It was a summer night and Dan Moore said to Garry Work, as the friends were looking out at Rutherglen Close, the quiet Sarnia street would be a nice place to have a car show.

Work agreed.

Six months later Moore was calling Work to DJ for the first event.

“I figured two years, you know,” Work said, recalling how 2009’s started with maybe 50 cars.

“Here we are,” 17 shows later, he said, sitting in the DJ booth Saturday amid 300 vehicles parked on the mid-street green space and neighbours’ lawns.

The annual J’s Performance Invade the Close car show that’s attracted people from as far as Vancouver, and in recent years has raised about $13,000 per year for the local Salvation Army in Sarnia, was celebrating its final lap Saturday.

“I’ve been invading the neighbours’ peace and quiet for th

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