Deuce Days Victoria BC 2025

[DanL]

Attended Deuce Days in Victoria BC a couple weeks back.... and what a huge colorful spectacle it was. At it's peak on Sunday the entire harbor front was solid cars and people. The pictures don't really do it justice. The Deuce Days model show was great... met some nice people, saw some fine work and even managed to pick up a few old kits. Highly recommend this show ... you can combine a west coast holiday with the love of all things automotive.

Cheers

Dan

[Misha]

This summer’s Deuce Days was a big hit as shown by the crowds filling Victoria’s Inner Harbour. It was also the fourth consecutive event that our club, Scale Plastic Automotive Modellers (SPAM) has hosted a model display at the host hotel. Our involvement stretches back to 2016 as Deuce Days is staged every three years. The past displays have been focused on the 32 Ford which have featured all the various production styles of the Deuce. This year we widened the scope to include Rods & Customs modelling subjects up to 1999. 

Display of fifteen factory variations of the Deuce from 2019

A high light to this year’s event was having Alan and Ute Barton from Perth, Australia 🇦🇺 join in the festivities. Alan proved to be a most entertaining guest with stories of the Aussie hot rod and modelling adventures. His partner, Ute is also very involved with miniatures with constructing book dioramas, volumes that open up to reveal amazingly intricate scenes. Alan is also very active member of this forum and it was a great pleasure to actually meet him in person!  

Allan Barton on the right with myself, wearing the DD t-shirt from 2000. 
 

B.C. Hobbies (since 1952) helped to promote and sponsor the show and devoted window space to feature a collection of Phil Dauphinee’s Deuces & Customs.

 

Enlarging the model display with more categories resulted in a considerable greater number of examples on the tables and an increased interest among the people passing through the doors. 
 

Phil’s display of 32 Deuce models built over the years. Many being replicas of local cars or well known rods. 

 

Allan Barton brought a couple of his builds from down under featuring the required switch to right hand drive. They are at the bottom of the shot sitting on the mats. 
 

Steve Hayden’s build of a Deuce sedan. Followed by his turbo hot rodded Fiat…

While I was unable to complete my entry for this year, there was a WIP category in which I displayed my 5 window comp coupe rail. 

 

In the Factory Stock category my entry of an AMC S/Rambler captured the Modellers’ Choice award. This is a kit I completed thirty-five years ago with extensive engine bay and chassis detail and it was a thrill to see it complete amongst the other great builds!

Overall this year’s event was bigger and better, building upon past successes one hopes for an even more impressive Deuce Days in 2028!

Featured Deuce on this year’s poster. 
 

Cheers Misha