Like Father Like Son; Father’s Day at Supercar Sunday Car show
Created by: Dalton Richards- Chief Editor
Like Father Like Son
Father’s Day at Supercar Sunday
When you are a Dad who has an automotive passion, you make sure to install that passion into your children. No ifs, ands, or buts, your kid is going to know what daddy drives. It begins with car washes, kids love car washes. Then you get them curious about what you are doing under the big car instead of playing with them. Eventually, if you’ve played your cards right you might just hear the magical words, “what’s this?” accompanied by a big fingerprint on whatever your little monster just put his or her dirty fingers all over. But you don’t care, it’s the best day of your life (or at least up there), because your legacy just asked you about a car part. Success! Happy Father’s Day!
Father’s Day in Los Angeles began cold and overcast with just a hint of mist in the air. Normally these conditions result in a failure to launch for a car show. What is the point of all that polish and cleaning if your going to get waterspots on your show car. With low expectations I arrived at the Pierce Community College parking lot at 8 AM. The crowd had already reached it’s zenith with more cars leaving than coming in. I will never understand the prevailing tendency of the car show enthusiast to arrive before the break of dawn in the pursuit of the perfect parking spot. Standing with one or two other diehards shivering with a cup of coffee as the only source of heat. The perfect plan to nab the perfect spot inevitably foiled when the rest of the cars show up only to park two lanes away.
Supercar Sunday, as its known to the Los Angeles car community is a uniquely open car event. In contrast to the events title, all makes and models are welcome in any condition. Any type of car is welcome to join the spectacle. Once a month, the event is marquee specific. Depending on the specific theme hundreds of Lamborghinis or Ferraris or muscle cars will flood in to be put on center stage. On clear sunny days there can be over 500 cars on display. Even on the brand specific days however, nobody is told they cannot participate.For this Fathers Day, I’d have estimated there were around 125 cars in the lot. Every type of model was on display from McLarens to World War Two era Jeeps. From homebuilt electric cars to million dollar prestine classics. Everyone was equal in attention. A herd of Mustangs parked together in formation squared off against the precise line up of German 911 excellence. Every Porsche parked equally apart and perfectly matched. A pack of Dodge Challengers gathered menacingly in the corner along side Rolls Royces in all their opulence.
What made this meet special was not the beautiful cars on display, but the abundance of children and families joining together to share in a common interest. I had the pleasure of speaking with a gentleman named Nick, who told me about how he and his father both brought their Chevy Chevelles out without coordinating. You can tell the apple didn’t fall far from the tree. Upon seeing one another, they gleefully parked along side and the grandkids hopped out of the black car to hug their grandfather in the red. Three generations together.
By 10 AM the majority of the cars had left the lot. No trash is left behind. Every Sunday you can find these kindred sprits banding together in appreciation of their mutual interests. While there may be some gentle ribbing, the community doesn’t look down upon one another. No one is too good for another. It is a refreshing sight to see.
