Doug Olson's classic, spared from the flames, is featured in Sunday's Cruisin' Classics Show and Shine
Doug Olson got the surprise of his life a couple of months ago when he stopped at the Eastway ESSO gas station in his immaculately restored 1967 Chevy shortbox stepside pickup.As fate would have it that April 28 day, Austin Campbell was there at the same time, fuelling up his vehicle, and saw what was happening. He quickly grabbed the fire extinguisher hanging next to the gas pump and used to extinguish the flames.
Olson, who spent hundreds of hours with his garage buddies bringing that truck back from gutted teardown stage to showroom quality, said if not for their quick thinking, he would not have the truck anymore.The damage was limited to a couple of vacuum lines and a few hoses, electrical wires, distributor but it could have been a complete writeoff.
Last year’s Show and Shine at Lheidli’ T’enneh Memorial Park was a rainy day., which knocked the car count down to a couple hundred. But Sunday’s forecast is calling for suny skies and a high of 17 C and that should bring out the usual turnout of between 300 and 400 vehicles and thousands of spectators for the show, which runs from 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Olson likes to build his own cars and trucks and has seven classics that he’s done most of the work on, including a 1970 Plymouth Barracuda and a 1969 Camaro convertible, the same car he drove he was a teenager. He also has a 1969 Chev K-10 4X4 and is working on a ’56 Plymouth pickup that’s not yet driveable.On Sunday, Olson’s dad plans to show up in a ’71 Ford 4X4 and his son also wants to make it to be at the park to display a ’73 Pontiac LeMans.
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