08/19/06…Having decided to take in some different events this summer, Char and I had cleaned up the ’39, thrown in a cooler and cruised over to Abbotsford, about 25 miles from home. This bustling hub city in the Fraser Valley is so named after the Abbots who forded the Fraser River before any bridges, to get to their seminary in Mission many years ago. In a valley much like Medford, the farmlands were the home of dairies, cattle ranches and berry farms. Its often referred to as the ‘Berry Capital of Canada’ where raspberries, strawberries and cranberries grow in abundance. Also like Medford, the land is becoming more valuable than the farming industry and is giving way to housing and light industrial development. The show we attended was hosted by the KMS Tool company and by 10am, over 250 cars are on show in there large lot. Its a hot, blazing, no shade day but we get parked by an old friend I hadn’t seen for over 5 years. He’s as interested in our latest machine as we are in his and after we exchange the latest news in our lives, I notice a small for sale sign on his car. The story is Tom had put this car together for his wife who didn’t like it and said she’d never drive it (grounds for divorce in my book). We went all over the car, an all steel 1946 Ford Super Deluxe convert. model that actually came out of eastern Oregon. Turns out I knew the fellow (now deceased) who had brought it to BC and assembled the rest of the parts to complete the project.
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October 2006 Newsletter
This month’s newsletter has some very interesting articles. [ View ]
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