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Whitby Free Press, 17 May 1989, p. 26

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PAGE 26, WHITBY PM~ PRESS, WEDNSDY MY17189 WITH byi JIMclntosh So you think you're a good driver? Able to handle even the heaviest edty traffic with. ease. maneuvering around other drivers and obstacles in your path? Prove it. The Oshawa Motor Sport Club, an organization which has been around since 1960, has more than 200 participating members who reguiarly take their vehicles out on specially designed courses te pit their skiils against the dlock. *Solo I events are heid on actual horsetracks, but cars compete individuaiiy against a dlock. Solo II events are held on large paved 'lots through courses marked by rubber pyions, with the object te get through the course as quickly as possible while stili keeping te the course. The Motor Sport Club stresses that no competition experience is necessary and almost any car can be used in their event. For novices, the club provides in-car instruction_. by experienced instructors in order that anyone may enjoy the sport. Anyene interested in trying their hand at either type of Soie events can write te the Oshawa Motor Sport Club, P.O. Box 555, Oshawa, L1H 7L9. -In the Oshawa/Whitby a rea you.can aise cail Gaby Mann at 433-1207. If you're into Iess formai events, the "cruise nights" have begun in the Ajax and Oshawa areas. Weather permi tting, a wide variety of modified and restored vehicies ineet on Saturday nights at the Bayiey Plaza, just west of Harwood Rd. on Bayiy in Ajax (across from McDonald's); and on Sunday nights at the K-Mart Plaza on Simcoe St. S., just north of the 401 in Oshawa. Both events may still be small, since the real "oid car" weather stili isn't predlict.able, but they wiii steadily grow as the nights get warrner. Another event you won't want te miss is the Pontiac Nationals North, hosted by the Classic GTO Club of Ontario. It's being held June 10 and il in Simcoe, Ontario, but the money raised wiii be donated te the Chiidren's Wish Foundation in Pickering. The weekend will feature a barbecue, poker run te, Niagara Falls, drag racing and a car show, and its open te aIl GMs, with special emphasis on Pontiacs, Firebirds and of course GTOs. For more information, contact club president Dave Milton in Oshawa at 434-7276. Be sure te mark these on your calendar as weli: May 28 - The Model A (Ford) Owners Club will be holding their annual Safety Day at the Ontario Science Center in Don Milis (take the 401 to the Don Valley Parkway South, eit at Wynford Drive, turn left on Don MUlS Road). A selectien of their vehicleswill be on hand. Rabbites ally wxil leave from the Bayley Plaza in Ajax at 10 a.m. *Cost if$3 per car; for info, write *Box 456, Brooklin, LOB iCO. June 23, 24, 25,- The Antique Truck Society of, Canada wil hoid a show in Kleinburg, o nte anything from a small pickuip te the largest tractor-trailer. For more information on the show or the club itself, write te, P.O. Box 390, West Ill, MiE 4Y9. With the good weather on its way, you'1 notice more and more older cars sharing space on the road. On behaif of ail of us, Md just like te ask a few sinali. favors of you, the motering public. ofyur paralel parldng in front of obeind an old car, please leave a bit of extra space! Some of the eider cars can weigh close te three tons, and they didn't corne with power steering. If youýre riding behind one, make sure you know where the brake lights are. Sometiines theyre very high or iow in the fenders, and very -srnall. We don't want te meet yeu '%y accident." And old cars are mice te look at, but remember your own car first! I've seen more than one accident by a xnotrist whe was se busy looking at the old car, he ran into the car stepped ahead of him! And ni neyer forget the weli-meaning gentleman whe, aiost ran me into a construction zone -- he was looking at my car, and didn't see that niy lane was about te end. 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