FAIR GAME BUSES WILL FACE OFF IN DEMOLITION DERBY.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer LANCASTER - School buses that spent 30 years hauling youngsters around the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley will get one last route in retirement: racing around the Antelope Valley Fairgrounds arena The Fairgrounds Arena was a 10,944-seat multi-purpose arena in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma USA. It was home to the Oklahoma City Blazers Central Hockey League franchise from 1965 to 1977. and smashing into each other. Four school buses retired last year by the Antelope Valley Schools Transportation Agency will race around a Figure 8-shape race course and then go head to head in a bus demolition derby demolition derby n. A contest in which drivers crash old cars into each other until only one is left running. as part of a July 12 demolition derby event at the fairgrounds n. pl. 1. same as fairground. . `` They really go pretty good ... they do about 65,'' said Ed Lowe
Edward Lowe (July 10 1920 - October 4 1995) invented cat litter. He was born on July 10 1920 in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was in the Navy from 1941 to 1945. , a Lancaster truck repair shop owner who organizes fairground motor sports events and who provided the buses. ``They're a little bit hard to handle. They're not stock cars.'' Bus Figure 8 racing will begin at 6 p.m. July 12, followed by a demolition derby with at least 20 cars. The event will conclude with a demolition derby for the buses. Festival-type seating will cost $10 a person. Gates will open about 4:30 or 5 p.m. Still in their standard yellow paint but with the bus agency logo painted out, the buses will be equipped with safety harnesses for the drivers, who will wear helmets and flame-resistant driving suits. Driving will be Lowe's friends, who are coming from as far as Colorado. A big-rig tow truck will stand by during the Figure 8 race to right any of the 9 1/4-ton, 37-foot-long buses that topple over. ``These are top-heavy buses,'' Lowe said while driving reporters and photographers around the fairgrounds' dirt arena Friday. ``There's a good chance all four buses are going to be on their sides.'' Lowe ended up with the four buses because he had to buy them to get a fifth bus he wanted to convert into a motor home. He paid $15,000 for all five at an auction. All had reached the 30-year legal limit for school buses, he said. The idea of the bus race and demolition derby occurred to him after his purchase. ``I thought, You know, I got these other buses, what can we do? Can we use them at the fairgrounds?'' said Lowe, who's been organizing the annual fair demolition derby since 1986. After the race, two will be turned over to the Los Angeles County Fire Department Not to be confused with Los Angeles Fire Department. The Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACoFD), serves unincorporated parts of Los Angeles County, as well as 58 cities and towns that choose to have the county provide fire and EMS services, including the City of La and one to the Kern Kern, river, 155 mi (249 km) long, rising in the S Sierra Nevada Mts., E Calif., and flowing south, then southwest to a reservoir in the extreme southern part of the San Joaquin valley. The river has Isabella Dam as its chief facility. County Fire Department for firefighters to use in training on how to open up a wrecked wrecked adj. Slang Drunk or intoxicated. Adj. 1. wrecked - destroyed in an accident; "a wrecked ship"; "a highway full of wrecked cars" bus. One he'll keep for parts. For information or to buy tickets in advance, call (661) 948-6060. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- color) One of the school buses to be used in a July 12 demolition derby at the A.V. Fair is put through its paces at the fairgrounds racetrack Friday. (2 -- color) Ed Lowe, organizer and promoter A person who devises a plan for a business venture; one who takes the preliminary steps necessary for the formation of a corporation. Promoters are the people, who, for themselves or on behalf of others, organize a corporation. of the A.V. Fair demolition derby, gives the media a taste of what's coming July 12 when he crashes into a school bus at the fairgrounds racetrack Friday. David Sprague/Staff Photographer |
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