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Shutter Speed: A new start, a new car and more racing!

November 21, 2009

I struggled through until spring and realized I needed to get either back to North Bay or head for Toronto where my parents now lived. My Father had been offered a senior position with the Globe and Mail. It was an offer he couldn’t refuse so they moved to the big city. I decided to [...]

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Trippin’ in the hot banana

September 9, 2008

It’s time once again for The Garage to head to the Pocono Hills Mountains in our quest to bring our readers some idea how their prospective purchases will perform on lapping days and out on the trail. Yeah right! Really, we’re out to get our ya ya’s on! First we’ll slog through a bit of [...]

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Road tripping: Buffalo’s Anchor Bar

May 16, 2008

Having visited Buffalo, New York several times over the years for dance competitions (our kid, not me in case you weren’t sure), it occurred to us that we had never visiting the Anchor Bar. What is the Anchor Bar you ask? Well, for those of you not versed in the history of chicken wings, the [...]

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Connecticut: What a weird place

October 19, 2007

While I’ve only been here a day, Connecticut is weird. Firstly, it has to be the whitest place in the world. That in itself is odd, when you consider how ethnically diverse the place is. It’s hard to describe the vibe here. The closest thing I can compare it to is that it feels like [...]

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Note from the road: Maps? We don’t need no stinkin’ maps!

October 19, 2007

For the first couple of hours, that’s all I saw yesterday. The suddenly, as the Violent Femmes belted out Blister in the sun, the sun broke through and blinded me through the sunroof. It only stuck around for a an hour or so, and then was dreary for the rest of the 9 hour drive.

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IMPA Test Days: Road trip diary

September 5, 2007

The first part of the trip to the Pocono mountains has gone smoothly and we’ve made it from Ontario to Watertown New York. We actually confused the border guard when we said we were heading to the Poconos to road test cars. He tried to figure out if we might need a work visa, but [...]

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