The Jim Thorpe-Carbon County Pharaohs Car Club held its first show, The Barnstormer, on Sunday afternoon, with 53 vehicles registered.

Pharaoh Car Clubs from Northampton, Lebanon, and Monroe counties attended.

Proceeds from the show will be donated to the Blue Mountain Animal Rescue.

John Courgis, club commander, came up with an unusual award for the Best in Show winner.

“It’s a championship belt,” Courgis said. “There’s a large one that they can wear for photos, and then a smaller version they can put on their dash board.”

Courgis also thought of the name.

“Originally, I was going to call it ‘Cars on the Farm’; but, I need it to be something a little more catchy; something that will roll off the tongue,” he said. “When they win the belt and they go to other car shows, people will ask, ‘where did you get that?’ They’ll say, ‘it was a show I went to and it was called ‘the Barnstormer.’”

The winner of Best in Show was Erwin Murray of East Stroudsburg, with a 2011 Shelby GT-500. The Best in Show Truck was won by a contestant who went by the name Batman, also from East Stroudsburg, with a 2007 Hummer H2. The Cars on the Farm Award (best club in attendance) went to the Jukebox Cruisers from Jim Thorpe.

The Jim Thorpe-Carbon County Pharoahs Car Club has 66 members.

“There are more coming every day,” Courgis said. “Everybody loves the Pharaoh’s because we don’t have meetings and things of that nature. There’s no gavel coming down, it’s not like that at all. It’s a place to go to enjoy looking at beautiful cars and having fun with good people.”

There is a one-time fee of $65 for a lifetime membership, with spouses free. Membership includes a plaque, window stickers and key chain.

For more information, visit the club’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/jtpharoahs or email them at JThorpePharoahs@yahoo.com