Atlantic Nationals show 'extraordinary': Texas fan
Published Wednesday July 8th, 2009
Mothers Wax rep says he comes for work but visit is '100 per cent fun'
It's a long haul from Lindale, Texas, to Moncton but Cliff Waller has done it every summer for the past eight years.
Cliff makes the 3,634-kilometre (2,253-mile) trek to Moncton by plane each year just to come to the Atlantic Nationals car show, which runs this week from Thursday to Sunday.
He works for Mothers Wax, one of the major sponsors of the annual car show, but his love of antique cars makes the trip 100 per cent fun. Cliff says the Atlantic Nationals is unlike any other event he's ever been to.
"They have such a great cross-section of people coming from all over Canada and the U.S," he says. "It's an event with so many different venues, like the dance and the drive-in movie and the cruise day. The whole event is just extraordinary and you don't see these types of events going on across North America right now."
Cliff says the event is much more than just a car show: it's a social gathering event for car enthusiasts across North America. It's a chance for car lovers to show off their prized wheels and take a look at fellow enthusiasts' cars.
Cliff values the warmth and energy of the Atlantic Nationals so much, his company has increased its sponsorship every year.
While he enjoys the entire show, Cliff admits the Friday night downtown gathering is the part he looks forward to the most.
"It's really neat that they close the city down and bring all the cars into downtown Moncton," he says.
Cliff began collecting old cars in high school, and has gone through 15 to 18 cars since then. He's now the proud owner of a 1968 Dodge Dart and a 1960 Falcon Wagon.
"It's a passion," he says. "I grew up the '60s in the industry. My father was in the business, I ended up in the business. It's just a passion of mine."
Cliff says it's the look of the old cars they sets them apart from new cars.
"I just think they have character; the body lines, the different styles just make them so much more fun to look at."
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Much like the car shows we have attended (entered as a participant) there are always various people who always get the "longest drive award" because they vacation here every year. They do the tour in NB, NS and ME taking a trunk full of trophies home.
The show is an amazing show with some amazing works of art. Alot of people put countless hours of mods and refirbushment into them for others to injest visually. some have trailer queens which are not driven in rain, are worked on by professionals or purchased from major Barrett and Jackson style auctions - to be toted as their work of art. In any event they are all pieces of history which people like Cliff here on work detail reflect upon thereby bringing perhaps new cars and ideas to the event.