LIFESTYLES ‘Oodies’ of vintage vehicles bring back fond memories WEATHER GOTCHA? Visitors getting mouldy? Maybe it’s just yourself, wanting distraction from sog. In any case, you need to take cover and have a pleasant time at it. I know a place. Head for the B.C. Transporta- tion Museum out at Cloverdale, and relive your salad days. It’s open by 10 in the morning, and besides the many old vehicles, from a one-horse shay to W.A.C. Bennett’s official 1968 Cadillac, there are other attractions. Pleas- ant hospitable people with time to chat, several barns full of antiques and crafts you can walk to, places for a snack or a meal, and a whole bunch of country air. There’s a modest entry fee for the museum, because a fot goes on behind the scenes. You might be interested in that, too, because the operation relies heavily on volun- teer help in a number of areas. You could maybe restore the brass fittings on one of those old Studebakers, or work on the wood trim of a couple of magnificent hearses, just for examples. Special events, too, extra shows that give the exhibits an airing, need people with the time to put in to planning and polishing. It was the old cars I wanted most to see, but the trucks are equally reminiscent and _ there’s even a couple of little old aeroplanes. There’s a very rare White automobile, a steam-driven version from 1906, then converted to gasoline in 1911. A very rare bird, indeed. There’s one of those bicycles with iron wheels that put you up on a seat five feet off the ground. And an 1890 Studebaker Phaeton buggy — ‘“‘one horsepower,’’ the ticket on it announces. Doctors and mail carriers used those. There’s a 1907 hearse in its origina! impressive condition, wood carvings, bevelled glass, tas- sles and silver-plated lamps intact. A 1913 Studebaker looks as big as a house — indeed, one marvels at the size of all these cid cars, there would surely be no room for them Eleanor Godiey THE VINTAGE YEARS in today’s traffic. There’s a Lincoln limousine with a V12 engine, really, which sold for the outrageous sum of $4,700 new. It would carry seven passengers in roomy luxury, on tires wearing the widest white- walls you've ever seen. There’s a 1920 Chevy truck with an all-wood body. You'll love that racy 1929 Packard with its uphr!stered rumble-seat — two spares, on that one, wire wheeled. You just don’t get class like that any more. The 1924 Oldsmobile thoughtfully car- ried a thermometer on _ its radiator, and there’s a 1929 Nash most lovingly kept going by hand-crafted parts. Environmentalists will applaud the 1912 Detroit Electra, powered by alkaline batteries that would carry you for 50 miles at 15 miles per hour. 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There are oo- dles of vehicles displayed, and ev- idence everywhere of the respect everyone feels for these splendid old relics. 1 felt like a splendid old relic myself, when faced with a Pierce-Arrow roadster, big as a tank, just like the one in which I was driven to Seattle in 1936, all the way down the Chuckanut. And an enormous Franklin, with its arched hood — chap | knew had one, you needed a Step-stool just to get up onto the running-board. Oh, you’d forgotten about run- ning-boards! What about those mechanical iruck-signal arms that flopped left or right? Forgotten those, too, have you? There’s farm equipment tying about between the two exhibit barns, but we didn’t stop to caress the harrow — I married a city boy. 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