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Bill Botting of Oak Bay will bring one of his restored old-timers – a 1969 Jaguar or a 1938 Standard Flying Eight Tourer – to the street for the annual Collector Car Festival on Sunday.
Garage sale find ready to shine Car festival will fill the streets with works in progress and showy finished products
runs this weekend on Oak Botting picked up Bay Avenue. the 1938 Standard Fly“(There’s) the pering Eight Tourer at a During the Second World son into building and Garagellenium sale War, the Standard was among assembly, then they start three years ago. the vehicles modified and another,” Agate explained. “We’ve restored the used by the British military “Then there’s (the person whole thing. It was in as a utility vehicle, earning into) the shining and cartough shape, rusted the nickname Tilly. ing for them. I’m a bit of and everything,” he each.” said of the woodBill Botting of Oak Bay admits to being framed car that cost $3,000. “That car’s so that guy as well. rare … there are only two others with left “Build them and use them, that’s me,” hand drive in North America.” he said, gesturing to his latest rebuild. “I’m PLEASE SEE: going to use it daily. … (it’s) very good on More than a car show, Page A10 gasoline.”
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There are two types of owners you might expect at any classic car show, says Ken Agate. He organizes, and has for the past dozen years, the Oak Bay Collector Car Festival (formerly Blethering Place) that
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Is Big Brother really watching you? Three Victoria privacy advocates have spent the past two years trying to answer that question, digging up scraps of information on a controversial police technology called the automated licence plate recognition system. “We have been stymied at every level,” said Chris Parsons, a University of Victoria PhD candidate specializing in privacy issues. The device uses police cruiser-mounted cameras to automatically capture up to 3,000 licence plates per hour. It then notifies officers of a “hit” on prohibited owners, as well as uninsured and stolen vehicles. The technology is used throughout British Columbia and is administered by the RCMP. In Greater Victoria, VicPD, Saanich police and the Integrated Road Safety Unit use it on a regular basis. What makes the program so concerning to critics is that data collected from “nonhit” vehicles is kept on encrypted RCMP servers for two years. Although it’s not used, the information could be referenced for investigative purposes to retrace vehicle movements. The RCMP insists such actions are not taking place, but the Mountie in charge of the program, Supt. Denis Boucher, said his office is considering expanding the program.
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