- My name is Jeff Fredine.

I'm from Starbuck, Minnesota, and I currently have restored a 1956 Chevrolet two-door sedan.

While I've always been interested in the Tri five Chevys, they were always so high priced when you would find one, so I kind of backed off on it and waited.

And then I was at a car show about four years ago in Minneapolis, and I ran into a guy that was selling his 56, and it was a, a reasonable price.

He was from Hibbing and it looked like a car that, that I could work with.

So I, I purchased that from him and the story goes on with the restore and I decided to take and tear it down, find out what I had, and build it back up to something that, that I wanted it to look like.

Kind of a turquoise off-colored white, which is kind of a traditional 19, you know, fifties color.

Nice looking, but it wasn't me.

I wanted something a little classy.

I think one of the things I, I would say would be maybe different would be the color scheme.

You won't find too many cars that are too toned with this color and the interior to match it.

I think that's more unique than anything.

I think that's what really drives, I think people to the car really is, is the color combination.

You know, the only thing that really looks like a 56 is the outside, you know, but I've put Custom Dakota digital gauges in there, power windows.

They didn't have power windows back then.

Tinted glass, smoke glass.

I have five way power electric seats out of a Cadillac.

El Dorado 2001.

I put in the sound system in it, of course is a lot different than, than what they had back at 56.

So the whole inside is modern.

I had a decision to make on the, on the drive, train and motor.

It originally came with a six cylinder in it.

We removed the six cylinder and put a small block Chevy.

You had two options, a six and a 2 65, but I didn't have access to a 2 65, so I, I put a 2 83 in it.

Well, the special name, I wanted to put a collector plate on there and so, what would you call it?

What was the color of the car?

It's a metallic gold and a, and a metallic brown, a root beer.

And it's sweet looking.

So we just said, well, let's call it brown sugar.

Then a friend of mine, Dave Gunderson and I got together right after we retired.

We wanted to start up a car show.

So we got with the city and the city said, sure, you can, you know, rent out the park and have your show there.

So we sat down and from scratch and set up a game plan to start a car show.

I'd never done it.

He'd never done it.

We just, we took our own personal funds and did all the promotions.

We were able to, I think the first year, I believe we pro probably got about 65 or 70 cars, which we thought was pretty good, you know, and so we've been doing it ever since.

And now it's growing.

This was our 10th year.

It's an event that we want the families to come to, you know, and kids.

So we give out prizes to the kids and we give outdoor prizes and we have food and refreshments and everything that you need.

And the only thing we gotta hope for is a nice day.