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LAKE OSWEGO REVIEW
AUGUST 2013
4
Story by
Jillian Daley
| Photography by
Vern Uyetake
Passion for power
Collectors About Town
T
he shine on a summer show-
case of powerful machines with
gleaming chrome and shining
paint hasn’t dimmed since Vic
Keeler and John Baines got the Lake Os-
wego car show rolling fourteen years ago.
The Collector Car & Classic Boat Show,
with watercraft first making a splash in
2007, has grown from about 20 or 30 autos
at its debut to about 300 road vehicles and
more than 40 testaments to buoyancy last
year.
This year, for the first time, the Oswego
Heritage Council’s summer happening
also will boast model trains, bicycles and
pedal cars.
“It’s for the kids at heart,” said Oswego
Heritage Council Executive Director Jude
Graham.
The free Aug. 18 mechanical extrava-
ganza roars in at 10 a.m., speeding away at
3 p.m. Displays will be spread throughout
George Rogers Park, Foothill Park dock,
Millennium Plaza Park and Lake Oswego
Corporation docks. The arrival of the cars
kick-starts the day.
“To see 300 classic cars come down
Highway 43 is an amazing thing, and peo-
ple think it’s a parade,” Graham said.
“Nostalgia sometimes stirs at the sight of
an old, four-wheeled ride, such as a woman
remembering being whisked away on her
first date in a Corvette,” Graham said.
For more information, call Heritage
House Executive Director Jude Graham at
503-635-6373 or visit oswegoheritage.org.
John Amond
is a self-employed tech-
nology consultant who worked at IBM
for 15 years. The 73-year-old is married
to Jude Graham and is a father to three
children.
A Lake Oswego resident since 1985,
Amond will be entering the car show for
the fifth year. He is showing his metallic
blue 1965 Corvette Stingray convertible,
which he bought new and for which he
still has the manual. The smooth ride,
now with 415,000 miles on it, sports a V8
engine and “goes real fast” despite its 48
years. The fastest Amond has gotten the
car to is 145 mph — but he hasn’t tested
the car’s speed to that extent in years.
The Corvette bears six taillights in
honor of rock duo Jan and Dean classic,
“Dead Man’s Curve,” a 1964 hit tune that
includes the line: “And all the Jag could
see were my six tail lights.”
What is it about classic cars that you
find so captivating?
I got to be classic
with my car!
When did showing classic cars devel-
op into a passion for you?
It is driving my
car that is the fun part. I have kept it in
great condition from day one. I don’t have
the car as a collector; I have it as a part
of my life. Showing the car has become
a pleasing offshoot, but as you can tell
from the mileage, this car has not been
a garage queen.
Do you do all of the work on the
car yourself, or do you take it to a pro-
fessional for detailing and other work?
It is a mixed bag. I have had every bolt
and seal of this car out on the garage floor
myself. Now, as I have become more clas-
sic, I trust my jewel to Vic Keeler. Vic ap-
preciates the car as much as I do and takes
better care of it than I do.
How does it feel to display your ’65
Corvette at a car show?
It feels good to sit
back, look at this beautiful machine and
appreciate that it cannot talk about where
it has been.
What’s it like to see a collection of
about 300 classic cars gleaming in the
sun?
I really admire the people that have
built, rebuilt, maintained and cared for
the beauty in their custody. They all in-
vest from their daily lives to preserve an
important part of our past. All I did to get
my beautiful car was buy it and hang on
for a glorious ride. The owners of the oth-
er cars have invested a great deal of time,
money, care and affection to rebuild, re-
store or maintain their prizes.
What’s your favorite area to drive
your gorgeous car?
Highway 1 all up and
down the west coast.
Classic Boat Show Chairwoman
Kris-
ten Winn
is a retired human resources
director for the Lake Oswego School Dis-
trict. Winn, 59, will bring her three, re-
stored gems to the boat show: Sentimen-
tal Journey, a 1955 Century Coronado;
Decked Out, a 1957 Chris Craft Deluxe
Runabout and G Whiz, a 1959 Glasspar
G3.
The Lake Oswego High School gradu-
ate and her husband, Dick, moved to Lake
Oswego in 1990. The couple has done
much of the repair work on their three
babies with guidance from professional
restorers.
What is it about classic boats that you
find so captivating?
It is rewarding to re-
store and use classic boats from the past.
The mahogany is beautiful, the chrome
shines, the engines roar and the owners
have a lot of fun showing and using their
boats.
What’s it like to see a collection of
more than 40 boats gleaming in the
sun?
It takes your breath away. They are
such beautiful boats and it is amazing to
see them in the water at the show.
What is one thing most people don’t
know about boat shows?
That it takes
a year to prepare for each Car and Boat
Show. John Baines, Vic Keeler, Jude Gra-
ham, the Car/Boat Show Committee, Jeff
Ward of the Lake Oswego Corporation
and the Board of Directors of both the
Oswego Heritage Council and the Colum-
bia Willamette Chapter of the Antique
and Classic Boat Society spend hours and
hours making sure that this annual event
is one that Lake Oswego can be proud of.
What are some myths about clas-
sic boats that you’d like to debunk?
That
John Amond will show his 1965 Corvette Stingray, which he bought new. It bears six tail lights in honor of
the Jan and Dean classic, “Dead Man’s Curve.”
John Amond doesn’t own his ‘65 Corvette because it’s a collector car; for him the car is part of his life.
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Lake Oswego car and boat collectors ready their polishing cloths for this year’s event