With the weather promising to be cool and dry for the first time in three years for this event, I met Jeff McD at his business partners place in Elgin where we unloaded our  vehicles.  Jeff brought his '42 MB and I brought my '53 M38A1 and '39 Colson bicycle.  Madison H drove his '53 M37 in to the event and was waiting on us to arrive downtown.

Upon arrival at the newly restored train depot in downtown Elgin, we were staged just under the eve of the train station, off the parking lot surface.  I called it 'rock-star parking' since we were so close to the depot.  The theme of the event was "Elgin, a decade of war and peace" that was a tribute to the 1940's.  A short time later, the other vehicles for the car show began to appear.

The temps were a bit cool at first, but as the sun came up, everyone warmed nicely.  About 11am, the crowds began to really build and there was a tremendous amount of people-traffic going into the train depot to see all of the exhibits.  Each car show participant was given six slips of paper that were color coded and were instructed to vote for other cars in the six classes.  All voting had to be turned in by 1pm to be counted.