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With temperatures in the 70s, Saturday was a perfect time for a car show.

The 13th Annual Fraternal Order of Police Cherokee Chapter No. 4 “Cruising with the Cops” Car, Truck and Motorcycle Show attracted car enthusiasts to Fred Miller Park.

Blake Foshie, of Russellville, displayed his 1968 Synergy Green-colored Chevrolet Camaro. It took Foshie eight years to rebuild the car after he purchased it.

“It’s a six-speed, has an LS3 engine, air conditioning, power windows, power locks,” he said. “The Synergy Green color is a late-model Chevy color.”

Under the open hood, a model of the Camaro was also displayed.

“I actually found that online,” Foshie said. “It was actually that color (Synergy Green), but it had a white interior. A guy I know took the car apart and painted the interior black. If you look inside it, the shifter is the same color the car’s exterior is, (along with) the door panels. Even the gauges are just like it is in the car.”

In the open trunk, Foshie had displayed the 1968 Camaro owner’s manual, a Camaro parts catalog and an umbrella. Two black stripes are also on the back of the Camaro, smoothed with six coats of clear coating.

Steve Ray, of Morristown, had a 1963 Nova Chevy II car displayed nearby.

“I did everything on this car but the paint,” Ray said. “I redid the engine, the transmission, interior and rear end. It has a 283 4-speed transmission.

“I had a friend in Ohio who painted it black with Hugger Orange, a color on the 1969 Camaro Z-28,” Ray said.

Ray developed a fondness for hot rods during his teenage years, leading to obtaining the Chevy II.

“I was able to pick it up as a body on eBay 15 or 16 years ago,” he said. “I started working on it on my days off through the week.”

Dwayne Cole, of Morristown, displayed his Pontiac Trans-Am “Bandit,” made in a similar style as the Trans-Am in “Smokey and the Bandit,” starring Burt Reynolds and Sally Field. A cut-out sunshade of Reynolds and Field was in the windshield.

“The original ‘Bandit’ was black,” Cole said. “It’s got a small block 400 Pontiac engine, everything is standard.”

The cutout was found online, Cole said.

“I was looking for a sunshade to keep the heat off the dash,” Cole said. “I just put in ‘Bandit Sun Screen’ and it popped up like that. That’s pretty cool. I get a lot of looks with it.”

Christine Short, of Morristown, had a 1963 Ford pickup and was wearing a matching polka-dot dress.

“My husband built it for me,” she said. “We put a 7.3 power stroke engine in it, along with a grille from a 1961 truck because I like that grille better than the 1963 grille.”

The purple and white colors were Christine’s idea, complete with purple fuzzy dice in the window.

“My daughter got those for me for Christmas,” she said.

Proceeds from the “Cruising with the Cops” car show benefits the Cherokee Chapter’s “Cops and Kids” Christmas shopping spree event for children each year. If you didn’t get to donate to the FOP, donations may be made in the buckets at Captain D’s and Golden Corral restaurants in Morristown.