Classic & Vintage (Director: Trevor Marc Hughes)
Documentary/20 mins/2020
Format: Go Pro 3+ Silver
Screening: YouTube Premiere (August 2020)
I’ve been a vendor for several years at the Classic & Vintage Motorcycle Swap Meet and Show N Shine. It’s a annual event (postponed for COVID-19) that assembles together motorcycle enthusiasts from around British Columbia and even from further afield. I was always the odd one, selling my books, while I was surrounded by tables selling motorcycle hard parts, knick knacks and memorabilia. I had my 1999 Kawasaki KLR650 behind me, hardly a classic motorcycle (although time will tell if it does become one). As I looked around me I saw how it brought together the motorcycle community like no other event I’d witnessed. I’d learned the event had been organized and produced by one family, the Copans, since 1986. I wrote a story about the 2017 event for Rider Magazine, then an idea got into my head.
Why not bring my Go Pro 3 Silver to the next year’s event and see what I could capture? The project grew to include in-depth interviews with Todd Copan, Barbara Kearney-Copan and Mack Copan, members of the Greater Vancouver Motorcycle Club (who volunteered to help out at the events) as well as several vendors. Classic & Vintage is the result. I hope you can have a look. Click on the image above. The running time is just under twenty minutes. Enjoy.
