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This is always a good show and seems to bring in a bunch of cars, even
if it's kinda early in the morning for a car show.
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I won 'best of show' that day which was really cool. And I'll be looking
forward to attending this show again soon.
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The 13th annual Redlands Professional Firefighters car show was on May
17th which ran from 8:00 a.m. till 3:00 p.m. This is a really nice show
that's held on State St. which is in the older section of Redlands. You
have to get to this show pretty early if you want a decent parking spot
as the place fills up fast so we got their before 6:00. They
had a pancake breakfast that went from 7 - 10 a.m. and there was a huge
raffle and 50/50 drawing too. There is food, drinks along with all
kinds of refreshments and if you didn't like any of that, you could
always go to one of the many restaurants near by.
The weather was warm with temps in the high 80's and with it brought
about 250 really nice cars, trucks, motorcycles and special interest
vehicles. Let's check out what some of them looked like.
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It appears there were so many cars that some of them had to park down the
middle of the street but that's really not the case here. Something was
blocking their path but I couldn't tell what...till I stood up and
looked.
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The road block was none other than a tow truck. And the car he's after is
that small black one that parked in a temporary "no parking zone". It's
hard to tell from here but the no parking signs are on every street
light poll and in this case, it happens to be right in front of this
car. They had a cop standing by in case the owner came back so there
wouldn't be any
problems.
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I've never seen one of these trucks get a car out of parking place that
was at a right angle to the tow truck before so I grabbed a front row seat
and watched for a minute. This was all quite interesting
to me and if you've never seen it before, I'll walk you through the
process. The
truck has a cable that runs down the center of the flatbed (which is
standard with these types of trucks). What they
do is hook a pulley to a chain which then gets attached to the bed of the truck. Once it's
hooked in place the tow truck driver puts the cable through the
pulley and then he can pull from just about any angle he wants. Yes I said 'pull'
...in other words, 'drag it out' and then keep dragging it till it's on
the flatbed. I'm sure this is really easy on the cars transmission too. Want to
see him in action,
check out this short video that I took
and keep your eyes on the front wheels...because they don't turn. Sucks
to be this person.
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