VROOM VROOM WHILE STANDING STILL: WHEELS ON THE DANFORTH CAR SHOW

The cars are parked on the street. They are not moving. Their engines are not running.

But they look fast, they look powerful, they look dangerous. The look sleek and sexy and beautiful. They look like my past, they look like art. The art of steel and paint and chrome and leather. The art of looking fast, while standing still.

This past weekend was our second visit to Wheels on the Danforth, an annual on the street car show that happens in the Crossroads of the Danforth, where Danforth Ave meets Danforth Rd in Scarborough, close to Victoria Park subway station. Last year our visit was plagued by cool rain but this year it was hot and sunny and dang, did all that chrome love it.

The show features vintage and classic cars. Detroit, of course, was well represented ...

... but a few foreign interlopers managed to sneak in

While all the cars were arftfully parked, not all the wheels were stationary. A stunt troup joined the show, featuring BMX bikes and a skater. A lot of speed on display, but no chrome and none of that panty-dropping-rumble the muscle cars represent (It's true, everytime I hear the roar of a 68 Shelby GT Mustang my panties drop right off)

It's a great show, very community based. There is judging and rewards but the atmosphere is very relaxed. It's quite easy to have conversations with the owners of the cars and they were more than willing to accomodate Collete and myself, opening hoods, opening trunks etc so we could get good shots.

No celebration of gas and chrome and internal combustion muscle is not complete without beer and rock and roll and Wheels on the Danforth supported both in the form of a beer tent and the Blues Brothers.

You can hear the latter on the video. I would reccommend hitting the "YouTube" button in the lower right corner so you gain the function to play the video full size