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WMMBYFRE PRSS WEDNESDAY, AFRI 24, 1991, PAGE 19 by JiI Mclntosh Parades -and old ýcars Who doesnt love a parade? The floots, tho marching bands, the clowns, all make for oxciting summer afternoons. 'Most parades now also featurè half a dozen old cars, al spruced up for the occasion and driving rgly down the street.pade came about when a friend called up, some 12 years ago, and asked iff would drive on. of bis cars in a Canada Day parade in Toronto. SincolIdidt ownan old car of my own bock thon,. I quickly a -,. The day dawnedl sunny and very hot, but there seemed tebe a little cloud ovor me when I went te, pick up the car. It was a 1932 Ford hot-rod which was about the nicest thing I could say about it. The wiring looked like it had been don. ini the Dark Ages and the' seat (a plank covered with fcam rubber) didn't move, leaving my ýfoot about two inches shy cf týhe pedals. Still, it was exciting to be prt d'a par"adnd once we found a cushion toput behind me, I sý'tarted it up (holding the- ignitions witch in place,'nceit turned, along -with -the key othierwise) and droveit away. At theoparde sit I was introud te, a young lady dressed, as a clown, who would ride along with me sitting on the backdeck. She attracted a .crowd of kIddios even before the paade got underway, and twice Ihd to, suggest that puttmg out her cigaèret night bo a go idea. Once the parade'got going, I was swept up ini thèe ory 0 f driving past the crowded sidowalks, waving te the people lining the. streets. Everything went very smoothly until a little past the half-way point. The Ford decided that.eoh was enough, and it quit. No amount of tinkering, swearing or praying was goingý to get that infernal thing running again Even my clown jumped ship, finishing the parade in a 19509 Cadillac that seemed to sneer as it puled out to go around me. My glorious day ended with me pushing the -car bock to my friendIs house, where I vowed that nover again would I attempt anything like this. 0 f- course, the following year with a car of my own, I did exactly the same parade. This time, though, I finished the route with no problema and from that moment on 1 wis hooked. I even maniàged oÃ"ne year te convince my husband -- at that time still a fiancé - te accompany me. I drove my '47 Cadillac, whfle he brought hie pink 1957 Caddy. A th!parade site, sitting waiting for eveiything te get underway, I happened te, notice that the car ahead of us was a gloi«usold '19209 Stearns- Now I was no expert on these cars, butý I did know two very important thiuiga about them. One is that Stearns-Knight used what was called a «sleeve-valve? engin., a complcated design in- which the c>ylnder, not the piston, moved.' I also knew ýhat by their very nature, leeve-valve engines burned a lot of bil, most of which came out of the exhaust pipe. 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