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• June 8, 2012
Events & Activities... 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. June 17 – Saunders Subaru Victoria Triathlon & Saunders’ Family Walk at Elk Lake. FMI: www.triseries.ca June 17 – Cumberland Bike Festival, part of month-long activities celebrating all things bicycle, will coincide with Car Free Sunday in the Comox Valley. FMI: www. cumberlandbc.org Continued on Pg. B4
Hot rod club set to launch 25th annual old time drags at Ashcroft This weekend (June 8 to 10), George Criddle will aim his 700 horsepower 1933 Willys coupe race car down the quarter-mile Eagle Motorplex Drag Strip outside Ashcroft for the ALYN EDWARDS 25th year in a row. Classic His car is capable RIDES of going the quartermile distance from a standing start in just over nine seconds. The highly modified 80-year-old Willys coupe will be travelling approximately 225 kilometers per hour (140 mph) when the car trips the timing device at the end of the track. The 67-year-old driver says he has an ongoing need for speed. Criddle, whose business is rebuilding automatic transmissions, originally built his Willys coupe into a street rod from a pile of pieces purchased at a swap meet 30 years ago. He traded a rebuilt transmission and torque converter for the project car. He used his car to tow a tent trailer to hot rod meets around the Pacific Northwest. When the Langley Loafers began their Oldtime Drags at the newly opened Eagle Motorplex Drag Strip in 1988, Criddle was there with his drag car and he hasn’t let his foot off the accelerator since. “I’ve been at every one and I’ll be there once again,” he enthuses. “Over the years, I’ve just been putting more power in the tube chassis. You just get hooked on speed.”
George Criddle launching his 1933 Willys at the Mission Drag Strip.
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the oldest hot rod clubs in the country. The Langley Loafers Hot Rod Club was conceived in a supermarket parking lot in April 1957. A group of young car enthusiasts had gotten together after seeing similar car clubs start up in other communities. John Halvorsen was at the first meeting and did the design for the original aluminum Langley Loafers plaque that full members would hang below their rear license plate. “There were a dozen or so car crazy guys in town with modified custom cars that got the idea to form our own club,”
His engine is a Ford 351 Windsor stroker which has a 434 cubic inch displacement and will lift the front end of the Willys coupe off the drag strip pavement when the “Christmas tree” timing light turns green. The Oldtime Drags competition for pre-1972 cars is held at drag strips in both Ashcroft and Mission. Last year, Criddle got knocked out of first place in the hot rod category in the last race. Criddle and 30 other hot rod drag racers have started their own class and have signed up sponsors including Big Rig, Seattle Tool Canada and Lucas Oil. The Oldtime Drags are run by one of
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