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Mt. Pulaski Fall Festival hosts
the "Anything With Wheels" Car Show
[September 17, 2025]
Mt. Pulaski held their annual
Fall Festival on their Square on the weekend of September 13th and
14th. While the festival did have events on the days leading up to
the weekend, the biggest day of the festival was Saturday the 13th.
The weather that day was nearly overbearing, with the sunny weather
getting up to 93 degrees Fahrenheit at the hottest part of the day.
There were more events scheduled this day than any other day of the
festival. The events started as early as 8:00 a.m. and went as late
as 11:00 p.m.
One of the events that started at 8:00 a.m. was the “Anything With
Wheels” car show. This show ran until 2:00 p.m. and saw vehicles of
all kinds lined up on S. Washington Street from the corner of W.
Cooke Street to W. Wayne Street. Not all of the vehicles were there
at 8:00, with some coming an hour or so later.
The name of the car show did not lie, as the types of vehicles that
were on display ranged greatly. There were tractors of varying sizes
and models. Some of them were toy tractors that were made for kids
to ride. There were race cars and derby cars, as well as sports cars
and muscle cars.
One of the people that brought cars
was a man named Rich Kelley. Kelley brought two race cars, one with
Scooby Doo and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on it, and the other
with Batman on it. Kelley shared that he uses these cars in dirt
track racing at Lincoln’s Spoon River Speedway, and has done so for
about four years. When asked why Scooby Doo and the Ninja Turtles,
Kelley shared that the team actually took a vote this year. They
wanted to do something that the kids were going to enjoy, and those
two franchises won out.
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Another person with a vehicle there
was Troy Rawlings. His vehicle was a demolition derby car that had
clearly seen a lot of action. Rawlings shared that he has been
racing in demolition derbies for about five years now, and that this
car was in the demolition derby at the Logan County Fair. He had won
first place in the Open Wire class with this very car, and shared
that it was his first ever win, and in his hometown, no less.
The cars stayed parked from the early morning into the early
afternoon, as the weather transitioned from cool to uncomfortably
hot. Some of the cars were even in the parade that was held at 4:00
p.m. that day.
Three winners for the show were chosen. These are the winners, the
category they one, and their vehicle model:
● Cars: Randy and Donna West with a 1964 Chevy Impala SS
● Tractors: Joe Lesson with a 1951 Cub
● People’s Choice: JC Coogan with a 1965 GTO
Credit for the photos: Bobbie Taylor and Crash and Flash
Photography, provided by Troy Rawlings. Credit for the results:
Bobbie Taylor.
[Matt Boutcher]
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