odds and ends

Rambling warm Saturday, first warm day for a long time so everyone seemed to be out and about, including me.

So in keeping with that attitude here is an unfocused post:

Came across a news item from 1977 saying that Tom Berrow, from Port Coquitlam, BC, qualified 36th for the Permatex 300 NASCAR race at Riverside, CA. That would be the support race to the Winston Cup cars (of that era, now they're Sprint Cup stock cars). No follow up article that I could find but I have only looked in one newspaper of the day. (The photo is of Tom with his number 86 super stock along with Al Tourond at Langley Speedway in 1976.)

Also, from the motorcycling world is this link. Motorcycle photos from Westwood from the early 1960s.

Finally, from back east there are a few interesting articles in the current issue (April 08) of Inside Track Motorsport News: one on the Can-Am series, another on a longtime stock car racer from Ontario and another on the 2008 induction ceremony for the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame.