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• June 1, 2012
Events & Activities... June 2 – Experience a spellbinding look at Victoria’s past on two wheels with the Greater Victoria Cycling Coalition’s Magical Historical Sites Tour, led by local historian John Adams. The ride, approximately 20 easy kilometres, begins at Selkirk Station (80 Regatta Landing) just off the Galloping Goose trail south of the Selkirk Trestle at 10 a.m. and ends at the same location at about 2 p.m. Bring lunch for the lunch stop. FMI: 250-592-3631. June 3 – Westcoast Motorcycle Ride to Live Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands. Pre-registration June 2, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the CHEK parking lot. FMI: www.vi-ridetolive.ca June 10 – The Vancouver Island Mustang Association and Canadian Tire present the second annual Show & Shine at the Canadian Tire on Admirals Road, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. All Mustangs and Fords welcome, with prizes and Best of Show award. June 13 – Vancouver Island Mustang Association meets, 6 p.m. at the Beaver Lake Picnic Shelter; enjoy a hot dog barbecue by donation before the meeting. All Mustangs and Fords welcome – watch for the cars parked in the grassed area by the picnic shelter. Bring your camera! june 15 to 17 – Father’s Day Seaside Cruizers Show & Shine, Qualicum Beach. FMI: 250-248-1015, www.seasidecruizers.com june 16 – Third annual TouchA-Truck Fundraiser at Western Speedway, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., hosted by the Sooke Co-op Preschool. See fire and police vehicles, concrete mixers, dump trucks, buses and more. Admission: $10/family of four, $15/family of fiveplus; and $5/person (babies under age one are free). Face-painting, crafts, food, bounce house and more. FMI: www.sookepreschool.ca or 250-642-6364, ext. 235.
From father to son: ‘Heirloom’ Ford Fairlane stays in the family It took nearly 50 years, but John Kerluke finally got the keys to his dad’s convertible. His father, Stan Kerluke, was a 27-yearold transplant from a grain farm outside ALYN EDWARDS Rhein, Saskatchewan Classic when he spotted the RIDES yellow Ford convertible in the showroom of Dominion Vancouver Motors on Seymour Street. He had come to Vancouver in 1954 to drive a fuel oil truck for his brother Mike, and had been driving a 1951 Chevrolet torpedo back two-door sedan purchased at Collier’s Motors on nearby Georgia Street two years before. But he really wanted a convertible and the 1951 Ford his father had back on the farm was yellow. The yellow 1958 Ford Fairlane 500 Sunliner convertible would be his with the signing of a cheque for $3,000 plus the $1,200 allowance for the Chevy. “My brother tried to talk me out of buying the car saying: Why do you want a convertible? It rains too much in Vancouver,” he recalls of that day. It was the summer of 1958 and this Sun Gold Ford Sunliner was one special car.
Stan Kerluke hands the keys to his 1958 Ford Fairlane convertible to son John, who was brought home from the hospital in the car.
He loved it so much he would seldom drive it. “In those days, we took the truck home so I would only drive the car on the weekends. In the winter, we worked seven days a week delivering furnace
June 17 – Saunders Subaru Victoria Triathlon & Saunders’ Family Walk at Elk Lake. FMI: www.triseries.ca Send your driving, boating or bikingrelated events to jblyth@telus.net
The 1958 Ford Fairlane 500 convertible parked on 54th Avenue near Main Street in South Vancouver shortly after Stan Kerluke bought it in the summer of 1958.
oil to homes so I wouldn’t use the car at all,” Stan Kerluke says. BC Oil Distributors was located at Main Street and 30th Avenue in South Vancouver, directly across the street from Clarkdale Volkswagen. Every morning, as Stan Kerluke pulled out with a load of furnace oil, he would wave at a pretty young lady who worked at the dealership with her desk just inside the front window. Their first date was in the yellow Ford convertible which was then four years old. “I thought, what a cool car,” Patricia Kerluke says. They used the convertible as their wedding car in August 1962 at a church on Renfrew Street in East Vancouver. The reception was held at the Gai Paree supper club on Kingsway in Burnaby. Son John was born one year later and was brought home from the hospital in the Ford Sunliner. Continued on Pg. B3
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