Coming Saturday, June 21
A teaser from the 2024 show
By Megan McKinney
We are once again thinking ahead to the Lake Bluff History Museum Auto Show, which is scheduled this year for Saturday, June 21. According to Museum spokesperson Adrienne Fawcett, “Typically this event transforms charming downtown Lake Bluff into a classy museum of art — car art — because the cars are like works of art! Corvettes, Mustangs, Cobras and Birds, Packards, Woodies, Jaguars, Rolls … and GTOs, Chevys, Buicks, Lincolns. The amount of time and energy and absolute love that the owners put into their cars is impressive.”
Photo credit: Marcus Norman
“Downtown Lake Bluff transformed into a classy museum of art — car art.”
Again from Ms. Fawcett, “The Museum and committee members involved in this show all are classic car aficionados themselves and have impressive car knowledge of classic and antique cars and their own collections.”
Another gorgeous automobile from the 2024 Show.
Lake Bluff History Museum Auto Show will be held from 2:00 to 5:00 pm, next Saturday afternoon, beginning at Lake Bluff History Museum, 127 E. Scranton Avenue.
There is no charge to register a car or to attend the Auto Show, and the event is family friendly. Free parking is available.
We especially love this hood ornament from last year’s show.
Photo credit: Marcus Norman
John Gutt and his prize-winning automobile at the 2019 Lake Bluff History Museum Auto Show.
In going through Classic Chicago Magazine coverage of previous Lake Bluff History Museum Auto Shows, we found this material on John Gutt, who won the Best in Show award for his 1955 Chevy Nomad at the 2019 Auto Show. After buying the handsome car on Ebay a few years before, he remembered it as “a fun drive” but with some issues. “Things leaked and made noise, and once in a while it would just stop running.” It was well worth a resto-mod—the restoration of a classic car in which the original esthetics are retained while making significant high-performance upgrades. In this case, improvements included ”better brakes, a more reliable engine, and better-fitting body panels”. In addition, the Nomad’s evocative mid-century colors, Regal Turquoise/ India Ivory, were restored. “We ended up with a late-model car,” says Gutt, “with the classic looks of an older car.”
Cover Image: Marcus Norman
