Collegio Online

Issue date: 4/24/08 Section: Campus Life

Media Credit: Aaron Anders Visitors to the SAE car show stand in awe while looking at a motor decked out in chrome at the eighth annual car show, hosted by the Society of Automotive Engineers, held near Gorilla Village on Saturday, April 19. Fifty-five cars were on display at the event, which was broadcast on radio station Rock Revolution 99.1.

The Society of Automotive Engineers drew around 200 car nuts for its eighth annual car show, held Saturday, April 19.

Deron Lundgren, junior in automotive technology and SAE president, says cars from as far away as Wichita drove to the event to show off their rides.

"There was a '60s convertible Corvette that was real nice," Lundgren said. "There was also a real nice blue Charger that was there. I wish I had more time to go look, but I was running around like crazy."

Lundgren says 55 cars were on display in the show.
Brady Turley, junior in automotive service technology, says that while the number of cars in competition wasn't quite what he'd hoped for, the show was still worthwhile.

"We were hoping for 100 (cars), if not more, but we always set our hopes up high," Turley said.
Turley says that this year's car show was the first to be held at Gorilla Village rather than the Kansas Technology Center.

"It seems like we had everything we needed," Turley said. "We didn't realize there was a fishing tournament there. People kept walking up to us and asking if that's where they parked their cars for the fishing tournament."

Turley says the few SAE members who put on the show did a good job, considering it was their first time out.

"We were all pretty much new to this because the people who did it before didn't come back," Turley said. "This was our first year doing it ourselves without any help."

Lundgren says he agrees.
"All in all we had a good show of cars and the weather turned out to be good, too."
Trophies were handed out to the top three cars in each of five classes: late-model, original, classic, hot rod, tuner and muscle car.

The trophies were handmade creations cobbled together from pistons and engine parts, painted by auto tech instructors John Thompson and Matthew Keller and affixed to wood bases courtesy of the wood technology department.

In addition, three special trophies were given out for Best in Show, Best Paint and Best Engine.
The show, which was broadcast on 99.1, was sponsored by Auto Zone, O'Reilly's Auto Parts, Sharpe's Auto Body, Dustin's Auto Detail, Girard Auto Supply, Wiseman's and Spicer-Adams Welding Supply.

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