09/22/2025
Well, wasn’t THAT a PARTY?! 🥳
Wow!
We’ve taken a couple days to sit back, take in, and reflect on the turn out we had at our big 50th celebration- and what a turn out it was!! The parking lot was PACKED, many cars lined both sides of the road, and also filled the parking lot across from us (thank you SO much Simply for life/Sara Ross). We didn’t anticipate the number of cars to participate in our collectors car show (59 registered) and the number of amazing patrons who came to help us celebrate.
It was a GREAT day and we can’t thank YOU enough! ❤️
A special thank you goes out to:
🔹Carquest Canada for their wonderful staff, unwavering support, admired leadership, incredible generosity, BBQing expertise, their donation of the grand prize generator, and SO much more
🔹Wayne Lee for his long time friendship, business, and for helping us to organize our very successful car show
🔹 Lynn Cormier/Castrol oil for making the trip down and bringing her amazing race car for all to see! WOW!
🔹 All of the amazing representatives from our collaborating businesses/product suppliers who were able to attend and/or sent some awesome door prizes for our event- there are honestly too many to list and what a BLESSING that is!
🔹 Joelle and Dave from Kool 98 for live broadcasting our event and being such a fun addition to the day
🔹Our MLA Ian Lee, Mayor John Craig, member of council Alexa Detorakis, and MP John Williamson for providing your time and special acknowledgement of our 50 year success
🔹All of those who came out and registered their vehicle to participate in our car show- you all own some beautiful pieces!
🔹All of the children who participated in our colouring contest- so many beautiful and creative masterpieces were entered which made it nearly impossible to decide (we ended up having to draw names!)
🔹 Our dedicated and appreciated employees who kept business running as usual during our event and everyday; your drive, passion, and commitment to our small family business is unmatched and we simply could not do it without you all
🔹 Our family and friends for helping to organize, prepare, set up, tear down, and all else in between
🔹 And of course, our MUCH appreciated and valued customers whom all made this day possible 🙏🏻
A small recap of our event highlights 🏁:
Car show placement 🏆:
🥇William Harmon
🥈 Gary Dougherty
🥉 Hudson Cook
Grand Prize generator winner:
🙌🏻 Jamie Ross
Colouring contest grand prize winner:
🖍️ Amaira Negus
Carquest stool Facebook like/share/comment contest winner:
✅ Kathy Seamans
We hope that everyone who attended was able to enjoy the BBQ, car show, entertainment, and mingle together for some good conversation. We can only hope that our founder/father/grandfather Norman Vance (Normie to many) is proud of his legacy and the ongoing dedication of his children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren, as MANY have held a special place behind our parts counter throughout the years. It’s been a pleasure serving our community as a small family owned and operated buisness the last 50 years and we look forward to seeing you for many years to come.
Thank you for helping make celebrating this incredible milestone possible! 🖤