Ontario Community Newspapers

Whitby Free Press, 8 Oct 1980, p. 20

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PAG 2. ENSAYR ,STOERV 90 ICEB FE .0;,AL M. ., ES e FRT YPWIE. Renais Saes*0Sevic 40 . nds teeeWst290*afe thAe M 'RESS Vmntage car dealer gives w-alk down memory tane WHITBY CERAMICS Learn a Fasclnatlng Hobby! CLASSES COMMENCING Thursday Afiternoons 1I 3:30 p.mi. 10 Weeks- $3000 REGISTER NOW! 1450 Hopkins Street 668-6941 Tues. - Sat. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mon. - Thurs. 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Ron Faw-ett, owner of W Company, is seen here drivinI during this year's County Tom CONT'D FROM PC. 17 garage that is at the corner of Palmerston and Brock St. N. in Whitby. Two of the Fawcett boys are developing an expertise in the restoration process and Mrs. Fawcett ably assists her husband in sales development. Not ail vintage car buffs are ready buyers, but they might be and there is a lot of Iooking, stroking and shop- rhitby's Fawcett Motor Carniage His passenger g a mint condition 1909 Model 'A' thotise. wn Carnival Parade. ping around the Fawcett garage, visitors are always welcome. A walk through the Fawcett garage is like a trip down memory lane. There they are, the best of the cars you remember so well, from days gone by, in various stages of restoration, and repair. It is not only a beautiful sight to see the 10 Fawcett mechanics at work, on these automotive beauties but the small is marvellous as well. is Mr. Peter Perry for 1979, George Lof- -Free Press Photo by Stephen Greenaway The odors of cleaning materials and fresh lacquers mix to provide ideal atmoshperic con- ditions for the restoration work that is underway and for selling the vehicles. Canadians are buying vin- tage cars for tV same reasons that they ai )uying fine art, antique arniture and silver. They want e 4thing tangible for their iio dollars that buy less of verything as time goes by. The Fawcett garage ri Whitby is part of the M( o Toronto market for vint.- cars and amercian bu' e s shop the Canadian mi - -t as readily as they d, r own market, south i ne Canda/U.S. BORDER. As in other similiar ac- tivities the problem is not primarily in selling the product, but in finding an on- going source of high quality vintage cars some of which may still be hidden away in the barns and driving sheds of the Whitby area. e mstlquie e sock L_ 683-1968 1 LEASE EXPI . RED ON LY 3 WEEKS TO GO!

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