1st Anniversary Issue! MAGAZINE HISTORY • HAPPENINGS • HUMOUR • HELP SPRING 2021 BILL BRACK: BUMPER CROP John Wright interviews one of Don Nichols owns and restores Canada’s most succesful racers. award-winning vehicles of all kinds! BIG BOAT STUFF Another colossal announcement by a European giant-maker NORTHERN FORD Tim Miller tells us about the VIEW FROM THE SADDLE: Ford Motor Company’s first BIKING OUT WEST out-of-country experience! Epic motorcycling among the More Fading Aero History majestic scenery and roads of Another reflection on some the American west. once-great aircraft facilities. AUTO • AERO • AQUA SPRING 2021 1 OERU OET T O OETO 0 P P L P www.picocanada.com O O AAA T A A A Construction E HA I M 2 MAGAZINE HAPPENINGS • HISTORY • HUMOUR • HELP SPRING 2021 3 CONTENTS Note from the Publisher From the Publisher................................................Page 5 MAGAZINE HAPPENINGS • HISTORY • HUMOUR • HELP SPRING 2021 Something completely different and please tell on us! OUR FIFTH ISSUE AND SECOND YEAR Volume 2 Number 1 Sort of Relevant Things......................................Page 6 MOTO|OLOGY MAGAZINE is published quarterly online by Advercom Consulting Announcements, news and other stuff as an alternative transporation/aviation/motoring/motorsport resource for the technical PUBLISHER’S enthusiast, history buff and collector. The contents of this publication are the opinions and Readers Speak....................................................Page 8 views of the authors of each article and the respective advertisers and may not represent Reader’s comments and feedback the views or standpoint of the publishers, their management, staff or associates. While we undertake careful editorial and judicious review of all material submitted, Happenings.........................................................Page 9 the publishers can not in any way be held responsible for any errors or omissions which An update on selected events and goings on. AND NOW FOR SOMETHING Photo by Catharine Barker may occur. We reserve the right to print a correction or retraction as the sole means of correcting such oversights. Passages..........................................................Page11 Doug Switzer, All contents Copyright ©2021 Advercom Consulting. No part of this publication may be Saying good-bye Moto|ology Publisher reproduced in whole or in part without the express written consent of the publisher. MESSAGECOMPLETELY DIFFERENT! Contributors for this Spring.................................Page13 Contributions are always welcome. Material is required no later than the 1st of Our dedicated contributors for this issue the month preceding the publication date. Send all submissions to: AUTOOLOGY [email protected] | Race Cars Unlimited........................................Page 18 e’ve had some very nifty stories on cars, airplanes, opportunity to be towards the front of the queue. Couple that PUBLISHER John Wright’s interview with Bill Brack boats, motors and even trains, but we haven’t with a bumbling delivery and implementation plan at both the Doug Switzer, Advercom Consulting BUMPY RIDE........................................................Page 24 had anything quite as charming and off-the-cuff federal and provincial levels (at least here in Ontario) and we EDITORIAL ADVISOR Royce Rumsey gives us a whimsical look at a totally different electric vehicle Was amusement park rides. Not until now! Sooo... in this issue, are lagging behind the rest of the developed world in getting Emily Atkins CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS The Art of Racing in the Rain:Observations....Page 34 our esteemed contributor, Mr. Royce Rumsey sent along from shots in the arm. Tim Miller, Royce Rumsey, Doug Switzer, John Wright, Peter Viccary, Ken VanWyck Peter Viccary talks about seeing a dice in the rain, from on the track! his secret haunts on the left coast a wonderfully photographed Now, with that said, at the time of writing this (early March) CONTRIBUTING WRITERS View From The Saddle:Heading West! PART 1.....Page 42 and conceived report on a fully restored and completely things are seemingly picking up. Vaccine doses are finally Tim Miller, Royce Rumsey, Doug Switzer, Ken VanWyck, Ken VanWyck takes another motorcycle journey, this time an epic trip out west! operational... wait for it... bumper car! The blue beauty on our arriving, although in limited quantities. Most, if not all seniors Peter Viccary, John Wright When Ford Had a Better Idea............................Page 56 following pages was lovingly restored and I guess you could in extended care facilities have been vaccinated and most, if ADVERTISING SALES & INFORMATION even say it was “hot-rodded” in that it’s been modified to not all caregivers and healthcare personnel have been taken [email protected] Tim Miller tells us about Ford’s first international expansion run off-track with the power provided by six, yes, six deep- care of. We still need to get the frontline workers and suppliers DESIGN AND LAYOUT AERO|OLOGY Doug Switzer, Advercom Consulting cycle Optima batteries. Now this is an electric vehicle with a immunized and we are just starting to get the seniors in the There It Is... Gone ................................................Page62 difference! YOIKS! Read all about it on page 24. general public vaccinated. The whole process is going woefully ONLINE SERVICES Disappearing Act: our old aircraft industry landmarks are slowly vanishing Lori McCabe, LCM Web Services slow with general reports both from the media and the various AQUA|OLOGY CONTACT US PLEASE TELL ON US! levels of governments saying we won’t have things in full swing Obviously, if you’re reading this, you’ve found us online! To become an advertiser, please The Flying Boatmen..........................................Page 67 I’m also making an earnest appeal for you all to help us until at least mid-summer. contact us at [email protected] Our courtesy link to websites of the 50’s marine display team & FeatherCraft Boats To submit articles and photography as a contributor, please email us at: boost our readership. While the number of “Moto/ology-ists” What this bodes for the resumption of “normal life” is fairly [email protected] Doubly Big: WinGD’s New Record! .................Page 68 is growing, we’re still not reaching anywhere near the number obvious, as there really can’t safely be a lowering of defences The noted manufacturer of gigantic ship engines scores another amazing win! of folks that we could or should. So, to that end, I’m making a and a relaxation of restrictions on movement and socializing Mailing address: 47 Mary Street, Georgetown, ON L7G 4V7 Canada Moto|ology Magazine is published online quarterly by Advercom Consulting. Copying for other Big Ships Bring Big Changes............................Page 70 direct, old-fashioned appeal to all our existing readers to please until a larger percentage of the population is immunized and than personal use, or of contents not owned by Advercom Consulting, without the express CMA CGM’s new mega-container ships are ecologically more friendly than ever! help us recruit new readers. Like an evangelist of old, please this doesn’t look to be happening before the fall of 2021. Now permission of the publisher or any other copyright owner, is expressly prohibited. The ideas, opinions and suggestions expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those OTHER|OLOGY help to bring more into the fold! If all of my esteemed readers if there is a sudden increase in the supply of vaccine doses and of the publisher. Photography and illustrations are used by permission of the artist(s) and out there could bring 2 more friends in and get them to sign up a rapid improvement in government efficiencies (that sounds are protected by copyright. The acceptance and display of advertising in this publication Up & Coming ....................................................Page 74 does not constitute any endorsement by Advercom Consulting or the publishing staff. What’s up for our summer issue for their free subscription, we would soon reach the numbers like a bit of a stretch!) for administering those doses, things needed to allow us to bring our ad revenues into line. With could get better sooner, but I think we’ll have to wait and see MORE MOTO|OLOGY ONLINE www.motoology.com that accomplished, we could actually pay our long-suffering on that one. Governments have rarely been the shining stars contributors and entice them into bringing us even more of efficiency or capability. I mean, up here in Canada and in Classified Ads: http://motoology.com/classifieds/ ABOUT OUR Classified ads can be submitted through the motoology.com website or sent directly to: interesting, unique and unusual stories of technical wizardry, Ontario in particular, the government legalized marijuana, but [email protected] COVER history and accomplishment. So please, beg, bribe, push, cajole, legalizing didn’t mean emancipation. The government in effect, Please send material to att’n. Moto/ology classifieds. Don Nichol’s cheeky little do whatever you can to get two or more of your friends to sign became the new dealer as it took over the distribution and FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK 1950’s Dodgem Bumper Car up – and if they tell two friends, and then they tell two friends licencing of the “industry”. Guess what, they’re having difficulty is a playful reminder of happy and so on and so on...(Kind of sounds like an old 1982 ad for supplying a quality “product”, they’ve lost billions of dollars https://www.facebook.com/motoologymag/ times past. While Don is known shampoo doesn’t it?) and they continue losing money. I mean, how can anyone take for award-winning restorations over something like that and not make money on it? Only a that make appearances at The vaccines are coming the vaccines are coming! ...at government could bodge up being a drug dealer. venues like Pebble Beach, the least that’s what we’re being told. I see that in the US and UK, Anyway, I digress. The reason for my rant is we, all of us, Dodgem is something out of the ordinary ...and wonderful! the vaccination programs are well underway.