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| CLOSURES IN TORONTO AREA [message #357806] |
Tue, 18 August 2020 12:12  |
kingd
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To those in Ontario or anywhere in Canada, an update as to what is open in Toronto
Canada's Wonderland is NOT open
Wet n Wild water park is NOT open
Toronto Zoo is open sort of must pre book
Ripley's Aquarium is open
Casa Loma is open
CN Tower is open
As always in this time check a couple of days in advance and the day before and in the AM the
day of your planned visit.
ENJOY !!!
DAVE KING
lurker, wannabe
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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| Re: CLOSURES IN TORONTO AREA [message #357840 is a reply to message #357806] |
Tue, 18 August 2020 23:05  |
Ken Burton
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Location: Hebron, Indiana
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Have they still got the border blocked. I have a friend who has a house in Ontario. The last I knew they would still not let him in.
Ken Burton - N9KB
76 Palm Beach
Hebron, Indiana
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| Re: CLOSURES IN TORONTO AREA [message #357851 is a reply to message #357806] |
Wed, 19 August 2020 09:23 |
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Matt Colie
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Location: S.E. Michigan
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Let's hope Canada opens soon.......
I have a Canadian plate BMW X3 in my lot. It has been there since December. Mary's Canadian cousin and spouse come to Detroit (DTW) regularly to fly their boat that is moored in Miami. A typical trip is that they come here, visit, and we take then to departure in their car and bring the car back here. On the backhaul, we go and pick them up in their car and the have a short visit and they drive home.
In January, this didn't work. It was colder than normal here. (Please fill in the trite expression you chose for really cold.) I could not get it to start. It would bang on one cylinder sometimes, but that was the best it would do. They got a rental to take home for the week that they were north and we undid that when they went south again. It was still cold, very cold. When they came north the next time, they brought their Florida car north (had to for insurance) and as the plague was arriving, they just went on through.
I kept trying to get the BMW to run but was not interested in doing too much over the gravel in the cold.
In April, I got my coach out of the barn and with the help of a friend and some block and tackle pulled the BMW into the heated barn. I kept at it, checking things. I borrowed a much better OBD2 reader than I own from a GMC friend and it didn't tell my anything useful. I had put new plugs in (8$us plugs) and that didn't help. Unplugging and plugging things back in, I must have done something. Because during a try-to-start in late May, I got a single bang, a double bang then an triple and against my feeling for the poor starter, I kept cranking and soon was at four, then five and then Six!! I let it get fully warm and drove it a ways. By-the-by, the clock in this thing says 365K(Km).
Their car is still here, and I have tried everything I could think of to get it back across the river. It gets driven it around the block (6 miles) about every other week. If some one knows a way to get this car across the border, I would be glad to hear about it.
Matt
Matt & Mary Colie - Chaumière -'73 Glacier 23 - Members GMCMI, GMCGL, GMCES
Electronically Controlled Quiet Engine Cooling Fan with OE Rear Drum Brakes with Applied Control Arms
SE Michigan - Near DTW - Twixt A2 and Detroit
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| Re: [GMCnet] CLOSURES IN TORONTO AREA [message #357855 is a reply to message #357851] |
Wed, 19 August 2020 09:43 |
Rob
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Location: Victoria, BC
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I don’t think very many Canadians are interested in letting the border re-open until things start to get under control in the USA... Right now - that appears to be VERY far off.
Rob
Victoria, BC
76 Royale - Rear Twins/Dry Bath
> On Aug 19, 2020, at 7:23 AM, Matt Colie via Gmclist wrote:
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> Let's hope Canada opens soon.......
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> Matt
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> Matt & Mary Colie - '73 Glacier 23 - Members GMCMI, GMCGL, GMCES
> Electronically Controlled Quiet Engine Cooling Fan
> OE Rear Drum Brakes with Applied Control Arms
> SE Michigan - Twixt A2 and Detroit
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| Re: [GMCnet] CLOSURES IN TORONTO AREA [message #357877 is a reply to message #357851] |
Thu, 20 August 2020 08:24 |
GMC.LES
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Registered: April 2014
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Matt,
The only people that can easily get across the border at this time are commercial truckers and a limited number of people in the medical profession who are employed In both countries. Also, any Canadian still in the USA has the right to return home. All you have to do is find one of the above who might be willing to take the BMW across for you.
Les Burt
Montreal
'75 Eleganza 26'
> On Aug 19, 2020, at 10:24 AM, Matt Colie via Gmclist wrote:
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> Let's hope Canada opens soon.......
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> I have a Canadian plate BMW X3 in my lot. It has been there since December. Mary's Canadian cousin and spouse come to Detroit (DTW) regularly to fly
> their boat that is moored in Miami. A typical trip is that they come here, visit, and we take then to departure in their car and bring the car back
> here. On the backhaul, we go and pick them up in their car and the have a short visit and they drive home.
>
> In January, this didn't work. It was colder than normal here. (Please fill in the trite expression you chose for really cold.) I could not get it to
> start. It would bang on one cylinder sometimes, but that was the best it would do. They got a rental to take home for the week that they were north
> and we undid that when they went south again. It was still cold, very cold. When they came north the next time, they brought their Florida car north
> (had to for insurance) and as the plague was arriving, they just went on through.
>
> I kept trying to get the BMW to run but was not interested in doing too much over the gravel in the cold.
>
> In April, I got my coach out of the barn and with the help of a friend and some block and tackle pulled the BMW into the heated barn. I kept at it,
> checking things. I borrowed a much better OBD2 reader than I own from a GMC friend and it didn't tell my anything useful. I had put new plugs in
> (8$us plugs) and that didn't help. Unplugging and plugging things back in, I must have done something. Because during a try-to-start in late May, I
> got a single bang, a double bang then an triple and against my feeling for the poor starter, I kept cranking and soon was at four, then five and then
> Six!! I let it get fully warm and drove it a ways. By-the-by, the clock in this thing says 365K(Km).
>
> Their car is still here, and I have tried everything I could think of to get it back across the river. It gets driven it around the block (6 miles)
> about every other week. If some one knows a way to get this car across the border, I would be glad to hear about it.
>
> Matt
> --
> Matt & Mary Colie - '73 Glacier 23 - Members GMCMI, GMCGL, GMCES
> Electronically Controlled Quiet Engine Cooling Fan
> OE Rear Drum Brakes with Applied Control Arms
> SE Michigan - Twixt A2 and Detroit
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| Re: [GMCnet] CLOSURES IN TORONTO AREA [message #358005 is a reply to message #357878] |
Mon, 24 August 2020 09:03 |
GMC.LES
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Trying to find a Canadian in the US right now is akin to a needle in a haystack. I suggest you have someone ask around from the Canadian side of the border. You might have increased luck finding someone who knows a person who knows another. . . . .
Les Burt
Montreal
'75 Eleganza 26'
> On Aug 20, 2020, at 9:51 AM, Matt Colie via Gmclist wrote:
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> GMC.LES wrote on Thu, 20 August 2020 09:24
>> Matt,
>> The only people that can easily get across the border at this time are commercial truckers and a limited number of people in the medical
>> profession who are employed In both countries. Also, any Canadian still in the USA has the right to return home. All you have to do is find one of
>> the above who might be willing to take the BMW across for you.
>>
>> Les Burt
>> Montreal
>> '75 Eleganza 26'
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> Les,
>
> Thanks,
> I have been trying to find a car hauler that was going to Canada to pick up from a Canadian plant but have had no luck at all.
> I even tried to get it put on the cross river ferry that carries hazardous cargo. No luck there at all.
> I know that there used to be a group of medical people that worked on both sides of the river, but I have had no luck in locating any at all.
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> This is an interesting and completely unanticipated problem. That would go on this long is also strange. I have a good bet that Michigan will ease
> up after the election.
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> Matt
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> Electronically Controlled Quiet Engine Cooling Fan with OE Rear Drum Brakes with Applied Control Arms
> SE Michigan - Near DTW - Twixt A2 and Detroit
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