As we enter the waning days of summer, two events will be turning back the clock about a century at History Park in San Jose.

Car enthusiasts will no doubt be zooming over to the Santa Clara Valley Model T Ford Club’s 25th annual Cars in the Park celebration, which the club says has grown into the largest antique and classic car show in the west. All of the cars displayed were made no later than 1949, and the emphasis this year is on race cars made in 1931 or earlier. There’ll be music, food and other vehicles besides cars like vintage tractors, motorcycles, bicycles and fire trucks.

Dennis Mattish, who wrote a book on the Bay Area auto racing history, will give a presentation on that topic at 1 p.m. and Mike Hennessy will lead the popular Model T put-together starting at 2:30 p.m. behin

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