PAGE 14, WITBY FREE PRESS WEDNESAY, JULY 2r4 1990 by JiI Mclntosh Onie of the, best Canats, the l9th annual Canadian Street Rod Nationals held here in Whitby on Jly 6, 7 and 8, is a memory now -- and according te moat of the participantsi, a happy one. 7Many of the people I spoke te over the weekend teld me it was one of the best shows they had ever attended. Many also said that the great welcome given te them by the town of WVhitby made the weekend special. The tours te Whitby interest spots such as Cullen Gardens, Faniily Kartways and the downtown sidewa]k sale were busy ail weekend. Two women from Massachusetts teld me over and over how much they liked it here -- they had visited the sidewalk sale twice and were on their way te =the Whitby Mail. (Their husbands weren't quite as enthusiastic considering how many packages they brought back!) Approximnately 14,000 specta- ters entered over Saturday and Sunday te view the 490 cars on display. The bookkeeping is not flnished so the axnount that will be given te the Whitby General Hospital fund is not yet known but it will be announced soon and it is expected te be generous. Many events helped te make the weekend special but a few stand out in mny mind. One was the chance te, catch up with an old and very dear friend -- one F neyer met before! Although Id been a pen-pal with my friend jiz Kitzul from Winnipeg for some time, it was the first time we'd met. She drove her open 1923 Ford T-bucket to the event, and received the Mayor's Choice Award and a gift from deputy mayor Tom Edwards when he decided that her car was lus. favorite in the show.1 A popiflar gaine at the show was the ski race: four people strap on twvo long sis and walk in umisoni over a racecourse. It requires teamwork, and the tearà that won cýrt.aînly displayed that. Yet one o the members, a car owner fom Quebec, spoke virtually no English at aIl. The other three needed a fourth player so they added hMm on te their teain. Togethier, ail four figured out what they needed te, make it work even though they couldn't ta]k te each other. Such is the power of friendship and a common goal. And one lady, - Bey Ottaway from Brechin, overheard someone talIng about a car that was there. The owner's naine sounded faiiar, so we looked it up. Sure enough, it was Bev's maid of honor at her wedding, a women she hadn't seen for 19 years. Afler sending out several people in search of the missing bridesmaid, we finally got the two' reunited. Ail weekend they wa]ked around the park armn-in-arm, chatting away trying to catch up on nearly two decades. Street Dreams Car Club would SEE PAGE 17 RODGEBS GOBE of Michigan bas a Model T-Ford Club 1990 tour stop at look at an old Uxboro lire dg-, ent Cuflen Gardens. vehicle durinx the North Amlerican Fre Pr.- photo Old Fords fit to a 'T' at Cullen Gardens Byv Chris Bovie They rernain one of the most recognizable car& in the world, and last Friéay hundreds of them passed through Whitby. The North American Model-T Ford Club met at Cullen Gar- dens, and -nodels ranmng from 1909-1927 fit n-,icely in the-Cullen settin. Each year cities in North Ainerica bid to have the club hold their reuion. This year North York won the bid. Cullen Gardens one of the stops on a tour of the area. The teur will be held in Minnesota next year and Alabama in 1992. "It's hot enog here, let alone Alabama:' said one car owiner, Rodgers Gore of Michigan, of the warm, humid weather. organized the event, a massive job considering the 330 cars in- volved. Most members are from the United States, and many drove their classic cars rather than tow them. The one-week event follows the successful CANATS-show held recently at froquois Park. -~ urshwromHonda CiviC DX Mia323 DX Toyota Tercet DX VW Golf Drcq by ors ron2- Mratch2 oor Mtch 2-Door Coupa 2-000f Match .. ... ....for a test dnive today. 4 cyknder engmne 1.5 lire 1.6 lire 1.5kltre 1 8htre Hoseçaerff 92@0Mn"P 82@0Mnxn 78600P<I 100 0 5M rff bet-e0 $ng* 10,950* Tchorrneter No No No b s ns fi gCorrosion 5 Vears 5 vears 5 years 6yers warranty unkritedkT nted km tachmatd k m s unnited krn ITe rs. ...Hetght 4custable No No No car in Europe. V k irs175.70-Rl31757-R3358-l 7-0S1 Oesel enge NNN ai no etacs Prcce -T -$11.955 j $11.680 $11.408 $0.5 For the third straight year, Europeans Sebl acte fdS 90nidl.Matdcuge Matai iam oeaMn fatura dsJciJaEMy 1990. have made the affordable, practoal, fur ta drive « at nraniatril ygse eatpiafo -urnX k -PWnu"al transnf. Volkcswaaenf Golf the best sellinci car in Europe.* z3bns, t"N iand Matds"etiori tal pncny e for lm&rmnew 5pO * > ~ , * ~ ~ ~. t < T ~-. .'.,. 4 35 MIN PROM DOWNTOWN -i ORON Owasco Volkswagen inc. 1425 DUNDAS ST. E., WHITBY Oshawa/Whitby 668-9383 Ajax/Pickering/Toronto 683-3235 Toll Free 1-800-263-2676 Experience the owasco feeling - its been proven since 1972. AN "I CARE" AND OML SERVICE AWARD WINNER! 4* 444 64 4 644 4~ r. - .