Wednesday, July 28, 2021
Southpoint Sun - 17
POPULAR LOCAL BASEBALL TEAM
WHEATLEY — This Wheatley baseball team featured many well known names of the area. The photo appears to be from about 1951 or 1952. Back row: Orval Kimball, Neil Campbell, Dwain Sheldon, Darwell Welsh, Kenneth Phibbs, Lyle Manery and Sydney Chase. Middle row: Murray Musgrove, Allan Wright, Johnny Bailey, Harold Dundas, Nick Beleutz, Harold Malott, Wayne Reid. In the front row are Chuck Pews, Bill Trussetter, Howard Trussetter, Ronald Shilson, Bill Beattie and Mate Nelson. Photo courtesy of Eeda Bradt
1952 Pontiac Fleetleader is his favourite Roderick Sergiades of Port Hope owns over half a dozen classic cars but his all-time favourite is his all-original Oshawa-built 1952 Pontiac Fleetleader four-door sedan. “Roddy” grew up in Toronto and was 28 years old before he got his driver’s license. Until then, he walked everywhere and rode the TTC. In 1994 he suddenly saw the car of his dreams and bought it. Now he had to get his license if he wanted to drive it. The test took place
THE OLD CAR DETECTIVE Bill Sherk
near College and Spadina in downtown Toronto and he drove his car for the test, even though his car was 42 years old at the time. He wondered what his examiner would think about him using a car so old for his test. She reassured him that it was okay and even confessed that she had taken her test behind the wheel of
a 1946 Pontiac! As soon as he got his license, he began driving this car everywhere except in winter. A popular spot was the annual car show in Cobourg, where the attached photo was taken. The man standing beside Roddy’s Pontiac in 2007 was Mr. Fax Beatty, who worked at General Motors in Oshawa in December of 1951 when Roddy’s car came along the assembly line. Mr. Beatty was delighted to see this car after more than 50
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years since he saw it being built. The first Pontiac came out in 1926 as a less expensive companion car to the Oakland. This was dictated by GM President Alfred P. Sloan, who believed that the company should build a car for every pocket and purse. So popular did the Pontiac become that Oakland was discontinued by the end of 1930. Restored examples of Pontiacs are still in big demand – and as soon as the pandemic is behind us, we’ll 1952 Pontiac with a man who saw it being built.
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