Derek
Story and all visuals © by Derek Cadzow unless otherwise noted.
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...
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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,...
Dad and his camera
In 1970, I was a fourteen-year-old who’d just been bitten by the car racing bug. When...
On the road as the home club crumbles
After staging a very successful public race at the Museum of Science and Technology in Ottawa, you’d think that our local Ottawa-Hull...
Showdown at the science museum
Black-and-white photographs in this story are by Dirk Van Battum.
June, 1977 — The expected showdown between Jon...
Picton hill proves painful
Full disclosure: the above picture is the start-finish line at the Picton racetrack, but it is from the 1978 Canadian...
Scotland’s Southern Hebrides
This was a trip to say goodbye to my Dad. Over the years, he had taken numerous trips back to Scotland and...
