8A • COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL • AUGUST 1, 2018
Car show revs, rolls into Cottage Grove
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Car enthusiasts gathered to view a collection of cars from multiple eras, design and horsepower during Saturday's car show in downtown Cottage Grove.
brakes, power windows,
power steering, power seats,
cruise control…” Twylla
drives it to Brownsville and
around town.
“When we bought the
truck he said it had to be
mostly done,” Twylla said,
noting her husband’s agree-
ment to fi x up a classic car
for her in his retirement.
And while the truck
was mostly done, Joe did
By Caitlyn May
cmay@cgsentinel.com
T
erry Th ompson
drove his 1964
Corvette Stingray
from Albany to Cottage
Grove last Saturday with
the full moon still in the
sky as the sun rose over the
mountains.
Th e cherry red car has all
the trademarks of the ’64
model; the hood indenta-
tions that carried over from
earlier years, the real pillar
vent and a window lacking a
split down the middle.
It’s not unusual for
Th ompson to be stopped
— a few months ago, as he
sat at a stoplight, an SUV
with tinted windows pulled
alongside him. Th e driver’s
window rolled down and
a woman popped out to
admire the paint job and
interior, visible with the
convertible top.
“People do that,” he said.
“You end up talking to a lot
of people about your car.”
And Th ompson has
earned every conversation
centered around his Sting-
ray since he bought it as a
retirement gift for himself
aft er a bit of luck lined up in
a long list of circumstance
last year.
“I found it in Santa Rosa,
California,” he explained.
“My nephew lives down
there and he was getting
married. My wife does
wedding cakes and I was
ordained online so we went
down to California for the
wedding and got to talking
about how I wanted an old
Corvette,” he said. “My
nephew said he knew where
one was.”
But Th ompson’s wife
didn’t like the car and aft er
months of looking for an-
other one, she granted him
permission to drive down to
California.
“I went down, picked it
up and drove it back here to
Oregon,” he said.
Th ompson’s story was
one of dozens at Saturday’s
Rock Roll ’n’ Rumble, a car
show that rolls into Main
Street once a year, inviting
the community to come
out and admire classic cars
before rolling back out for a
cruise and block party.
Joe and Twylla Tatum
made the drive from
Junction City with Cottage
Grove being one of seven
shows they had lined up
this year.
Th eir blue 1952 Chevy
Pickup and red 1963 Chevy
Nova (they bought hers and
built his) sat side-by-side
on Saturday as passersby
peaked into open windows
and admired the work Joe
put into the vehicles.
“Hers is like a new car,”
Joe said. “It has power disc
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a bit more to it, including
installing a new 350 engine
under the hood that looks
more like a parked car than
a daily driver.
Th e rumble has been a
part of Cottage Grove’s list
of summer events since
2016 and has been hosted
ever since by local radio
station KNND and South
Lane Cruise.
“We appreciate every-
one who participated in
the event despite the heat,”
Cameron Reiten, owner of
KNND said of the event.
“Th e Rock Roll and Rumble
is one of our most enjoyable
events of the summer.”
Reiten also noted that
KNND expects to award
$1,000 of the admission
profi t to the local Kiwanis
Club who provided volun-
teers for the event.
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