a 2.4L naturally aspirated four-cylin-der engine which was removed and replaced in 2007 with the current smaller (yet much more powerful) two-liter turbo engine at Enhanced Autoworks. Enhanced also added an aftermarket Microtech ECU for engine management, and fabricated custom intercooler piping for the front

mount intercooler. Since the initial build at Enhanced, the car has undergone a few other changes, such as replacing the stock turbo with a Holset HX35, built by PDR Diesel for a 5.9 Cummins, boosting the intake pressure from the stock 10 psi to 36 psi. Zacharias prefers the sleeper look, so only a few exterior details were slightly modified to clean up the lines when the Espresso Pearl and Java Black Pearl paint was added two years ago.


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KAVIPSChris Kempling was inspired by last year’s Hot Nite in the City to get into the classic car scene. His crite-

ria was an old luxury car with air condition-ing, as he and his wife wanted a summer-time cruiser for visiting wineries. He found this 1976 Lincoln Continental Mark IV for just $2,600 and in fairly good shape. It had 120,000 original miles on the big 460 CID V8 (7.5 litre). Features include a whopping four cigarette lighters, AM-FM eight-track

stereo with power telescoping aerial (to deter vandals), automatic headlight dim-mers, leather upholstery, power seats, four-wheel disk brakes, vinyl landau roof and polished aluminum rims. The new pur-chase price in 1976 was $11,000, one of the most expensive domestic cars on the market. It’s over 19 feet long and weighs an astounding 5,230 pounds. It rides like a sofa on wheels, and oozes down boule-vards with a “Hey, look at me” insouciance.

Darry l F i l ia t raul t bought th is Mustang new in 2006 and began adding parts immediately. He tried to

get rid of the chrome, but ended up with some anyway. Notice the hood scoop and quarter window vents from Classic Design

Concepts. The front bumper and rear valance is from Street Scene. The air intake is from Western Motor Sports in Calgary. The Boss wheels and tires are from K-Tire in Calgary. Ghost stripes were painted in the spring.



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Ron Scott’s 1968 Dodge Dart GTS is painted Plum Crazy Purple, hence its name, Barney. Barney is not a clone

and features 340 c.i V-8 with X heads, 400 hp, A-833 four-speed tranny, 83/4 rear diff

erentials with 3.23 posi. Engine modifica-tions include an Edlebrock intake, Edlebrock 750 carb, comp cam, Milodon deep pan, Hedman Jet coated headers and K&N air fil-ters. Scott and Barney reside in Abbotsford.


Randy Rodman’s 1965 Chevy Corvair is his first classic car. He purchased it in May 2003 in Calgary

from the second owner who only drove it three months. It sat parked for three years. It is a Monza model with 110 hp six-cylinder air-cooled engine — the only air-

cooled rear engine car Chevy ever made. The car is all original with 60,000 miles. “Thanks to my wife, I was able to add this toy to my garage,” he says. Rodman and his wife were at Hot Nite with the Corvair club in 2007 and his car is on the website. “I’m very proud of my ride,” he says.


This big rig belonging to Daryl Wear came out a winner in the owner/operator category at the recent B.C.

Big Rig Truck Show in Chilliwack. He placed first in the Best truck and trailer combo,

second in Best paint and second in Best lights. The bike is steel, weights 10,000 lbs.and took Kenny Glasco of Lytton 5,000 hours to build. It stands 12 feet tall when on the ground.

Gregg Robertson bought his 1966 Chevy II SS about five years ago out of Baltimore, MD. He says he

bought it as a retirement toy. He’d had one back in his early 20s and always had a

soft spot for Chevy II ’s. The car was already redone when he bought it, so he has only made some minor changes. The car is a real SS not a clone. It is a 327, four-speed.


This 1935 Ford two-door slant backis owned by Gord and Marlene Evans of Kamloops. The paint is

Tangerine Pearl, motor is a supercharged 350ci small block Chev, tranny is 700 R-4 and the rear is a nine-inch Ford posi.

Rob Sostad’s 1957 Pontiac two-door hardtop was purchased in the early ’90s from a neighbour. Since

then, it has had all its major components rebuilt or replaced. The latest was a new coat of paint. Over the years, it has been to most of the Interior’s car events. “When I’m driving around, there is always a wave or a thumbs up from other enthusiasts,” he

says. “You meet the friendliest people.” The car has been used for weddings and grad chauffeuring. Every so often, the orig-inal owner will see the car and ask Sostad if he is still looking after it. It was the car he and his wife used for their wedding when it was new. “Yes,” he tells them, “it’s still being looked after and is still a pleasure to drive.”


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Jim Vandenborn says he wasn’t actually looking to buy a Rumble Bee, but saw a Global News report

about a fellow in Surrey, late last year, who had received a bylaw ticket for adver-tising his Rumble Bee for sale on the street in front of his house. He decided to check it out. Vandenborn liked the vehicle but it didn’t come with leather interior, which was a must. He searched the Internet for about five months and finally came across a truck for sale by its original owner in Puyallup, WA. “It had only 12,700 miles and came with leather interior and was in truly mint condition,” he says. “I sealed the deal with the owner and drove

the vehic le back to Kamloops f rom Washington, and the truck now resides in my garage.” As a matter of interest, Dodge had originally intended to manufacture a limited edition run of 3,700 trucks in 2004 to interested buyers. It was so popular, they produced more than that, and in 2005, to the chagrin of those who bought in 2004, they ran off a “second swarm,” of about 5,000. “It is not known the exact number of Rumble Bees produced. They only came in yellow or black with the Rumble Bee stripes on the back of the r e a r q u a r t e r p a n e l s , ” h e s a y s . Vandenborn’s is No. 4785 of the second swarm. “If I’m driving it, it’s hard to miss!.”


Carl Vetter purchased his Buick Skylark in Las Vegas last July. He and his wife drove down with a trailer to

pick it up on one of the hottest days of the year. “Boy, was it fun to load on the trailer in 46 C,” he says. Over the winter, Vetter disas-sembled the front end, rebuilt the suspen-

sion and the 340 motor, installed a 200R4 overdrive transmission and had the air con-ditioning repaired. “The fellow I bought the car from was selling it for his father who had passed away. He told me his father had pur-chased it new in Tennessee and fondly called the car ‘Betty,’ which we now call her.”

Steve Oryschak bought his 1966 Mustang convertible about 10 years ago in Richmond. It is a true number

matching car. The car is a four-speed with a 289 CID. It also has a standard black interi-or and comes with factory air conditioning.


“ E v e t t e ” i s a 1 9 5 6 C o r v e t t e Roadster, built Sept. 7, 1956. Only 2,467 were built in 1956. Michael

Schreiner and Anthony Muzzillo purchased the car in late 2010. It was in serious need

of a major overhaul. The body shop at Smith Chevrolet and Dave’s Restoration rebuilt the car with numbers matching from the frame up. She has a 265 engine with 210 hp.

At left, Debra and Peter Allik-Petersenn check out Jim Beckett’s 1957 BMW Isetta two-seater complete with manual windshield wiper. Above, Carol Jeffreys and daughters Morgan and Brooke stand beside the pointy wheel decor of a customized 1988 Peterbilt tractor belonging to Craig Oliver. At right, Arlene Pasemko looks over David Ault’s 1956 Chev Belair.


Carolyn Obieglo purchased this 1964 Pontiac Parisienne convert-ible for $1,000 in 1974. The car

came stock with a 283 V8 and an auto-matic two-speed transmission. The car was eventually retired and spent years in barns, under tarps and in garages.

Obieglo and her husband rebuilt the car and it was completed in 2005. They drove 5,000 miles to Las Vegas and back that year to renew their vows. Obieglo now cruises solo, as her husband has since passed away. “He is still riding with me always,” she says.

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Fifteen years ago, when he was 18 years old, Brick Allaire would drive out of his way every day to admire a

particular 1986 SS Monte Carlo. After he purchased it, he drove it around Kamloops and made as many improvements as he could afford. When he was 23, with new paint, a lowered engine and a new trans-mission, the car looked good and it made an appearance that year at Hot Nite in the City. Sadly, later that summer, he loaned

the car to a former friend who took out the whole front end in an accident. The wreck sat in Kamloops for months until Allaire paid to have it trailered to his new home in Calgary. It took five years to find and buy all the parts, and about three years to rebuild. This spring it won its class in World of Wheels 2011. Prior to the World of Wheels, the Calgary Sun wrote a feature on it. Hot Nite “will be the first time the car has been home to Kamloops in nine years,” he says.

After years of searching newspa-pers, car shows and eBay, Kurt Bauert from Calgary finally found a

first-generation Camaro to call his own, almost in his own back yard. In July of 2007, he spotted an ad online for a 1968 Camaro RS in Balzac, Alta. just 30 minutes north of Calgary. Two unique features made ‘Blue’ stand out: factory A/C and a column shift. ‘Blue’ gets her moniker from the original paint colour — Grotto Blue — a colour that fewer than six per cent of 1968

model years wore. Originally a small block 327 with two-speed Powerglide, Blue has had a few enhancements since purchase. Bauert beefed-up the 350 with a four-speed 700R4 tranny, 3.73 Posi and front disc brakes, all of which have added to the cruising experience. Not a trailer-queen, Blue drives to car shows near and far, including the 40th Anniversary Yellowstone Rod Run last August in Montana and will be making its second appearance at the Hot Nite In The City show this year.

Les Little from McKenzie bought his 1954 Chev Bel Air two-door hard top in Kamloops in 1975. He is the sec-

ond owner. It was bought new in Prince George in 1954. The story goes that the owner, an elderly woman, hit a police car.The police took away her licence and she put the car up for sale. Little has done two or three makeovers, but was inspired in 1997 to do a complete off-the-frame resto-ration. The car didn’t see plates again until 2007. It was completely sanded down to bare metal, rewired, and has a rebuilt motor

and transmission. The bucket seats and console are from an ’85 Camero. The back seat and door panels were reupholstered in his 10-year rebuild. In 2009, the Chevy was painted Bordon Blue, a purpley-blue colour. The engine is a small-block Chevy 350 hp with a four-speed manual transmission. The rear end is a 1956 Chevy 355 gear ratio. Since 2007, it has been shown extensively in the north. Rebuilding the Chevy has been instrumental in Little and his wife Karen developing their own Show & Shine in Mackenzie, the third Saturday in July.

Ron Moropito is pictured with his 1980 Suzuki GS-1000G (shaf t

drive). It is on a “collector plate” and is an u n r e s t o r e d o r i g i n a l . T h e p e r i o d - correct saddlebags were installed at the time of purchase by the original owner. The bike has about 170,000 kms in total (the

original speedometer was replaced with a used one at 147,000 kms). The engine was “refreshed” at 110,000 kms. Purchased in Edmonton, Moropito has owned the bike since 1993. “These engines were factory rated at about 90 hp,” he says. “On long trips I consistently get from 45 to 50 mpg.”



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for two years stock, he decided to change it to a rod. It now has a completely new chas-sis with a 385/350 Chev motor, auto trans,

independent front suspension, leather inte-rior, quick-change rear-end and other mod-ifications. “I have what I wanted,” he says. “I know I have made the right decision.” Mann lives in Victoria and has taken trips in the Tudor to San Francisco, Seattle, Puyallup, Kelowna, Spokane and many other cities.

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Pete Stack’s entry into Hot Nite is one of the 442 Canadian-made GTO Judges (WT1 Option) made

in Oshawa, Ont. Only 288 of them stayed in Canada, the rest were exported. It is one of 1,003 hard-top Judges with the automatic M40 transmission. It was built on Dec . 15 , 1969. In the v in o f the Canadian-made GTOs, where the “P” etc. should be, Stack says there is a “1” showing it was from the Oshawa plant. Canadian-made Judges can also be eas-ily identified by the “WT1” option stamped on all of the engine cowl plates located on the driver side in the engine compart-ment . Stack rebui l t the Ram Ai r I I I engine (RPO L74) with the help of a machinist friend. It is bored 30 over, with

TRW forged pistons and Rhodes lifters. “The cam is a special grind that my friend came up with and had ground for me. I cc’d the heads. The heads are ported by myself and I could not total the loving hours I have put into the No. 12 heads.” All the flashing in the lifter valley was die-grinded and deburred to a smooth finish so the oil would flow better and the whole assembly was balanced. “This Goat is all original other than I have changed the rear from a 3:90.1 to a 3:55.1, and I am using an HEI ignition.” Stack started the restoration in 1992 and finished it in late 1996, al though he admits he is “st i l l working on her.” He says the car does not like a trailer, snow or sleet, “but will never stop once in the direction pointed.”

John Vanin purchased his 1967 GTO, “The Goat,” more than 30 years ago in Spokane, WA.,for what

he considered at the time, the princely sum of $2,000. He bought it from a guy who loved the car, but had to choose between kids or car — “thankfully for me he made the right decision,” Vanin says. H e h a s s i n c e u s e d i n f o r m a t i o n researched from the protecto-plate to locate the original owner, who lives in Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho. “When we talked, he was reminded of his youth back to

when he originally purchased the car.” Vanin says he fell in love with the 1967 GTOs while still in high school and after an extensive search for an un-modified car, considered himself fortunate to find his dream ride in it’s original condition. The car has it’s original drive train, 400 cu-in. engine and four-speed transmission with a Hurst shifter. “I have always strived to keep the car as original as possible, while enjoying it as a safe, reliable vehicle that always gets lots of attention and admiration wherever we go,” he says.



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