Wednesday, May 2, 2007 · Page 19 Saskatchewan youth buys first car Calder Hawkesford of Fillmore, Saskatchewan, will never forget his first car, and still wonders what became of it after he sold it: "When I was in Grade Twelve, I persuaded my parents that I really needed a car, and because of my newly acquired part-time job, I could purchase such a beast, but I had to find one that was in decent shape. "The result was that, after much looking, I purchased a 1953 Morris Oxford sedan (you know, one of those !@$% little English cars) for the princely sum of $250. The Morris was not really my idea of `cool' transportation (I would much rather have had a Ford or a Chev) but Dad reminded me that the car was in pretty good shape. "It was shiny jet-black in colour, had four cylinders and a four-speed manual shift on the column, if you please. The real leather upholstery smelled luxuriously on that warm fall day when I went to pick it up, having bought it a couple of days before. "The two fellows who had previously owned the car had done a lot of work on it before selling it to me. First, they had cobbled together a continental kit and placed it on the trunk and rear bumper (extended about 8" from normal). It sounds dreadful but it didn't look all that bad. "The front fender chrome strips from a 1952 (or so) Mercury half-ton had been scrounged and placed on the front fenders of my car. These strips didn't look too out of place, but the Ford Motor Company just had to put `Mercury' on them in great, huge, red letters. At traffic lights, these additions made for some interesting comments from fellow motorists: `Morris Mercury! Where the hell did you find that the bottom of Wascana Creek?' or `Didja make that continental kit out of your Meccano set?' or `Hey, hot shot, wanna drag?' "Anyway, I was now a proud member of the motoring public. On Saturday afternoons, six of us would pile into it and travel to shoot pool in Pense, a nearby village. Shooting pool in Regina was too expensive 50 cents! With six guys in the car, the Morris had a top speed of 35 miles per hour, wide open. The springs were fully pressed down. It's a wonder we didn't drag bottom. "Every so often, the filter on the SU electric fuel pump would clog and the car would conk out. I had to Calder Hawkesford tries to look cool with his 1953 Morris Oxford. tap the filter with pliers to get the gas flowing again. "I finally sold the Morris for $190 to a man who planned to take it up to Prince Albert for his father. I never saw the man or the car again. "On late winter nights when the wind is blowing, and it's 40 below outside, I wonder if that old Morris actually made it to Prince Albert. Poor devil that bought it probably froze to death on No. 6 Highway with a fuel pump filter in his hand..." Do you have any photos of old cars to share with our readers? Email bill@car story.com or write to Bill Sherk, P.O. Box 10012, Leamington, ON, N8H 2C3. 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