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Last year, museum curator Maria Martins made the decision to sell off the fire trucks and put the word out to fire museums throughout the province. This caught the attention of the mainly retired firefighters at the West Vancouver Fire Museum. Quebec-based Thibault built only 24 Thibault AWIT models like this pumper in 1954. Sixteen of these fire trucks went to the Canadian military. Records showed that a 1954 Thibault had been sold to the Port Hardy Fire Department, and that would have ended the interest until volunteers started comparing old photos of Number 31 to current photos. “We noti...

Very rare restored roadster was originally sold to a Chicago man and has lots of 'illicit' qualities

Coast Import Auto Supply was the go to place when searching for a hard-to-find bit of British or Italian treasure

Local enthusiast Murray Chambers got into all these events because he took photographs for Motorsport in British Columbia magazine publisher Doug Harder. Harder also produced the demolition derbies that began in Callister Park across the street from the PNE in the Sixties and later through the Seventies and Eighties on the fairgrounds during the annual PNE Fair. In 1970, he brought Hollywood film stunt driver Ron Walker to Vancouver to deliver a thrill show on wheels. “I needed to give the demolition drivers an hour or so to repair their cars after the heat races and get them running again ...

Bruce Hitchen’s Center Lane channel connects the global collector car community