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Speed Sport Show features racing's finest, More than 200 of the world's best street machines, hot rods and custom-built cars will be showcased at the (...)
Speed Sport Show features racing's finest, More than 200 of the world's best street machines, hot rods and custom-built cars will be showcased at the (...)

Speed Sport Show features racing's finest, More than 200 of the world's best street machines, hot rods and custom-built cars will be showcased at the (...)

Date1/3/1991
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Original Toronto Star caption: Speed Sport Show features racing's finest; More than 200 of the world's best street machines; hot rods and custom-built cars will be showcased at the 30th annual 1991 Speed Sport Show at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre starting today. Car fanciers will have a chance to see some of racing's fastest cars up close; and perhaps drool over such beauties as Roy Bork's 1966 Mustang (above) or Jim Thompson's 1938 Ford De Luxe; (left).
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0010166F
      Speed Sport Show features racing's finest, More than 200 of the world's best street machines, hot rods and custom-built cars will be showcased at the (...)
      Speed Sport Show features racing's finest, More than 200 of the world's best street machines, hot rods and custom-built cars will be showcased at the (...)
      Stawicki, Andrew
      1/3/1991
      Custom car buffs have an eye for beauty, Trim lines are a must at any hot rod and custom car show, and keeping up the theme at Speed Sport '75 which o(...)
      Custom car buffs have an eye for beauty, Trim lines are a must at any hot rod and custom car show, and keeping up the theme at Speed Sport '75 which o(...)
      Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022
      1/31/1975
      Clinging to box cars, many Toronto folk rode the rods for the first time yesterday as they sought every possible vantage point along the right-of-way (...)
      Clinging to box cars, many Toronto folk rode the rods for the first time yesterday as they sought every possible vantage point along the right-of-way (...)
      Elizabeth, Queen, consort of George VI, King of Great Britain, 1900-2002
      6/7/1939
      Hot rods: Harold Middleton, 41, a trucker-turned-car-appraiser, peers through the chrome wheel of a '47 Ford called Rock 'n' Roll Flathead
      Hot rods: Harold Middleton, 41, a trucker-turned-car-appraiser, peers through the chrome wheel of a '47 Ford called Rock 'n' Roll Flathead
      Dunlop, Alan
      3/3/1988
      Hot rods: Technicians work on the reactor tubes, which contain 6,240 bundles of uranium fuel rods
      Hot rods: Technicians work on the reactor tubes, which contain 6,240 bundles of uranium fuel rods
      Mahler, John
      8/29/1989
      Racing driver Paul Cooke suggests that for times when chasing a car is the only way to catch a suspect, police should be trained for high-speed driving, which is more dangerous than they think
      Racing driver Paul Cooke suggests that for times when chasing a car is the only way to catch a suspect, police should be trained for high-speed driving, which is more dangerous than they think
      Ross, Fred
      5/6/1971
      About 500 pooches of mixed ancestry paraded their finest and a few added features in The Star's Mutt Show yesterday at Harborfront. It was declared a (...)
      About 500 pooches of mixed ancestry paraded their finest and a few added features in The Star's Mutt Show yesterday at Harborfront. It was declared a (...)
      Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
      6/19/1977
      Champagne shower: Danny Sullivan, runner-up to Emerson Fittipaldi in yesterday's Molson Indy at Exhibition Place, performs one of car racing's rituals by spraying the crowd with champagne
      Champagne shower: Danny Sullivan, runner-up to Emerson Fittipaldi in yesterday's Molson Indy at Exhibition Place, performs one of car racing's rituals by spraying the crowd with champagne
      Mahler, John
      7/17/1987
      Coupe de thrill: Larry Srigley, who runs Dynamic Street Rods in Oakville, shows off one of his Model A replicas
      Coupe de thrill: Larry Srigley, who runs Dynamic Street Rods in Oakville, shows off one of his Model A replicas
      Bock, Tony
      1/24/1992
      Gaining momentum: Carmaker George Fejer is negotiating federal aid to build a bigger plant. His two-year-old Super Seven Sportcars Co. in Newmarket has just won an order to supply 100 two-seater sports cars to Japan, plus a standby order for 200 more.
      Gaining momentum: Carmaker George Fejer is negotiating federal aid to build a bigger plant. His two-year-old Super Seven Sportcars Co. in Newmarket has just won an order to supply 100 two-seater sports cars to Japan, plus a standby order for 200 more.
      Mahler, John
      5/10/1984
      Mining the world's largest sandbox in the Athabasca tar sands is a job for big machines, like this 150-ton truck, and big money, says Sun Oil executiv(...)
      Mining the world's largest sandbox in the Athabasca tar sands is a job for big machines, like this 150-ton truck, and big money, says Sun Oil executiv(...)
      Lennon, Frank
      12/3/1973
      Armed with rods and saws, a group of hopeful fishermen, just specks in distance, head to an ice hut to begin the day's sport
      Armed with rods and saws, a group of hopeful fishermen, just specks in distance, head to an ice hut to begin the day's sport
      Russell, Jim
      1/31/1982