It has been a while since Trent Ferguson dusted off the ‘69 Chevelle Super Sport that he built with his son.

With a rainstorm missing the Pre-Scoop Cruise-In and Car Show event Friday night, Ferguson thought it was the perfect time to bring it out of the garage.

Ferguson said his brothers had the old Chevelle his whole life while it sat in the garage before he decided to buy it and start a project with his son, Garrett.

“We pretty much built it together,” Ferguson said.

From sanding and painting to engine and interior work, revitalizing the old Chevelle became a way for them to spend quality time together.

Unfortunately, Garrett passed away in 2015 from what can be described as a broken heart according to Ferguson. For him, the orange Chevelle is a living memory of the time he spent with his son.

“We won people’s choice in 2018,” he said. “It’s been a while, but for Scoop I thought I would bring it out.”

Across the Farmer’s Lot where the Pre-Scoop Car Show took place sat Fred Vogel in his lawn chair enjoying the shade and admiring his 1957 Chevrolet panel van.

When searching for another classic car to add to his collection, Vogel wanted something with a little more room.

“I saw it on the internet, we drove to Elkhart, Indiana, and bought it,” he said. “I love all the room it has inside.”

Vogel said besides rebuilding the motor and transmission, the refurbishing process was a piece of cake.

“We recently drove it to Mississippi and it was a comfortable drive,” he said.

The panel van sits in his multi-car garage along with a ‘64 Corvette and a ‘66 Chevelle.

Rumbling engines and screeching tires filled much of downtown Seymour on Saturday night as people lined the streets during Scoop the Loop.

In its heyday of soda pop and classic rock music, Scoop the Loop brought people together as they took laps in their vehicles and gathered along the streets. After a long hiatus, it was revived in 2011.

For the past eight years, the Southern Indiana Corvette Klub, known as SICK Vette, have parked their cars on St. Louis Avenue to enjoy the cruise-in as one of many events the club attends.

The Southern Indiana Corvette Klub is made up of Corvette enthusiasts from all across southern Indiana.

Justin Jenkins of New Albany has been part of the club for three years and since then has travelled to various car shows, expos and vacations with club members.

“We have all become friends and family,” he said. “Everyone is so nice and everyone helps each other out. It’s more than just a Corvette club.”

Once a month the club attends a tour, car show or road trip making memories with one another.

“What I like the most about being in the club is there are no meetings and no club dues,” he said. “At the end of the day we are just friends who want to spend time together and look at fast cars.”

Jenkins said he admires the hot rods and low-riders that come to cruise.

“It’s a blast from the past,” he said. “I like coming to Scoop the Loop to see all kinds of different cars.”

Erin Hays, a member of the organizing committee for Scoop the Loop, said the addition of food trucks for Saturday received positive feedback, however, he was disappointed with the amount of burnouts and reckless driving the past two years. Hays took to Facebook in hopes to spread the word about the importance of safety for this event.

“When Scoop the Loop was envisioned it was to breathe life into downtown, give people that blast from the past, meet old and new friends, see some cool cars and have community pride,” he said. “Between the burnouts and the multiple buckets of trash it’s not acceptable. We have to do better at policing this ourselves or we won’t be able to have an event like this anymore.”

Hays said at last year’s Scoop the Loop event several vehicles were damaged due to a burnout.

Hays said the committee is looking into a “burnout box” on one of the lots downtown to hopefully curb the amount of burnouts on the streets downtown. Hays added there would be a cost associated to this possible “burnout” event.

“Going into next year I will talk with the mayor and chief of police to get a larger or stationed police presence during the event to help with safety issues,” he said. “We can have a great event without the burnouts.”

The committee also has thought about hosting more than one event per year to hopefully thin down traffic flow.

“If you want to show your buddies you’re cool and know how to power brake, go somewhere where there aren’t hundreds of people lining the streets,” he said. “I want to see this event and others outlive many generations and to do that the city has to see all the benefits and no issues. Let’s do this better so our kids, grandkids and great grandkids can go down there and say, ‘This is so cool’.”