Burbank- The 11^th Annual Kiwanis Kids For Fun Car show was held April 25^th, 2010 in Johnny Carson Park. The park grounds were covered row after row with almost four hundred cars in attendance. All proceeds benefitted local children’s charities in the valley. Participants and spectators were treated to a pancake breakfast, live music, raffles, and numerous vendor booths. SoCal Challengers were awarded the Group Participation Trophy and newest Member John H was given 2^nd place in his class. A total of sixteen SCC Members attended this event taking up an entire row in the show.

I arrived early at the meeting place for this event. Dave had scheduled the street on Riverside Drive as our place to meet and I was there first. My wife and I sat there, and sat there. The street said no parking at any time too so I was looking around constantly hoping to not get shooed away by Johnny the parking control psycho. We sat there some more. Nobody…. Crickets. Just for kicks I typed in the directions for the show. My nav said it was seven miles away. I thought to myself, ”Dave would never have a meeting place that far away from a show.” I re-checked my directions. Hmm, seems I had missed one little letter when I inputted the address. That little letter “W” in front of Riverside Drive, West Riverside Drive that is. I was on Riverside Drive. We were off to the right address. I was happy to see that we already had a good crowd there on the street.

G1 showed up in his work gear and his truck as a gag. I had talked with Jeff about him zip-tying his Challenger fascia to the front of his pickup and entering his truck that way. THAT would have been classic. It was good fun and lightened up the early morning. “B” showed up soon after with his Challenger. Dave gave the pre-meeting. I mentioned too that it was Dan’s B-Day. Heather and I had got him some gifts we would give him later. We only had to go around the corner to get in….not seven miles.

The first fun was the driveway into the park. It was definitely not made for anything less than monster truck ground clearance. Dan scraped, I scraped going out, I heard scrapes all morning from other cars. Scrape, scrape, scrape. Happily the grass was kinder to our cars and we lined up in a reserved area that Tony had set aside for us. It was a sight to see that we took up an entire row at this show. Impressive! We all enjoyed the pancake breakfast too…..Dave was right. The pancakes kicked butt.

This show had some really impressive cars. There was a 1973 Plum Crazy Dodge Challenger that was immaculate. That car ended up winning a trophy later. Also, the Chrysler 300 from the Cops For Tots Show was there too. Beautiful car. We met John that morning at the meeting place. I was excited to see his Plum Crazy Challenger. He had put in the white leather interior with purple lettering. I honestly didn’t think I would like it after seeing it in the catalogue but in person it looks fantastic! John ended up joining us that day. He also won an award too. Not bad for his first day as an SCC Member. I also enjoyed the 1936 Buick Roadmaster. Black and super clean. We gave Dan his gifts and I resumed my wars with Chris’ kids. The fun continues…

Thanks to Tony Wade for inviting us to his show and awarding us the Group Participation Trophy, even if he did give it to the SoCal Chargers dot com club. We love it! Thanks too to Dave for bringing this show to our attention. He’s gone to this show for years and we can see why.  Next year Tony let us know we’ll have our own class! Can’t wait!