CROWD GETS BANG OUT OF BLOW.Byline: Joe Mosley The Register-Guard COBURG - The rings are the first thing to go. Jerry Smith Jerry Smith may refer to the following people:
"Sometimes these are real spectacular, and sometimes they're duds," he said just as a few wisps of smoke rose from the hood of an '80s-vintage Ford Escort Over the years, the name 'Ford Escort' has been used for several models. For more information, see:
Ford Motor Company on Saturday afternoon. Suddenly, billowing bil·low n. 1. A large wave or swell of water. 2. A great swell, surge, or undulating mass, as of smoke or sound. v. bil·lowed, bil·low·ing, bil·lows v.intr. 1. clouds of gray smoke poured out from beneath the doomed car and the crowd went wild. The sacrificial Escort shuttered and stuttered, revved one more time and then fell silent. A minute and 40 seconds. The "engine blow," a high point of the Coburg Car Classic, ended on the short side of what spectators and organizers expected, but at least it didn't fall into the "dud" category. The smoke and noise were satisfying enough, and the engine's quick demise - its radiator and crankcase crank·case n. The metal case enclosing the crankshaft and associated parts in a reciprocating engine. crankcase Noun the metal case that encloses the crankshaft in an internal-combustion engine had been drained of fluids - sent folks scurrying scur·ry intr.v. scur·ried, scur·ry·ing, scur·ries 1. To go with light running steps; scamper. 2. To flurry or swirl about. n. pl. scur·ries 1. The act of scurrying. to the predictions board to find out who'd won. That would be Marilyn Howard of Jasper, who was awarded $136 - half the money raised in the engine blow - for guessing closest to the time it took for the engine to seize up and die. The other half went to the Coburg Rural Fire District, which staged the event. Howard's prediction was a minute and 41 seconds. "What was my clue?" she said after picking up her prize money. "Well, it was a Ford!" That from a car aficionado A Spanish word that means fan, devotee, enthusiast, etc. There are loyal aficionados of every subject in the computer field. who used to rebuild Mustangs with her late husband. But she's switched both make and era, having brought her 2002 Prowler (a Chrysler) to the Coburg show. It was one of more than 200 classics, hot rods, muscle cars and automotive oddities on display at the 13th annual event. No one kept track of how many hundreds of car lovers showed up at the free show, put on privately for the past 11 years by three families to raise money for the fire department and other local charities. "We'd been going to events like this for years," said Ron Beard, who along with his wife, Lois, was one of the chief organizers. "It was being put on by one person, and then they took off. But our first one started with 12 cars, and now we have over 200 cars." Joining the Beards in the organizational clique (mathematics) clique - A maximal totally connected subgraph. Given a graph with nodes N, a clique C is a subset of N where every node in C is directly connected to every other node in C (i.e. C is totally connected), and C contains all such nodes (C is maximal). are Ron and Nancy Heyerly, and Dale Aleksa. The event now raises about $5,000 each year, which helps pay for park equipment, the Coburg Senior Ladies' annual Christmas trip, school clothes for needy teens and other local causes. Most of the money comes from a long list of sponsors, who get their names printed on the backs of event T-shirts. "We just came up with the sponsorship idea about six years ago," Beard said. "That's what made it a profitable event." Cars at this year's show ranged from a dull black, unrestored 1933 Ford Coupe to a fully-restored, black-and-white Willy's Coupe; from a 1967 Cobra race car to a 1959 Nash Metropolitan The Nash Metropolitan was a subcompact car that was sold from 1954 to 1962. The Metropolitan was also sold as a Hudson when Nash and Hudson merged in 1954 to form the American Motors Corporation (AMC), and later as a standalone marque during the Rambler years, as well as in ; and from a fully-blown (carburetor intake protruding pro·trude v. pro·trud·ed, pro·trud·ing, pro·trudes v.tr. To push or thrust outward. v.intr. To jut out; project. See Synonyms at bulge. from hood) 1960 Corvette corvette, small warship, classed between a frigate and a sloop-of-war. Corvettes usually were flush-decked and carried fewer than 28 guns. They were widely employed in escorting convoys and attacking merchant ships during the great naval wars of the late 18th and to a 1967 Sunbeam Tiger. But everyone seemed to be looking forward to the engine blow, which has been staged for several years. "Last year we tried to put pyrotechnics pyrotechnics (pī'rōtĕk`nĭks, pī'rə–), technology of making and using fireworks. Gunpowder was used in fireworks by the Chinese as early as the 9th cent. under the car," said Fire Chief Chad Minter, who oversees the event. "That didn't work very well. But this one was kind of cool, with the smoke coming out from underneath." Beard remembers one a few years back when an old Cadillac El Dorado was drained of fluids and revved for the engine blow. Beard was in the driver's seat, pressing down on the gas pedal. "It threw a rod through the floor, and then it threw three more rods onto the pavement," he said. "Now we use a brick to hold the pedal down." CAPTION(S): A cherry-red Thunderbird thunderbird In North American Indian mythology, a powerful spirit in the form of a bird that watered the earth and made vegetation grow. Lightning was believed to flash from its eyes or beak, and the beating of its wings was thought to represent rolling thunder. catches the eye of car enthusiasts gathered Saturday for the 13th annual Coburg Car Classic. The show raises about $5,000 for park equipment, the Coburg Senior Ladies' annual Christmas trip, school clothes for needy teens and other local causes. Brian Davies / The Register-Guard Coburg firefighters prepare a Ford Escort to be sacrificed Saturday in the "engine blow" fund-raising event. "Last year we tried to put pyrotechnics under the car. That didn't work very well. But this one was kind of cool, with the smoke coming out from underneath." CHAD MINTER COBURG FIRE CHIEF |
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