Cars and Coffee bring vintage cars to Lindsborg's Main Street

Cars and Coffee is a place where people with cool cars, dating back to the 1920s, show off their metal beasts, each with a different story to tell.

Cars and Coffee meets from 8 to 11 a.m. every Saturday in the spring, summer, and fall, weather permitting. The Oct. 3 gathering featured vehicles from different eras, each with its own history.

James and Amy Rorabek started the Cars and Coffee event in Lindsborg 2 years ago to drive their antique cars more often, without the pressure of formal car shows.

“We couldn’t find ways to get it out and drive it often enough,” James Rorabek said.

The couple launched Cars and Coffee through a Facebook post inviting people to bring their vehicles and enjoy coffee. What began as a small gathering has continued to grow.

“In the beginning, it started with four or five people, and we’ve had some weeks with 30 or more people, 30, 40 cars,” Rorabek said.

Attendance varies, and anyone with a car they want to bring can come and go throughout the morning.

“Some weeks there’ll be 15 or 20, and some weeks there’s 30 or 40 cars,” Rorabek said.

Among the vehicles on display was Joe Douglas’ tan 1947 Plymouth, which has only 10,700 miles. According to Douglas, a man returning from World War II purchased the Plymouth when new cars became available in 1947. Douglas is its third owner.

“I like original cars. I’ve got three of them and all of them are originals,” Douglas said.

Douglas enjoys sharing the Plymouth with visitors, especially children, whom he allows to sit inside and honk its double cow horns.

“I always let children sit in it. I don't care if they want to take pictures. I let them blow the horn. Because it's got, like, double cow horns on it,” Douglas said.

The gathering also draws visitors like Anthony Feldhake, a student in the McPherson College Automotive Restoration program. Feldhake attended with his family after discovering the event a few weeks earlier.

“I came through with my friends maybe 2 to 3 weeks back, and we just stopped by to get breakfast at the Blacksmith Coffee Shop, and we just came back through to see what’s going on,” Feldhake said.

Tim Boyle brought another piece of automotive history: a 1928 Model A Roadster. Boyle and his wife moved from Florida to be closer to their grandchildren. He sold his silver coin collection to help purchase the car.

“We’ve owned it since the very beginning of May and have been working on it ever since,” Boyle said.

With loud rumbling engines on Main Street in Lindsborg and cow horns that families and children can honk on Joe Douglas’ 1947 Plymouth, the event gives the community a chance to have fun.

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