<![CDATA[The Southsider Voice - Car Nutz]]>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 01:30:08 -0500EditMySite<![CDATA[Car Nutz Cruise-in July 7, 2023]]>Sun, 16 Jul 2023 03:57:35 GMThttps://www.southsidervoice.com/car-nutz/car-nutz-cruise-in-july-7-2023​We had great weather for last Friday’s Car Nutz Cruise-in. Attendance has been down since the pandemic, but the cruise-in is still going on. We encourage you to bring your ride out and show it the first Friday of each month at 5:30 p.m. Here’s a few of the beauties that were there this past week. Keep on cruising!
Be sure to check out the cruise-in at the Moose Lodge on Emerson Avenue in Beech Grove. They gather every Saturday afternoon at 1:00 p.m. Waitresses mill around the cruise in taking food and drink orders and the food is GOOD! Our next Car Nutz cruise-in is Friday, August 4, 2023, 5:30 p.m., at Beck Service Center parking lot, 6025 Madison Ave., 46227 (Southeast corner of Madison and Edgewood avenues).
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Sam Emerson, below,  is currently working on his 23rd restoration. Several have been 1957 Chevys and several have been first gen Corvettes. He brought this beautiful 1957 Bel Air Convertible to the cruise-in. Sam restored this car in 1986 and it still shows fantastically!
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Lifetime Southsider, Phil DeJean, brought his 1963 Impala Sport coupe. Phil has owned this beauty for 31 years and counting. It has a 327 four-speed.
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Dave Johnson rolled into the cruise-in driving this beautiful 1965 Impala SS.
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Ernie Patton is the proud owner of this custom show truck. Once his everyday drive is now his weekend toy.
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This beautiful 1973 Camarao is owned by Mark Bowles and has been to many cruise-ins with this car and his 1969 Camaro pace car. Always happy to one of these two beauties.
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Check out this stunning 1955 Dodge Royal Lancer. Certainly not something you see everyday. I love the colors!
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This sharp 1972 Chevelle is the latest acquisition of Jim Oakley’s collection. This is a 100% rust free Texas car.
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AC Tucker was showing this beautiful Nova 2-door hardtop.
]]><![CDATA[Southport ‘Vest A Cop’ Car Show]]>Thu, 24 Oct 2019 22:16:00 GMThttps://www.southsidervoice.com/car-nutz/southport-vest-a-cop-car-show
By Brett Hickman

Organized through the tireless efforts of DJand promoter, Paul Rippy, the inaugural South-port ‘Vest A Cop’ car show was held Saturday,October 12 in the parking lot behind Renais-sance Electronic Services and next to the newSouthport Police Department administrationbuilding in Southport.Sunny skies helped attract a great turn-out of104 classic, restored and customized automo-biles, trucks, hot-rods and motorcycles.The event, free to the public, had softdrinks, hotdogs, and event shirts available. Allproceeds were donated to the Southport PoliceDepartment to purchase new ballistic vests (Federal Law mandates that all police ballisticvests must be upgraded every 3-years) for the force of more than 50
officers. Southport businesses generously stepped-up with donations and contributions totalling over $8,000 prior to the start of the event.There were 12-judged categories, Top-20 awards, Overall Best Of Show along with dash-plaques awarded to the first 100 entrants.

Wall plaques were awarded to the Top 20 winners, while both wall plaques and banners were awarded to category winners.

Special thanks to the Judges:
 Tim Walker, Glenn DavidHollandworth,Tony Nelis and Mark Timbs for taking the time to
meticulously and fairly judge each and every entrant. It was a diffcult
task considering the number and quality of all the cars, trucks hot-rods and motorcycles.
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