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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2017
Turning back time at Wheels and Waves Coast Guard calls off
Annual Seaside
event showcases
vintage cars
By BRENNA VISSER
The Daily Astorian
SEASIDE – For three days,
Seaside’s downtown corridor
felt like a 1950s flashback.
Spectators ogled at bright-
ly-colored Chevys, Pontiacs
and Plymouths lining Broad-
way, as others swing-danced
and hand-jived to rock ‘n’ roll
classics in front of Dundee’s.
But the flashback was actu-
ally this year’s Seaside Down-
town Development Associ-
ation’s Wheels and Waves
event, known for showcas-
ing cars made in 1965 or ear-
lier. This year, more than 200
cars registered to participate
in a number of slow cruises
through town.
While many of the hot rods
were models from the 1940s
and ’50s, some reached all the
way back to 1915.
Ted and Pam Lively, both
from Warrenton, sat dressed
in the correct period dress of
bowler hats and petticoats next
to their 1915 Ford Model T. As
locals, the two have attended
the show as spectators for
many years, but this was the
first year they chose to enter a
car themselves.
“If we’re going to make
a spectacle of ourselves, we
might as well do it all,” Ted
Lively said, pointing to his
costume.
The Livelys found the now
glistening, black Model T in
rusty, faded condition in a bed-
room of a home in Pendleton
about a year and a half ago.
The owner stored it there for
years before deciding to sell it
to the couple, which Ted fig-
ured was because “she proba-
bly wanted her bedroom back.”
His love for Model T’s are
rooted strongly in family mem-
ories. Growing up, the first car
he drove was a Ford Model
A, and he has fond memories
of working on them with his
brother and dad.
Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
More than 200 vintage vehicles and their owners showed
up over the weekend in downtown Seaside for the annu-
al Wheels and Waves event, which showcases cars made
before 1965.
“I love driving them. Model
T’s are as simple as simple can
be,” Ted said.
With a Model T, there is
no need to worry about any
type of generator or compli-
cated electrical wiring, but
refinishing one can be a chal-
lenge. Almost everything is
crank operated, and sometimes
it takes months to find increas-
ingly rare parts — like a ker-
osene taillight or tires — for a
car that is the last model to be
legally classified as a “horse-
less carriage,” Ted said.
But after months of work,
the two got the car running
well enough to putter down
U.S. Highway 101 to the car
show at the car’s maximum
speed: 35 mph.
Almost every aspect of
the vehicle has been restored
as authentically as it would
have been in 1915, except for
the noticeably modern iPhone
mount on the windshield. The
1915 model never included a
speedometer, so the Livelys
use a speedometer app on their
phones to suffice.
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“I have no desire to buy a
new car,” Ted said.
The Livelys’ love of pre-
serving and remembering his-
tory is something they work to
impart upon their children and
grandchildren. Ted has worked
on a number of Model A’s and
T’s over the years, and even
passed one down to one of his
grandchildren to drive to high
school.
“That one could go 45
mph,” Ted laughed.
The two enjoy coming to
car shows to share these kinds
of stories with other car enthu-
siasts, Pam said. They enjoy
answering questions about how
a car this old can still operate in
a 21st-century world.
“You get attached to them,”
Pam said. “It’s important for
people to see how things were.
People don’t know our history
anymore, and history gives you
a good sense of who you are.”
The Daily Astorian
The Coast Guard on
Sunday night suspended a
search for a Canadian man
who reportedly fell off an
800-foot cliff near Devil’s
Cauldron in Oswald West
State Park.
The 51-year-old British
Columbia man’s wife said
she witnessed the fall on
Sunday. One of the man’s
shoes and his backpack were
found by search crews in the
ocean below where he had
apparently fallen, according
to the Coast Guard.
The search was sus-
pended just before 9 p.m.
“Suspending a search is
one of the hardest decisions
we ever have to make,”
Mark Dobney, command
duty officer, Sector Colum-
bia River, said in a state-
ment. “Our thoughts and
prayers are with the family
during this tragic and trying
time.”
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