Day 21 - The Grand Tour

Today was the convention's Grand Tour to Burnaby Village. Breakfast was quick and we were outside by 8:30 to get our directions covering the route we would be taking. Dick & Barbara had a full load in the Station Wagon, with Wayne & Sue and Harold & Robyn riding with them. Our passengers were Gene & Barbara for the trip, which was 20 miles over “scenic” roads. I guess the term scenic is subjective, but we did find the river with it’s cargo of logs floating in it a real surprise. I thought this method of transporting logs was discontinued long ago.

We arrived at Burnaby Village and joined the 100’s of other Model A’s spread throughout the property. Burnaby Village is a recreation of what the Village of Burnaby might have been like in early 1900’s. Our first stop was wonderful Carousel which was restored by a large team of volunteers. It looked great with all its finely painted horses and what impressed me was the speed it was turning…it seemed like it was really flying by, good thing there was no brass ring to try to grab on this ride. Upon leaving the building we saw Jack in a familiar pose…looks like he was doing some free-lancing while on vacation.

The rest of the village had a variety of buildings that displayed the various shops and businesses that would have been available at the time. The ones that I enjoyed were the Auto Garage, the General Store and the steam engine display. Of course the one Mr. O’Brien like was, yes, you guessed it, the Ice Cream Shoppe. The restored street car was very impressive too. And, of course, what would a village in Canada be without a couple of Mounties for protection.

Back at the hotel Dick decided to check the front end alignment of the Woody. Good thing he did as it had way too much toe-in. Using a primitive tool the toe-in was brought back to normal after which he rotated the wheels: back to front, front to back. Hopefully they will now last the trip back home.

Tomorrow is the last day of the Convention and the plan is to visit Grouse Mountain. Hopefully we will have good visibility, which could be an issue as the area is experiencing some problems due to smoke wildfires.