MARYSVILLE — It was a great day for a car show, especially one supporting the Susan G. Komen “3 Day for the Cure” breast cancer research fundraising walk this fall.

The Kumon Math and Reading Centers’ Marysville branch hosted the event at their new location on Delta Avenue, while their event co-sponsors, Fenders and Fins Inc., drew more than a dozen classic car owners to the site after putting out the call to their clientele, but in spite of the bright, warm weather on July 30 that finally felt like summer, the turnout was sparser than the event’s organizers had hoped for.

Gwen Lewis, owner of the Marysville Kumon branch, explained that the car show was also intended to reintroduce their business to the community after its first full month in its new location, while her son and coworker at the Marysville branch, Ivan Lewis, deemed the car show their first step in increasing their involvement in the local community.

“We’ve been in Marysville for 15 years,” Ivan Lewis said. “We can’t just sit here. We’ve got to reach out.”

Ivan and his wife Amanda will be taking part in the “3 Day for the Cure” in Seattle this September, so they decided to get a head start on their fundraising. Amanda’s father John Carson, owns Fenders and Fins, so he was able to recruit a number of his customers, from as near as Marysville and Everett to as far as Bothell and Kenmore.

“I love these cars,” Gwen Lewis said. “They’re so awesome. We hope to do this again and see more folks, but everything went so smoothly this year, right down to the permits from the city. They were so nice.”

Marysville resident Carl Riley, who parked his 1967 Chevrolet El Camino in front of the Kumon offices, was happy to help out a charitable cause by showing off what’s become an ongoing project for him. He admitted that he’s devoted almost all of the 10 years that he’s owned his car to restoring it.

“You always find something new to work on,” Riley laughed. What began as a restoration of the dashboard led to the installation of power brakes and steering, followed by a chrome treatment and a spray-job on the bed liner. “I had an El Camino when I was 21 or 22, so when I turned 50, I needed a birthday present. It’s all about reliving our youth for a lot of these guys here. These cars bring back good memories for us.”

Awards were presented to a few of the car owners near the end of the event, which also featured a barbecue and bake sale. When Bothell’s Dave Bizar won the grand prize of $26 for his 1971 Pontiac GTO, he turned the money back over to the event organizers to go toward the “3 Day for the Cure.” While those organizers were still estimating the total funds raised this weekend, they expressed enthusiasm for staging a bigger car show next year.

“If people don’t know we’re here or what we’re doing, then we’ve got to make sure they find out,” Ivan Lewis said.