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Ray Hackman calls it quits after 27 years in business By PAUL DELEAN Examiner Staff Reporter Ray Hackman came to Barrie in 1950 because he heard that the town needed good auto body shop It doesnt need one any less today but Hackman has had enough of mounting costs and frustrations On June 30 the garage door to his business of 27 years Rays Simcoe Motors Ltd auto body shop closed one last time The decision to shut down had come suddenly one day about five weeks before although the idea has been kicked around in his mind for two years made my mind up pret ty quick It was the frustra tion of being in business and looking at financial state ment saying that there wasnt enough profit to make it worthwhile staying in it just decided to pack it in Hackman explained He is for the moment retired He had come from body shop in Lakehead Ont to found Rays Auto Body 27 years ago The business first months were spent in the back section of the Barrie Press building near the site of Deluxe Taxi After few months the shop moved toa new building at 94 Tiffin Street house was built overhead and then showroom area was added as Hackman decided to sell cars as well as repair them STARTED WITH MORRIS Rays Simcoe Motors Ltd as the business was titled in 1960 started with Morris and Austin products then added the full BMC line Next came the Mercedes and American Motors franchises also brief association with ill fated Studebaker Hackman decided how ever to get out of the sales arena in 1969 The cars were sold and the building rented to Simcoe Sports Car Cull ingford Motors is the buildings latest tenant His experience as car dealer has left Hackman with some lingering opinions one of which concerns the mechanical fitness test He believes that the person trading in car should be the one to produce mechanical fitness test not the dealer July Draw TICKET NUMBER RAY HACKMAN had enough People come in with bucket of bolts all doctored up The guy could have had it towed to within halfaIblock of my place for all Iknow They nail the dealer for mechanical fitness but its the public that frauds the dealer in most cases Hes got to sell their junk LOFTY EXPECTATIONS That was part of the ag gravation So were the publics lofty expectations of what was covered by warran ty the long hours that had to be put in youre married to it people knocking on the door Sundays and weekends After renting out the Tiffin Street premises Hackman found new location for the body shop at 220A Bradford Street behind llonest Joes Motors He carried on busineSS there for eight years before deciding to close down POSSIBLE IIININF FIRST PRIZE NUMBER Hackman 60 is an auto body repairman from the old school He started working on cars back in 1938 when parts straightening not replacement was the name of the game This was especially true during the war years when parts were simply not available Hackman worked on cars nights and weekends while conscripted to the Port Arthur shipyards as welder He got his auto body repair licence in 1950 licence had not been required when he started Haekman enjoyed his work GOOD FEELING If you get something all smashed and straighten it out you get good feeling out of looking at it and saying can you see where that was smashed up Anything worth doing is worth doing right take pride in fixing something that others would say couldntbefixed One of his most memorable achievements was restora tion of Chevrolet of 19505 vintage that was rusted right out in the back Coworkers said the car couldnt be fix ed but Hackman then salesman at the Tiffen Street lot set out to prove them wrong He worked alone couple of hours night on the car after his day in sales for about two weeks He actually cut the vehicle in half and then welded it back together after the straightening Nobody knew she was cut in half But things are not as they were Cars then had better metal more accessible designs says Hackman There was no salt on the roads therefore not as much rust Now theres more replacement than repairing Body men today arent body men but plastic molders Ray Hackman doesnt believe there can be good cheap job in auto body repair good job is not cheap Ive never found anybody who could do it If there is they can do it now because Im not going tobother AIYNT On the librar shelf the enamlner jrlday July8 1977 OLeary reminisces abOut OTtawa Grattan OLeary was political man and his book for the most part is about politics and politicians For most of his life Ottawa was OLearys spiritual as well as his geographical home and politi cians of all parties there paid attention to what he had to say This was big rise from his humble beginnings He was born in the Irish set tlement of Gaspe and his for mal education ended when he was 12 His working career began in local sawmill from which he soon graduated to become an oiler on coastal ship at $15 month They were beginnings he never forgot It says much for Learys personality that his long career Strawberries Pick your own 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