Militaria, Gun & Hunting Show
January 28, 2012
March 31, 2012
November 17, 2012
2012 Southern Ontario Military Muster
August 25-26, 2012
Mickey Moulder at mmoulder2@cogeco.ca
Mike Timoshyk at mtimo2@hotmail.com
519 974 9596 |
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Windsor to host military
vehicle show as part of sizzling summer series
Military Muster part of summer car shows
Grace Macaluso
The Windsor Star June 1, 2010
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Michael
Timoshyk, an avid military vehicle collector, rides his
1952 Willy's Jeep with a .50 calibre machine gun mounted
on the back down Labadie Road in Windsor, Ontario on May
28. Timoshyk is a key organizer of the Southern Ontario
Military Muster which will display more than 60 military
vehicles at the two-day event , which starts Aug. 14.
Photograph by: Ben Nelms, The Windsor Star |
War history enthusiasts will get a rare
opportunity this summer to take part in the biggest military
vehicle show ever held in Windsor and Essex County.
Featuring more than 60 war-time vehicles, the
Military Muster will be among the spring and summer offerings of
classic car shows.
"History is marketable," says Mike
Timoshyk, a key organizer of the event to be held Aug. 14-15 at
the Canadian Transportation Museum and Heritage Village.
"People want to know what happened. For the general public,
rarely do you see military vehicles. You see all kinds of '57
Chevys and Hot Rods, but there's so few military vehicle
collectors around that it's unusual to see them.
"Windsor happens to be fortunate that
there's two or three nuts like me in town," he laughs.
An owner of four military vehicles, Timoshyk
spent 32 years with the Canadian Forces until he retired in
2006, moved to Windsor and began restoring military vehicles.
"I've been a military collector since I
was 13 when I received my grandfather's First World War medals.
That tweaked me into military history."
Mickey Moulder, museum volunteer
vice-chairman, asked Timoshyk to organize a two-day event in the
wake of the public's response to a one-day display held last
year at the facility.
"The public loved it," says
Timoshyk. "We arranged for some veterans to come down and
the vets appreciated seeing the old vehicles again."
This year's show will features vehicles
spanning the First World War and the Korean and Vietnam
campaigns. It will display jeeps, trucks, ambulances, tanks and
armoured personnel carriers.
Although it has yet to be confirmed, Timoshyk
also hopes to include vehicles used by the Canadian military in
Afghanistan.
His vehicles, which include a 1942 Ford 1,500
15 CWT (1,500 weight) truck built in Windsor and a 1952 Willy's
Jeep, will be on display.
The event will also feature a re-enactment of
the War of 1812 and a First World War trench, complete with
sandbags and barbed wire.
For more information, go online at
www.ctmhv.com.
This article originally
appeared in the Windsor Star on Tuesday, June 1, 2010.
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