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• November 25, 2011
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Events & Activities... Nov 26 & 27 – Camosun College Continuing Education’s Marine Basic First Aid, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at Interurban Campus. Meeting Transport Canada’s requirement for fishing, passenger vessel, and other marine industries, upon completion, earn your Marine Basic First Aid certificate plus the skills and knowledge to respond to cardiovascular and breathing emergencies. All course materials included. FMI: http://camosun.ca/ce DEC 2 – Royal Victoria Yacht Club’s Sea of Lights parade of lighted boats. View the decorated boats from prime viewing sites at Cattle Point (7 p.m.), Willow’s beach (7:15 p.m.) or Gyro Park/Cadboro Bay (7:45 p.m.)
Driver of the Week...
Mena Westhaver, Community Programmer for Saanich Parks and Recreation, powerskating coach and founder of the Sole Sisters walk/run clinic for women, drives a 2002 Honda Odyssey. “When the doors open, you never know how many kids or hockey bags will apear!” Continued on Pg. B2
1924 Stutz Sport Brougham pulled from garage after nearly six decades For Vancouver-area classic car buffs, it was a chance to see a time capsule in the form of an 87-yearold car that had been stored for most of its life. The Internet was ALYN EDWARDS buzzing and telephone Classic information was being RIDES exchanged right up until noon on Remembrance Day when the garage doors were finally opened. The 86-year-old owner had built the house in Coquitlam in 1949 – the same year his father had sold him the car for $1. Even then, the 1924 Stutz Sport Brougham was considered a really old car. People in the neighborhood had heard about the old car but few had seen it. It had remained parked inside the closed garage since the early 1950s. Earlier in the fall, Coquitlam classic car enthusiast Dave Waters had gone to the house to check out a garage sale. He had known about the car since the mid 1980s when he had attended another garage sale and was invited to see the old Stutz. This time, it was the owner’s daughter who was holding the garage sale and he inquired if the Stutz would finally be put up for sale. That would lead to the day when more than 100 people crowded into the driveway of the home to see the car finally come out of decades of storage. The history of the car could be seen on two display boards taped to
More than 100 vintage car enthusiasts turned up on Remembrance Day to witness this 1924 Stutz Special Brougham being pulled out of six decades of storage. An early photograph of the 1924 Stutz Special Brougham somewhere in the Vancouver area.
the garage door. In its early days, the 1924 Stutz Sport Brougham had been photographed at the family cottage in White Rock and outside the Coquitlam house when it was under construction in 1949. It was originally light blue and black but somewhere in its life had been painted green. This fully closed sedan was a very luxurious car at a time Continued on Pg. B3
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