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wlm~YFR~ PESSWEDESDY, NVEMER 8,128 AGE23 Lck of .fundin grounds solar car by,,JiI Mcltosh ,he other day I was reading a boolet sent out by our NP, -Resa SeUvenson. In it was a page of cnrtulations'for 5th and 6th weddàing anniversaries, and birthdays9 of people a-ged 80 and Over. It was interestig teo ee -the pouar nmes of My gradfthe'sgeneration. ikïe cloe-,names go in and out of faiei and it's à po"uble to'go i the shoppingý centre without lâmfi pare allUing te Jason My. grandrnts grew up knowig eope narnedAgnes, Beatrice, 'ioîa, Màbl and Minnie. .Because fasions and Urnes hv changed, Jasn and Jonathan of today ifll probsbly- nover know ayof Umm. But it in't juatpeople's naines that have - chne with the trnes. Readers- who remember Viola and Minnie cari alo crsm up with Borne long-forgo 1n naines that were once comm n sightsoenthe street. Pjackar4 De Sot%, Studebaker Rambler, Durnt, LaSalle ... ai theee are now jue uriosties at the car shows or in museuma. To some extent, car naines tended te reflect the trnesi they appeared in. When automobiles were first introduced, they were simply named after the people whoi came out with thein - Ford, Cleler, Chevrolet , Oldmble. oethat didn't tended to look te the histoiy bOOICS giving ms Pyouth (for theMàyflower) Lincon (for the resint) anâ Cadillac (the foundzr oDetrotit). The 19209Y,_a decade of discovery and' wonder, prodliced herces *woe naines ended up on radiator badges. 'The best-known. now long gone, were the Roosevelt (for the president) and the Rickenbacker (for the WW1 flying For a while, animal nines were ail the rage. W.4jotth detagthe pala, 1ouPr, Bronco, Pinto (maybe we shoulddt have gotten tiat one), abbit and Fox Now that computers are coimon, our cars refleet thein ,with combinations of letters and numbers - XR7 MRIL Mont craçr went out of their way to splash the naine as -many times as possble on the car. Some, though, went just the oherýa, and theïr Cirescarred no name at ai; the' company felt the car's unusualdesign was enough. And to this da, motRolIs Royces carry no other identification tha the entwined '2RR"on the radiator and hubcaps. A fairly recent trend, and one 1 think rather sly, is to announce the car' inner woerkings ail over the outside. I thought it was quite lassr in the 1960a te see a nail "409' or '79' badge on the fender, te show that this car had a little extra oomph!. But today, we get the ownées- manuel on the paint rather fthan ithe lovebox!, Now cars announice DOHC, EFI, Intercooled, Turbo Twin tuirbo, 4 speed, 16 valve, Rk>, and one even .goes so fer as te write "Four Sater" on the side window, lest anyone be i doubt. Personally,. I could neyer see wihy anyon!e biqt the car's owner "vold be interested in knowing. SRE PAGE 35 .By Mike Kowalakl A lacki of money bas grounded The Northigh t. More s «rcally a failue to rais. suficient funds- has preven- ted a local group froin participat- ing, in, a tonmpetition for solar- powered vehicles currently underway in Australia. But what is especially frustrat- ing for the group is their firin belief that the Iocally-produced car would have taken top honors in the event.'. The North Liight is a, project of the, Delta Solar Teamn. The company was formned two years ago by Whitby residents John Rowe and Manfred'Timm for the express purpose of enter- y, i ing a Canadian-designed car i the 1990 World Solar Challenge. Butlack of financial supprt from both government and he corporate sector meant that team memnbers had to stay ini Canada. Ini fact, funding ran out before work on the car was completed. «Realist*Ialywe -needed another s$l70,0Oà, said Rowe, Delta'. project maniager, "but it was not meant to be.» "The really anoyirg thing is that w. could have the race." Although Borne cars, including one entered by a tean fromn Queen's University iii Kingston, are- stili. on the road, the 3,500- km. race *as. won by a Swiss8- made vehicle. Rtowe, however believes the winnin car woulA have, been no matchior The North Light. He points out that every car iM the race was equapped wth only eight squae metres of solar p anèel, whereas The North Laight has 25a. Combining this factor with the overaîl design, h car is capable of averaging 80 km/h. Buiît of aluminum fibr4eas and Keviar honeycomb the body rese -on a chrome :moybdenum chassis which is lighter than a bicycle.frame.' Measuring 20 ft. long, 6.6 &t acrose at its. widestpoint, and SEE PAGE 35 A weI-malntal' nod car la your bout dol enso againat a rough wlntor. The CANADIAN AuTroMOBILE ASSOCIATIrON bas ldontlflod thoso major aroas that neod pro-wlnter attention. 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