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WHITY FR-EE PRESS, WE-DNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28,1990, PAGE 33 Lese prinng w"Il alleviïate downtown parkingt problems By Mike Kowali Recent action taken to, alle- viate parking probleme in down- town Whitby appears to ho ýwork- ing Toncuclhard Monday. Counlor JeBugelli said Aibertine hits home FROM PAGE 12 Susan Lowery as Abertine at her most volatile, at 40. She breathes fire and. life into the character with her anger. I, wat- ched her performance ivith awe and envy Dorothy Little, who piays Albertine at 50, brings ta lier performance a recognizable determination te ho happy. She is the most stereotypical of the Albertines. Joan Roantree's Performance of Albertine at 60 was hardeat for me te watch. It vas well acted and, for me, mirrored a painful reality that at first I could only glimpselat. MaryVo1Ã"lmer as Abertine at 70. She brought te ler zharac- Usged cars FROM PAGE 23 boans. This service is available for $5 through MCCR's personal property security. registration brandi at many land registry offices. Numbers are mn thie phono book. * Look along the surface of the car for ripples and color changes which may idicat body work lias been done. * Nover buy a car withoiit test driving it fhrst. If'tho seller dis- courages you from doing so for axer reason, walk away. -Always insist on a written sales areent. It shauld i- clude te names, addresses and signatures of the buiyer and the seller, the price, the VIN, the odometer '.reading and the.-date.. Any speciai .agreements, eams and prnses should also ho adderoL For more information or te order copies of ips on Buyig a Car and Rust Inhibition, contact the miistry's Consumer Infor- mation Centre at 555 Yonge St. Toronto, Ontario M7A 21-6, (416i 326-8555 or telI free at 1-800- 268-1142. Ontario residents wýitli an 807 area code may cail the 416 nunihor coliect. The TDD/. TY lino for the hearing/speecli impaired is (416) 326-8566. ter compassion and, if not love, aCcceptan ce. Patty Gilhooly, who -piays Madeleine, Albertine's sister, was unforgettable. I can stili see hier innocent eyes mixed with pain, curiosity anc1 compassion, struggling to understand h r sis- ter. I imagine this play was not only challenging for the actors and director Carolyn Wilson, but also from the point of view of staging and set desi*gn. Five decades are depicted, ail on stage at the same time, intertwining. The set was simple and unobtru- sive while providing definition and direction for the audience. This is a powerful prýesen- tation, weli worth experiencing. The final performances of Abertine in Five Times are March 2 and 3. Tickets are avail- able at Merle Norman Cosmetics in the Oshawa Shopping Centre, Information Oshawa, or at the arts resources centre where it is performed. Show time is 8 p.nî. PALCT takes stepa FROM PAGE 25 «It's blood - undeniocratic," said Parish. ý«9me people like to operate under secrecy. It's a crime. «We have to stand up for our environaiental rights. 110w can we lot them get away with this. The powers of governinent have to be challenged and can only ho challenged in court." 'PACT feels that there are alternatives te entering into the agreement with Metro and using the Pl site, but that the Region is just not exercising those options. "For them te pretend they don't have an alternative is just not true. For some reason certain people in council want to take Metro'sgarb age to kem in hod with Metro. It's bad judgment and it's ruining the environmient. If they don't h ave more respect for the Region of Durhami, they should not h ave their jobs.» council's decision to increase parking fines and reinstitute leased 'parking indicates that problems created by the* free parking bylaw *«may ho going ouhconi gave officiai approval Monday to tripling parking fines from $5 to $15 and offering leased paknti s just a formality. aknti a A consensus of both the ope- rations and planning committees last week allowed.-town staff to put both recommendations into action. Operations committee chair- man Bugelli told council that, prior to mnstituting free parking there were 88 people leasing spaoes in municipal lots.- When. council began toying with the idea of offering leasing again,. 79 expressediteresti resunnng their beases. However, as of last Thursday, Towil staff have determined that a maximum nf 61 people would renew. "We have. in exceas of 35 spots today if anyone wants themn and we can add more if need be,» said Bou&llor Tom Edwards said Cruising Clcwsics: .,ftom PAGE 19 these seemed to ho the only cars over built witlipesonalities put i rigliht Mther factory. To overyone's surpris, they also turned out te ho the two host-selling cars in history. For those who don't hleve in marketing strategies, take a moment te compare them. They were 50 years apart and built in two different countries, yot their characteristics 'were virturally identical. They were betli cheap te buy and easy te fi ("repair" just isnt the right word). Both were homely, te the extent that one manufacturer, realizing that this was part of its charm, ran extenive ad campaigns telling èveryone juat how ugly it was. In all the years. they wero built, the only stying changes were minor cosmetic adjustments, with the general shape nover varying. Bath were immediately give nicknames by the public that became so popular the whole country knew them -- something no other car bas ever had. Both were, drafty and didn't heat well. Neither had gas gauges on their earliest models. And both even had distinctive-sounding engines -- if you go te a car show, close your eyes and isten. Above the drone and roar of ail the other cars, you can find these two just by the sound they make. The earliest of the two, the lord Model T,' was the car that put North America on wheeis. Its price eventually dropped te $295 when comparable cars sobd for $700. The running joke was znaz it couid ho fixed with ba]ing wire some residents' have told himi they can now frnd parking spots downtown since council imposed a three-hour limit and* increased fines. Since parking spaces seem to be more, available, councillor Marcel Brunelle argued that a $15 parking fine would serve no purose. Fd rather h ave peopar n i a parkingf lot and *e slape with a $5 meJ then have hn park on the street where the bylaw is flot as rigidly enforced.» Council abolislied parkingË fees last year to avoid paying anew tax to the iprovincial govprnmenit. 'Personality'-car and glue, which wasn't far from the truth. Although it was called a 'T' by its owners, it was more often known as a "ln Lizzy or "llivver". It spidery carriage-like wheebs and sturdy steel body made it perfect for getting over the poor roads of the day, which were often more mud than roa-d. Since mucli of America was rural, many iàzzies ended their days as tractors (it was possble te buy. a special bub for the back wheels; a boit could ho slipped over ti hub and used te power fiîrm machiery). More than a few also flnishod' up as chicken Con"s -- and that' a lot of chicken, Eince 15-millioniàzzies were eventually built. The T was roplaced by the Model A of 1928. This more sophisti-cated, stylized car becoine known as "Henry's Lady", after Henry Ford. But the Lady was more tho thoatre-goor or the* city car- izzy was the. frokle-faced tomoy- that everyone knew où The KdF Wagen, on the othor hand, was nover known by its rosI name once it came te North America. Right away it was the Volkswagen Beetle -- the "Bue'. It took mômne lime for it te catch on; in 1949, its firat year in America, only two were sold. But when it was flnably phased out, it had sold 20-million copies the only car ever te top Henry FordIs early success. Unlike Model T owners, who bought the car because it was cheap transportation, Bug owners seemed te, have as much personality as the car. Tiiere was always one professor at college who had one, and a hardy seul ho or she was, too- in a Canadian winter, not only did you wear a snowsuit while you were driving, but you alse carried an ice scraper, which was for the inside of the window. Volkswagen actually sold the Beetle by poking fun at it: ada showed them floating in pools and being dropped from hlicpto The owners took it one stop further. Thousands of noveity items were produced speciflcally for Beetles, including giant keys for the trunk, vinyl stick-on flowers (best on pink and purple Bugs, which were standard factory colore) and even complote hood and trunk its that would turn the lowly Beetie* into a pit-ized Rolis Royce. (The early kits had the flying lady on the rad, but Water nes came lady-ls when Rails Rcoyce took the. 6an 'curerste court. Seme they badn't bothered te check if ah. was Patented or not -- ahe was.) Minl the per.onality from the. factry"henomenon happen again?]Perhase if a single car can flnd its way into the hearts of millions of car buyers. Until then, I can ondyhop that these- February b abs will end before my Buick finds a new mornig trick for Marchl If your car bas personality and it's a model year 1958 or older, plan te, attend the Canadian Street Rod Nationals held July 6-7-8 i Iroquois Park in ht With 205 cars signed up alreac; it's looking te ho a big sho;w. You can oeve time and money by pre-registering for an applica- tion, write to Canats 90, Box 456, Brooklin, Ontario LOB iCO. See you theref! 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