{"id":225736,"date":"2026-06-23T11:54:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/225736\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T11:54:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:54:32","slug":"fathers-day-car-shows-bring-families-together-across-northeastern-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/225736\/","title":{"rendered":"Father&#8217;s Day car shows bring families together across Northeastern Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For many, polishing chrome, opening the hood, and spending the day together among classic cars are memories that will last a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 Hundreds of classic cars filled McDade Park in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Scranton<\/a> on Saturday morning for the 32nd annual Villa Capri Cruisers Father\u2019s Day Car Show.<\/p>\n<p>Generations of fathers and sons walked together, taking in the cool sights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can&#8217;t beat old steel, old iron. I&#8217;m a Harley guy myself, but just to see the classic cars is insane because they don&#8217;t make them like that anymore,\u201d said Thomas Lents of Hanover Township.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Mages came with his dad to the car show for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The two showcased a 1957 Chevy Bel Air. Mages spent a summer restoring, with some help, of course.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was something cool. A few years ago, we took it back out and like, restored it a little bit. It&#8217;s just like so awesome working on it, and now finally seeing it out and public and everything,\u201d said Christian Mages of Scranton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor him to do that with his grandfather, to have this experience and memory. It means the world. It really does,\u201d said Mages\u2019 father.<\/p>\n<p>For many, polishing chrome, opening the hood, and spending the day together among classic cars are memories that will last a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>In Susquehanna County, at the Speakeasy Saloon and Resort in Union Dale, another Father\u2019s Day car show brought families together.<\/p>\n<p>For Jennifer Osborn and her father, it is a yearly tradition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy father is a veteran. So proud to have him as my father. I&#8217;m lucky. I have the best father in the world. This is what this world and this country should be about. Family and good times,\u201d said Jennifer Osborn of Fleetville.<\/p>\n<p>Whether it is a first restoration project with Grandpa or a yearly tradition with Dad, these classic cars are not the only things standing the test of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For many, polishing chrome, opening the hood, and spending the day together among classic cars are memories that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-225736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}