PAGE 24,.WHMBYFREE PRESSWED$ESDAY, JPNE , 98,,ý9 Racinùg history Page 25 AUT NEW by Jil Mclntosh Love ut first sight Just what is the pleasure of old have neyer met, standing around cars? It niay be the classie body the blue convertible, smillng at styles or the looks you get when the camnera. you drive down the street. But of After the reception in Whitby course there's always the -- where the dise jockey arnived in memroes... and the lighter a 1939 Studebaker (and a guest side. got a cream pie in the face, which Most people will tell you they is, of course, another story), two met their spouses at a party, or friends of ours drove the Cadillaca perhaps while waiting for a bus. to the safety of their own garages, Not me. I met mine one Saturday lest any practical jokers fil themn night in Ajax, when I tookrny'47 with confetti. (The cars escaped, Cadlllac to a "cruise night" there. but my in-laws managed to dump He arrived in his pink 1957 eleven bags of the atuf Caddy, and it was love at first throughout the house. Their days, sight. of course, are numbered.) I loved his car, he -loved mine. Our, firat date was a concert in My car ended up with rny KIGtchener, and we took the '57. friend Jim, himself a owner of On the way back,. crossing eightold cars. Not long before the Toronto at 2 arn., the car' wedding, Jim's wife Louise had generator quit on us, and we were threatened te, leave home if ha stuck on the ide of the 401. bought one more old car, a 0f course we weren't quite warning ail the neighbors knew C la r lk ,prepared for this, and when we about. pooled our resources, we Naturally that was the diacovered we had $3 and one weekend Louise was summoned very obscure credit card between awýa for a business trip. The the ram. Pi ay us. Still, it was better, than neigbora watched as she ,P l ayed nothing, and off we trudged down her car with suitcasesahad drove the amp.away. Next morning, the There was only one towtruck driveway contained an antique company ini ail of Toronto that car they'd neyer seen before. Jim would accept nxy card, and expiained, but until Louise came Whitby's Tom Clark pla everything went fine until I had back a week later, not one of sixth in the Player's Challei to explain juat what it was the them believed luss toiy. series race over the weekend were picking up. It wouldn't have hile the lighter ide of old Shannonvilie, the best result, been a problem, except that the cars is haif the fun, there's for the young racer. number-one aong in every corner another aide, too. It's great te, Clark had qualified l2th of the free world that week was make people sniile; it'a alao the race. Teammate Rar Bruce Springsteen's pink fantastic te see the look in McDonald of Oshawa finisl Cadillac. The dispatcher almost aomeone'a eye as they corne across ninth after qlualifvinff second. hung up onl me, and after P'd a car that reminds them of the convinced him, it took him one they learned te drive on, or Clark had previosylt another half.hour to convince the the one they bought after coxing the Players Challenge att driver t eaven aervice the cail. home from the war, or perhaps Montreal Grand Prix receri Two people thia crazy can only the one that reniinds them of after having qualified 25th. be meant for each other, and a someone. Clark, 22, a driver fort couple of years later, wa dacided One niight I took the Cadillac te McDonald racing team, pass te gat married. Firat we picked a a cruise night in Scarborough. As date that wouldn't conllict with I was walking around, a friene any important car shows, and stepped me and teld me tha1 then we made arrangements. I someone was fascinated by rn> was adamant. Iwas goi gte the car and wanted te meet thea e chapel in my Cadillac, and no one owner. the wedding, done up in dress and had neyer been in the area and bouquet, I drova myself and before; ha was waiting for a 4 w ' the matron of honor to friand te pick him up, and had and the best rnan brought up the aome tirne when he'd noticed my L Wf rear in the '57. car. Hia dad had owned one jus Brett Osier of Whitby w, The photographer was a friand like it, a comment rd neyer hearid another Cam-Am kart raci who knew about our hobby. He befor, sinoe my car is a very rare series event recentiy. arrived at the chapel early, before model. OsIer won ail three heats the wedding pior to ours was Ha teld me that in 1951, bis the event at Leamington, On finished. That bride and groom father had bought a car just like the first of the six-race seenes. had arrived in a stunning 1953 mine frorn bis next-door neighbor, Cadiilac Eldorado, which was who had purchased it new. He'd At a meet in Avon, N.Y., Jui parked outside the chapel steps. always wanted a Cadillac and 9 and 10, he was second over. Our photographer saw the car drove it everywhere. But hie died In the third event on June 17 and assurned it was with us. suddenly ini 1953, and his son Goodwood, Ont., Osier drove1 Subsequently, our wed&dng lumà - Briggs.-powe-red kart te anoti sixth in r'?s Cha len-ge aced yet for tndy shed iin the ntly the ;sed o;on ,ing Sin une -ail. rat his >er the rnost cars in the field in his first race of the season. McDonald had trouble at the start of the race with a biown tire and was neyer able to catch the leaders. Both wili be racing throughout the summer with their next appearance at the Toronto Indy Juiy 21-23. Clark sayc this wili be his last year on th e Players Challenge Series. He p lans a move te the Formula 2000 series. McDonald was aIso in the For- in Shannonville, and finished lOth. While racing this summer, Clark and McDonald will also' hold a schooi te teach the art of racing. They are in Cayuga, near Hamilton, thia -week for give instruction. Anyone aged l6years or eider can caîl 579-6350 for more infor- mation. New info service Iiia zLA1 rac £vr 011e'=n hu The Auto Worker (Oshawa) Credit Union is providing a new information service to, its rnem- bership under the titie 'Financial Fitness.' t ak esThe service is free of charge k e s and offers borrowers videa cas- settes on personal financial plan- ning. Topeics available are: savng retplanning for retirement, ment, and insurance. A guide- book containing additional infor- OsIer also competes i the mation on the subjects accorn- World Karting Association, panies each cassette. North East Gel d Cup series in "WVe have become aware of the U.S., finishing seventh in his growing public interest in every- first race. thing connected with persenal He will again compote in that financial _planning,." says Auto series June 30-JuIy 3 at Avon, Workers Credit Inion president N.Y. Hu hl Armstrongnauatec- His older sister, Macie, also "It seemed onlyntrl ocn compotes in Can-Arn, in the centrate our energies on the senior Honda class. She has development of an information 1 veptIPcl- pplFtj)vtfx n s es r ré* er. ad useful to our m em bers., y WHITRY FREE, PRESS