Lightning McQueen replica pays a visit to Brockville, Ont. [Video]

There wasn’t a Piston Cup being held in Brockville, Ont. on Sunday, but that didn’t stop one of the stars from the movie Cars from making a pit stop in the City of Thousand Islands.

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A near perfect replica of Lighting McQueen came to Hardy Park for a meet and greet. Dozens of kids got as close as they could to get a better view of the vehicle.

A welcome sight for the vehicle’s owner, Gary Papaya.

“Obviously I’m obsessed with (the) movie Cars from Disney,” he said in an interview, wearing a Lightning McQueen-themed hoodie and crocs.

He said he was inspired after watching the first Cars movie, released by Pixar in 2006.

“I said, oh, this is interesting because I love cars, but I didn’t know that there’s a movie with the cars,” he said.

“I didn’t imagine one day I (would) …