WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26.1987, PAGE 13 rBRIAN'S Family Restaurant (formorly Star'Burger> Speclallzing ln: *Homemnade Burgers *Steak on a Kaiser *Homemnade Fries *Fresh G round Coffee Mon. - Sat. 6:00 arn -11 pmn Sunday 10 arn - 10 pm 900 Brock et. N. Whltby 668-3711 By DONNA DONALDSON A trip to the past could be dloser than Wlitby residents think. Fawcett Motor Carniage Com- pany at 106 Palmerston Ave., Whit- by, restores late model andantique cars, some with interesting backgrounds behind them. The business* was started by Ron Fawcett i 1962, and has been at the same location sice 1966. III lived ini the house beside the shop, which started my interest i cars," says Art Carty, who worked for Ron Fawcett over the years, and joined Fawcett's son Peter in partnership i1981. The partners buy, restore and seil antique, and late model automobiles.' Fawcett says mechanical parts of cars are usuaily the most dif- ficuit to corne by, but body parts can be fabricated.. "The most chailenging car we worked on was a f938 Dela Haye, a French car. There were no parts available for it, we had to make everything, " says Carty. The two find their cars ail over Canada and the United States. Recently Carty flew to Chicago to look at a car, but it didn't pan out. That's ail a part of being in. this kind of business. "«We advertise extensively. We just sold a car to a chap in Ger- many and i Holand," says Carty. The newest car the pair have is a 1971 Ford Cobra Tonino, and their oldest is a 1912 Model T Depot Hack. 0f the many cars they have for salle, prices range from $7,500 up to $25,000 for a 1956 Corvette. " IWe do late model Corvette work, and we just fiished a 1964 Mercedes for a local customer. We do anything and everything as far as antique and classic," says Car- ty. Both proprietors enjoy their work, and there is a lot 0f it. Carty says they are booked ahead 12 mon- ths of the year. Pawcett's favorite car is his own ~771 A rde to the past personal 1910 Model T Ford, an earlY brass car made i Canada . . that he's had since 1974. The Model T won first place in a car show at .4 the CNE in 1985. A Fawcett enters, some automobiles ini car shows, and is a member of the Model T Club Inter- national and the Historical Automobile Society of Canada. The Fawcett Company also has at 1914 R.S. McLaughlln truck that was built i Oshawa. McLaughlin was the founder of General Motors. In England the car was known as a "Dominion Built Car" and was the choice of royalty. Thirteen years ago, Bemito Mussolini's car, a Lancia, was brouglit to Fawcett Motors by a museum i Niagara Fails, part of the 'Cars of the Great, display. Many famous cars have passed through the workshop, including a Kissel White Eagle Speedster owned by Jack Dempsey. It was one of two cars of that make known to exist, and eventually sold to Nether Cott. They will be restoring a 1923 La France fire engine, that had once belonged to the Toronto Fire Department, for a client in Toronto.I Rýecently Fawcett refurbished* a 1947 Cadilac Series 62 convertible, and sold it to the Zellers Club. The club wil be giving the car away in a > contest, and have tagged the car with an appropriate retail value of $50,000. "Right now muscie cars are popular with the younger population. We are doing more and more restoration for it," says Car- ty. Muscle cars are high performan- ce 4-speeds and convertibles from the 1960's and 70's. The partners have been awarded with many plaques and trophies for their work, and have been honored for the restoration and preser- vation of historical automobiles. ."It's good work and it's always a challenge, " says Fawcett. ART CARTY (1) and operate P well-known Peter Fawcett business that both say always presents car restoration a challenge. Free Press photo TH CRYLR INGvI HAVEDONEITAGAIWWA. WL~ .Ub TRRER So complete, ail it needs is you. TABLE 0F CONTENTS Trying the Tracer See p. 15 Auto insurance debate See p. 16 rLEASE TOOWNJ Ail Makes A uto -Leasing Chrysier, GM, Ford, Imports You name It, we lease t r66*3000 You'lU four rates' 209 Dundas St.W. Whitby Ajax 686-1642