B4 - Sunday, September 26, 1982 - North Shore News

THE BIGGEST tire of Canada is this inflatable one which made a brici on the North Shore recently. Hilton Shandler of Apex Tires has his head in the hub, giving an idea of the 30’ tire’s size. (Terry Peters photo)

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The Honourable Jim Hewitt, Minister of Con- sumer and Corporate Affairs and Minister responsible for the Insurance Corporation has announced that I.C.B.C. will be offering for sale its auto repair facility in Surrey.

“The decision to sell Autoplan/ Autobody is a re- affirmation of this govern- ment’s policy to “privatize” wherever practical those facilities that can be handled readily by the private sec- tor,” Hewitt said. “In these particularly. tough times, it makes sense, to us, not to stand in the way of small businesses in order that they can share in all of the available business.”

“The Board of Directors of the Corporation are in agreement that ‘the Autoplan/ Autobody shop served a useful but not critical role in assessing and controlling repair costs,” Mr. Hewitt said.

This indepéndently-oper- ated facility,, with projected 1982 sales of $1.3 million, will be offered for sale by tender in the immediate future.

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Vol. 1

No. 43

26 Sept. 1982

Any Little Old Ladies Out There?

Everything seems to stop for a moment when one drives by eyes tum and heads nod in ap tion hearing tt drive by ts listening to a sound from the st a cherry mint condition T ird or Hudson Homét, and the owner's heart swells with pride If there really ts a disease called auto-envy, t these gleaming artifacts our way past have to be one of the main causes The older o car gets, the more beautiful it seems to become tn our eyes When see ao gleaming maroon 1941 Chevrolet cruise by. they = immediately assume the owner ts entertaining @ fabulously expensive hobby Mere common tolk’ could never dream of This ts true to a limited extent, but It ts nowhere near as bad as tt used to be For instance the parts industry has responded to the Mustang Cult which) flounshes in our society One of the = classk roblems with o classk Mustang 1965 1966) is rust) out around the rear spring hanger Time was when this happened you pretty well had to throw the car away On you could pay Crash Pad fo hand tool a part for you which cost over $300 Now there wma hing of Mustang organ bank that

expensive part can be ordered by phone for as litthe as $30 It used to cost over $1 000 to just get the parts to repair a rust hole in the joor Now it ts a traction of that

Back tn the days when everybod owned a Lincoln green 19)

Chevrolet. a problem arose with rust out in the rear fender quarter panel Back then, if tt happened to you, you were looking at a $300 repair bill for the parts | have good news tor anyone who kept ther Chevy all these years, despite the rust: The after market parts industry has nsen to the

occasion again you can get better than onginal stuff for quess what about $300 If everyone ignored inflaton like this maybe | would go away

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heart and wallet for these tovely old cars and would like to tind the bargam of the centu 1 tone have any answers none hear stores though like the aldo ouple outside Kamloups (who in the summer Of 19949 walked into the local dealer and bought a pick up track off the sthowroor floar On the way home they fell to arguing about who would buy the next tank of gas The arguinent was never resolved and the track sat

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lf you find one, don't buy it on the assumption that all the parts are cheap and that we can pertorm miracles with it Have tt checked oul first’ The last thing we want to dois try and fix up someone s bad buy

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