AutoFair Rolls Into Lowe’s Motor Speedway
Written by John Davison · September 13, 2006
Calling All Gearheads!
This weekend is the newest edition of the Food Lion AutoFair at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. Attracting cars from across the country, the September companion to April’s AutoFair this year features the “stars” of Disney/Pixar’s hit movie “Cars” along with classic woodie station wagons; the fortieth anniversary celebrations for the Shelby GT500 Mustang and the Dodge Charger; a cartoon-covered Ford Model AR pickup truck; a Cord (yes, Cord!) bodied street rod; a Plexiglas-roofed 1954 Mercury Sun Valley; antique farm tractors; a 900-horsepower 2006 Mustang; even beach music bands and the Ultimate Surfmobile built on Discovery Channel’s “Monster Garage” television program.
If all this isn’t enough to attract the attention of the gearhead in you, there are around six thousand exhibitors and vendors with everything for sale from hamburgers to cars in all stages of restoration.
Vendors will have parts, books, memorabilia, even non-automotive items on display in the infield and much of the track’s parking surrounding the third and fourth turns.
The cartoon Model A has been a long-term project by New Jersey high school art teacher Robert Luczun. In an ongoing project that has already consumed over 2,000 hours of labor. Airbrushed cartoon images cover nearly every inch of the 1928 Model AR Roadster pickup, beginning with the first comic, The Yellow Kid, and progressing through current comics and animated cartoons, with the tailgate populated by the cast of Fox’s “The Simpsons” program.
In a rare departure from the norm, Luczun’s cartoons are not roped off to keep the public from examining it closely. “Cartoons appeal to all of us, no matter what age,” he says. “Our first instinct when we see figures like Snow White or the Jolly Green Giant is to touch them
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