PUTONEWS

June 1987 ——

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f TAKING IT ALL OFF has become fashionable once more — and |
j elegant in the case of BMW’s new 325i Cabriolet, their first open-air |
f model since 1957. Car pictured was the first to arrive at Capital City |
f Auto Ltd. and soon sold at a list price of $43,900. The soft top raises :
f or tucks away in mere seconds. So efficient and well executed is this }
| all-important fixture that it captured a major European designaward.

Automobile Trade Talk

Les Sluggett has stepped up to general manager after 19 years
service with Empress. :

At Metro, Mark Grattan ‘Baz’ isnow a used car r sales manager.
Grattan has worked at Metro for six years.

At Honda City. Gary Fisher, from an Edmonton Ford dealer-
ship, takes up the post of business manager and Les Lebid, for-
merly of Metro Toyota takes over as new car sales manager.

The Competition

+NO Gimmicks — NO inflated ‘Prices -
. Honest-to-Goodness Value for: r your DOLLAR !!

JUNESPECIAL.

: only *139. :

Hard Lustrous
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‘On Douglas
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Dairy Queen

PROTECTION +
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By AUTONEWS STAFF

Motorcycle mom Tanya
Chidley had only. two

thoughts on her mind while
she lay in hospital badly in-
jured —- her twin three-year-
old daughters.

But after nine weeks in Vie-
toria General hospital she
came home to “sadness” be-
cause she cannot play with
Michele and Chantelle. or
allow them to sit on her lap.

Tanya,. 26, a member. of
Victoria’s Lowriders women’s
motorcycle. club (that’s her
third from the right in the iop

picture) almost lost her left leg

in an accident on her way. to

work early on Friday the 13th.

in March. “She j ds still confined
toa wheelchair and has diffi-

cul ty: walking with crutches. .
Friendsi inthe club shed tears |.
when: they —

-would no longer be able to ride

heard Tanya

weekends with: them on-her

powerful 650 cc machine. “It
was-a terrible blow to us all: I.
- sobbed when] heard about the
: Lynn

said:
club president

accident,”
MacDonald,
and founder:

She was hit by atruck driven
by a 71-year-old man. He was
later: charged with failing to
yield right of way.

Says Tanya, whose husband

Mike operates an. upholstery

) An Empress exclusive

Four scorching dea on.
whe cls —

All-black Firebirds with -
ground etfects package

Firehawk GT Radiats, rear
spoilers, S~-spead tran nys.
and More. a

“INJURED J MOM 7 TANYA: q think i'm Tacky’
business from their. home. at™

2725 Jacklin Road: “I'm not
superstitious —:> and ] think
I'm tucky that I still have my
leg. But at the time 1 thoug ghtl.
was going to die.”

But what happened to Ta ny a
on that black and unlucky day
is not unusual, for to car driv-
ers motorcyclists are

for four-wheeled vehicles
"Wsasif they don’ texist,”

Bob Smith, motorcycle pro-

yorear neater matontonce thre

whale rt hat’s

model, the Prohude ,

‘to think as they ride “

“invis-.
ible” intruders on roads meant:

says and. still not sce it.

. gram co-ordina tor for the Van-
‘couver Island Safety Council. —

And that means bikers have

can see me,” says Bob Smith.
“Motorists quite often simply
don’t see them: _
“Most people are brought
up to think of the roads as
places for cars, trucks and
buses:
will look right ata motorcycle

Tt just
doesn’ { register.’

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aright, Honda is “turning ‘the market tciwards foure.
wheeladteeringandleading the field with asleck update oftheirtop

With rear wheels also ctoering, the turning,
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wystem dis mee hanirat which should allay buyers

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