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(ET) 2008 Elec-Trak Meet - Crysler Ontario?
I won't be able to make the meet-up this year, as much as I would like
to do so.
Yesterday, I attended the Damfest event at the Crysler Community Centre,
near Morrisburg Ontario. I was there with my vintage electric
motorcycle (a 1974 Auranthetic Charger), and officially became an "Old
Bastard" - that is, a member of the Old Bastard Vintage Motorcycle Club
(named after the former County of Bastard, eliminated in 1999 with
provincial restructuring of municipalities).
I also had my Elec-Trak E12 there, as there was supposed to be a garden
tractor show, with tractor pull. Due to some confusion on part of the
tractor organizers, no other tractors showed up - so the Elec-Trak was
shown with the motorcycles - including some real beauties like a mint
Ducati shown by its original owner, and the oldest running BMW bike in
Canada. Lovely old BSA's and Triumphs, including a (1938?) Triumph
motor-bicycle. Small, one cylinder engine on rear wheel, plus original
pedal drive. Much, much more unique stuff, including running steamboats
offering rides and close to 100 vintage cars. The Elec-Trak generated a
lot of positive attention.
Anyway, the park is a nice venue, on the river, in a nice small village.
This is now an annual event, so I can get a date for next year
shortly. The village is not far from the upstate New York border, so
this could be a reasonable trip for those of us in southern Ontario,
eastern Ontario, much of Quebec, NY state and possible other parts of
New England.
I think the vintage motorcycle group would sponsor us for some space -
the current group president is a former Elec-Trak owner, an another
member is a former local EV club member. A third has expressed interest
in buying my motorcycle.
So, would anyone else be interested in having an electric tractor
meet-up in eastern Ontario in June 2008? If so, please let me know, and
if there is interest, I will start getting something organized.
Darryl
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Darryl McMahon
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