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. 2- PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, July 9, 1996 By Jeff Mitchell automobiles, chopped and [J Port Perry Star hopped up, competed for A Greenbank man's labor of love has resulted in the supremacy. immaculate restoration of a 1950's-era stock car, once "It was wide open," said driven by a racing legend. .Glen, a member of the Glen Tustin fSund the 1937 Fiat that was built and Canadian Historical Racing driven by Ted Hogan -- known as the Westop Whiz Kid Society. "You could run any and the Mighty Mite in his hey days king of the track kind of carburation you at the Canadian National Exhibition and other tracks -=_ wanted, any engines you rusting in an Orangeville junkyard several years ago. It: wanted. Guys even ran was this spring, when approached by organizers of the | hemis." Great American Race, a rally for vintage automobiles" It was Hogan -- who built that runs from Tacoma, Washington to Toronto, that he this car in 1957 -- who finished the restoration. reigned. He was the all-time |¥ With a Canada Day weekend deadline Glen, his dad, feature winner at the regu- lar CNE races, with a total Th . li 7 f of &7, a record that stood e car IS a re IC 0 until racing at the Ex was : : = shut down in '66. He was |. CN = racin h Isto the track champion at the || J ry CNE in 1957 and again in 1960, the year he was killed fromlongago phe vie ow He was a wide-open, lead- and Doug Duncan, former mechanic for Ted #ogan, footed speed freak, who sat "started in April and rebuilt the car, which was cut in in his chopped-down Fiat on half and shortened, and mounted on a tube chassis. a seat yanked from a TTC It was intensive and painstaking, but the result is the bus, strapped in by a single rebirth of a genuine piece of Canadiana. . belt and separated from his The car was on display at the conclusion of the Great racing engine by a firewall Canadian Race, and was a huge attraction for the 25 or that was made from one |. so old-time CNE racers who were on hand. thin piece of tin. He wore a "They were almost in tears," said Glen. "It brought T-shirt and a bowl-shaped back a lot of memories." s helmet with one strap. He "This is the only one they know of in existence." was a legend in his own | What the Fiat is, actually, isa relic of a long-ago period time, and Glen's dad, a driv- == in Teal of auto racing history in Ontario. Hogan ran the car in er himself, helped further Glen Tustin with the restored car. He found it the super modified class on paved and dirt ovals. The that legend. rusting at an Orangeville wrecker's, and has : class was as open as you could get, and a huge variety of "When I grew up as-a kid, returned it to its original glory. LE LBL doit meessseam + Crack wy Sean " : . Asphalt Patchi POT [14 I J » I = =p jf = (4) | =F VI SS VERRAN, CONTESTS: Scugog Island Indy, Specialty Shooters & Prizes Eguy20 STARS ON MARS - Great Rock n' Roll | ee Road Service & guy 27 DJ PETE KNEALE - summer Bash spam Eaupment , MAJOR & PRIVAT 8 AUG. 17 POKER RUN & BEACH PARTY " Aigment - EARS Scugog Island 225 Platten Blvd. 905-985-9763 Monday - Thursday 9am to 8pm Friday, Saturday. ; & Sunday 9am to 9pm | If you know someone with a nig give The Star a call at 5 STE 0] [re a ~~ E Order any 3 item Bigfoote Pizza | Large round PIZZA & SUBS y gat regular price & receive a To Xa Find us fast in : Marble Cake FREE 1 item, 1lb wings the "Yellow ter Street, Port Pe "Fre Delivery ; : Se we wi in a Limited a Pages" ™ RB eid was ay oth offer & 4 coke ONLY Ce 985 -844 8 Area (WR | EES ARRARARAA ARREARS A RR A A ASR AA A AAA AR RR ARR ~