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CLASSIC CARS


LARRY WAY


This month’s article will feature a typical baby boomer with The Car Bug


You Never Know When It Will Bite You


a different automotive interest. Like many of us in the classic car world, our interests were sparked from many different experiences. Whether it was someone in the family that loved cars, or from building model cars, or seeing the teenagers cruising with their cool rides, something triggered that interest. In the case of Gilles Laviolette of Rockland, Ontario, it started


by him playing in his sandbox as a little guy. There was also an automotive mechanic living across the street from the family home, so he would hang out there with the mechanic and his son, Roger. At age 16, Gilles and Roger decided to open a scrap yard for old cars. This business lasted a couple of years. Young Gilles then started to help a local towing company. With the money he earned from this part-time job, he purchased his first car - a 1961 Monarch, four door, with a 390 engine. Later, in the 1960’s, he bought a 1964 yellow Impala convertible, less the engine and transmission. He soon found a drive train and he was on the road. I first met Gilles in 1969 when he was driving his yellow


Chevy convertible. Gilles then started to work full time on the family farm. A few years later, he started his own construction company, which he worked at until he retired a few years ago. Different cars came and went over the years. In 1988, the


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