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Whitby Free Press, 27 Jan 1972, p. 8

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Page 8, Thursday, January 27th, 1972, WHITBY FREE PRESS The 13th Annual International Cham- p i on ship Auto Show, Speed Sport '72 wi°be held this weekend, January 28- 30 at the C. N. E. Automotive Building. Speed Sport '72 Speed Sport '72 will feature over 200 motor, custom, and hot-rod cars, over 200motorcycles, prizes and trop- hies. Special attractions include a Cel- ebrity Sports Showcasewith interviews by Mari-Lou MacDonald ,"Body- Language Fashions" presented by SCU Accessories Auto Boutique by designer Mar i lyn Brooks, the 1st Annuai Model Car Conte st , Rock Concerts by the "M i s s i n g L i n ks" and "Bootleg", the crowning of Ontario's "Miss Love Mac- hine", and a Rock Concert by "Christ- masi" with Love from Daffodil. Model.turned-stunt girl Hot-Rods, Motorcycles, Rock Concerts - - It's Speed Sport '72 at the CNE -y Mike Burgess per'sten foot high Hemi powered Tele- PhoneBooth; the Hard-Hat - a satire of t h e Am e r ican pol itical scene; and by far the hairiest, scariest, wildest show- cars ever to be bu!it are the zappy, new 'Zingers'. So don't forget this weekend at the C. N. E. ITil next week, Happy Motoring! Mari-Lou MacDonald is the one time Toronto m ode I now turned stunt-girl, whom we have all probably seen at one t i m e o r another w i thout even knowing h e r n a me. This five-foot-eight-inch- 1 25 pound-supergirl has done anything f rom racing sports cars, to falling off h i gh-rise balconies, and even walking thewingsof an open-seater airplane at 5, 000 feet! Mari-Lou wi ll be starring in h e r own tailor-made TV series called "The Escapists", which no doubt will be a i r e d in the near future. At Speed S po r t '72 she w i Ili be interviewing a cel1 ebrity sports guest panei featuring top Canadian and U. S. sports per son- alities from various sports fields, and w illalso be showing films on her guests. [I I ~-' I8~~MDNfX L7f~~'G RRL .4' i fi' / k ~r, ~ A>. ns~'~ ~ ~ Car accessories fashion show? Would y o u b el1 i eve a fashion show us ing car accessories? That's right, the girls wvill actually be modelling car a cc es s ories ? That's right, the girls w i i i a c tually be model1ing car parts! Can you pic ture a model wearing a pl unging n e ckiace shock absorber ? or a radial-ply tire? Weil if you can.... lili see you there in the front row! Getting back to the car displays (w hic h I believe is.supposed to be the main attraction) although it will be dif- f i cu it to g e t i nterested in cars after the other attractions. . . . "Rambunctious" Custom 'show' cars will include the fa bulous Gene Snow's "Rambunctiousi" the greatest funny car in the history of drag racing. Snow's "Rambunctiousi" ha s won every major drag racing title fr om coast-to-coast. This car will hit a top speed of 220 m. p. h. in the quar- t e r mile with an elapsed time of 6. 76 seconds! Power comes from a 475 cub- ic inch Keith Black Special (originally a 42 6 c. i. hemi), and, burning nitro- m e t h a n e f uel, will del iver over 1800 horsepower to its Goodyear dragslicks! Driving this'volatile machine, Gene Snow grossed over $130, 000 in awards alone last year. "Zingers" Other displays include: Carl Cas- £1. BURN OUT . . . Gene Snow, Fort Worth, Texas, smokes his tires on a burn out run at Pomona, California, during the Winternationals. and "Miss Love Machine"

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