Derek
Story and all visuals © by Derek Cadzow unless otherwise noted.
Ottawa stars race in Pro Series, OKRA
Racing at the club level in Ottawa came with limitations.
We had to use ~12-horsepower McCulloch engines (originally...
1978: Losing a wheel, flipping upside down
1978 was the year that Jimmy Carter led Israel and Egypt to sign a lasting peace accord, the first test-tube baby...
…and then my feet fell off
From the file: “you did WHAT when you were young…??”
Imagine for a minute that you are a...
The Textile Artisan
Jackie Weatherly-Cadzow is an artist that loves bright, bold color. Her silk paintings and textile art and acrylic paintings are full of...
All things must pass: the championship that decided everything
All photos in this post are available for purchase in the photo gallery.
October-November, 1977 — The winds...
Tales of the Golden Beetle: the little engine that could
(image above: this is not David's beetle (nor my photo), but I imagine that his looked much the same in...
Tales of the Golden Beetle: fire and snow
(image above: this is not David's beetle, but it is the same year and looks the same except for the...
OceansideAutoAppraisers.com
David Sampson, a name you may remember from other posts about slot-car racing and radio-control car racing, is someone I've known since...
Tales of the Golden Beetle: the gas heater
(image above: this is not David's beetle, but I recall seeing David's legs appearing from underneath his VW in much...
Finally racing on our own track
September, 1977 — For me, our very first race weekend on our new track at Quyon, Quebec,...
