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goodwood man racing snowmobiles weekender january 11 1986 pll stouffville man playing the lynx the finnish lynx brand of snowmobiles is quickly making a name for itself on the cana dian racing scene whitchurchstouffvilles ed hakonson is part of a business arrangement thats seen sever al machines imported from fin land on a trial basis mr hakonson who operates his own parts and clothing dis tributorship to motorcycle and snowmobile dealers is over seeing a testing project this winter goodwoodarea stockcar driver peter gibbons whos managed by the kennedy road man and sponsored by his cho- ko company has enjoyed some good postchristmas results aboard the lynx gls 3300 mod el in his first crack at sled rac ing mr gibbons came third in a snowcross event at winnipeg man and third again on the owen sound oval finlands pauli piippola who guided the lynx gls to the 1985 scandinavian snowcross championship is here to take on north americas best alongside his uxbridge township col league he had a third place re sult in winnipeg plus other good showings surprise theyre actually doing much better than we thought says mr hakonson we were hoping for placings anysvhere in the top 10 but theyre coming in the top three so far the racers have found the sleds are more suited to the snow than the icy track surfaces common to ontario but the canadianfinnish team has busily made adjustments to the machines in anticipation of the weekends kawartha cup races in peterborough mr piippola returns to his na tive land on tuesday while mr gibbons plans to carry the lynx name through the remainder of the ontario circuit other workhorse lynx mod els are being markettested through various canadian deal erships and snowmobile clubs in april mr hakonson will sit down with officials from manu facturer nordtrac limited of rovaniemi finland to deter mine if and when the line will be introduced to canada with the strong success of lynx snowmobiles in northern europe it seemed only natural to expand to north america according to a company news release from late last year nordtrac limited of finland chose canada home of the snowmobile as its first target market nordtrac is part of the world wide finnish valmet corpora tion which recorded 1984 sales of 1 billion us lynx is the new cat on canadas snowmobile racing scene testing the finnishmade sleds are left to right goodwoods peter gibbons erik ahmasalo research and development manager for nordtrac li mited and racer pauli piippola defending snowcross champion of finland 198385 and 1985 scandinavian titleholder finland sweden norway the trio was pictured at mr gibbons uxbridge township resi dence while preparing for this weekends kawartha cup chris shanahan televisions taken two televisions were recently stolen during a residential break- in on parkway dr police said the house was broken into between dec 31 at 1230 pm and jan 3 at 4 pm landscaping increases value of property weve expanded book jan mar 31 into home improvements p0r our professionals are the best in their fields pruning decking lawn spraying lawn fertilizing sodding landscape design foundation planting interlocking stone retaining walls hedges shrub borders references available complete 1 year guarantee we guarantee r the lowest prices landscaping ceramic tiles cabinet making renovations painting wallpaper call now for a free consultation we accept mastercard anywhere home improvements mastercard 4947072 4947072