Pattullo Bridge: Immigration

Rear Brakes Dept: The fact that Les Diack survived his teen years to lead the points standing at Burnaby's Digney Speedway is noteworthy, according to Vancouver Sun. Remarkably, Diack and his friends made it all the way to Princeton before heavy snow forced them to turn back. They experienced hair raising out-ofcontrol driving while careening downhill in the old car with no brakes and had to fix seven flat tires by the roadside by raising the car with a long pole. But they made it all the way back to Burnaby in one piece. about the same time, he and his brothers got interested in racing and burnaby's Digney Speedway was once the Centre of Stock Car Thrills and Spills Diack, known as Bud to family and friends, came from a family of 13 children living in a big house that once stood at the point where Highway 1 starts, just east of Boundary Road. His older brothers were always buying and selling cars and, at the age of 14, Bud Diack paid one of his brothers $100 for a 1927 Chevrolet touring car that ran but had no brakes. always handy, he and his friends used pieces of an old military belt to make linings for the rear brakes. in the spring of 1949, they took off to traverse the twisty mountainous Hope-Princeton Highway which was under construction. When their makeshift brake linings caught fire while driving down the hill onto the Pattullo Bridge, the car was left without any brakes. The teenagers carried on anyway. As reported in the news.
@t buying and selling cars, car with no brakes