by Frank Colgoni
Does it ever fail? We have to be talking about the weather if we're referring to a car event. We had one of the driest summers in decades yet, the weekend of Canats, specifically the Friday evening and overnight, southern Ontario was rocked with torrential downpours.

On Saturday morning, in Markham where I live (north of Toronto), we had fog so dense that you couldn't see the houses across the street - weird for July. However, we did set out for Trenton, meeting up with some others along the way and arriving in Trenton (a couple of hours east of Toronto) to overcast skies. You could tell that if the sun ever came out, it would be ugly as the air was heavy with moisture and there were standing pools of water everywhere suggesting that it had rained in Trenton also. In fact, we bumped into someone we knew at the local coffee shop and found out that it had rained very hard during the previous evening and overnight.

Proceeding to the grounds, the evidence of the rain was everywhere. Some of the grassy areas were literally under water other areas were boggy. Definitely not ideal and it's likely that these conditions and the rain hurt attendance that day. We don't have any attendance figures but it appeared down from the previous year. The sun did appear later in the morning and it did get ugly - hot and humid.

Having said that, the organizers carrried on in exemplary fashion as usual. They always deserve our thanks. And, there were lots of nice cars to see and nice people to talk to. Worth mentioning is the long distance awards to Zane Southgate who drove his '52 Henry J fom Saskatchewan and Ken Patterson and his '51 Mercury from Florida.