Page 37 - Sports Energy News, Cornwall, Issue No 152
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for the Classics
By Casey Leger Chesterville. My love affair with cars started when
I was young, back when my friends and I had far
eptember’s An Eye for the Classics is brought more time on our hands than money in our pockets.
Sto you by John and Manon Locke. They tell We’d scrape together every last dime to buy some
their own story. weathered fixer-upper, then pour hours of fun into
For the Love of the Drive it - just for the sheer joy of hearing it roar to life.
If you’ve ever been out on a country road on Our goal was simple: to cruise up and down County
a sunny afternoon and heard a distant, friendly Road 18, feeling like we were the kings of the world.
rumble growing closer, you might have seen us. A We’d drive those patched-up beauties until they
small convoy of convertibles would have passed sputtered to a halt or until we heard the siren call
you by, their tops down and their passengers lost of a party at someone’s place. I wonder if anyone
in easy laughter. My wife, Manon, has dubbed our still remembers names like Crazy Cryderman, the
little crew the “Topless Gang.” Renwick Boys, the Collins Crew, or the Deserres
A necessary clarification: it’s the cars that are brothers? And let’s not forget Jeff Lydiatt. That was
topless, not us! - And I’m always proud to be right our tribe. Our nightly ritual was a slow cruise along
there in the mix of things, usually from behind Pitt and Sydney Street, always capped off
the wheel of my 2012 Camaro. I’m a country with KFC and perhaps a few beers. Oh, the good
boy at heart, raised right here in the suburbs of
Gallingertown, halfway between Ingleside and Continued on page 40
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