Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Targa Celebrates Earth Day

Targa Newfoundland encourages all of our staff, business associates and competitors as individuals and team members to celebrate Earth Day by going the extra mile to recognize and take positive steps toward creating a healthier and more sustainable world.
Purchasing and using energy efficient and green products in our everyday lives not just on this significant day is a good step for all. Keeping you car in top shape, right down to the tires helps increase performance, reduces emissions and saves you money.
Reuse, Recycle, Reduce and Eliminate!
This year Targa will be implementing a green plan for our event which will start with our staff and reach to all competitors and crews and the communities in which we operate. This plan will grow as time moves on. We have been consulting with many outside agencies and will continue to improve this plan in a diligent manner.
We will be dealing with reducing our waste during the event and leaving all venues in a much better condition than before we arrived. Waste management is only a small piece of our plan. This program will be rolled out in June and we encourage all of our associates to think of better ways in which all can act positively to make Targa Newfoundland a leader in Environmental Stewardship.
We would appreciate any suggestions you may have toward this end and wish everyone a Happy Earth Day!

Monday, April 20, 2009

Targa Newfoundland on Twitter

We are now on Twitter.
Please click www.twitter.com/targanl to become a follower of our event. We will be posting news and updates on our twitter account as well.
Thank you

Monday, April 13, 2009

Top 25 Scene Stealers

Top 25 Scene Stealers
As part of their silver anniversary celebrations, David S. Wallens of Grassroots Motorsports Car Magazine published an article titled" 25 Scene Stealers" in the current May 2009 issue.
Targa Newfoundland is listed as one of the top 25 events that have defined the past 25 years of Grassroots Motorsports.
" Targa Newfoundland: Real Roads, Real Fast
Every year, a slew of cars run flat-out time trails on a few hundred miles of public streets. It almost sounds criminal, but it's not. The Targa Newfoundland brought European-style open road racing to Canada in 2002, and the event mixes fast competition stages and TSD-style transits with beautiful scenery. The rules also welcome a mix of machinery, from the latest factory-built hotrods to those from decades past."

http://www.grassrootsmotorsports.com/

Friday, April 3, 2009

Ford Motor Company History

The four Goldberg brothers, Lowell, Norman, Hiram, and Max, invented and developed the first automobile air-conditioner.

On July 17, 1946, the temperature in Detroit was 97 degrees. The four brothers walked into old man Henry Ford's office and sweet-talked his secretary into telling him that four gentlemen were there with the most exciting innovation in the auto industry since the
electric starter.

Henry was curious and invited them into his office. They refused and instead asked that he come out to the parking lot to their car.

They persuaded him to get into the car, which was about 130 degrees, turned on the air conditioner, and cooled the car off immediately.

The old man got very excited and invited them back to the office, where he offered them $3 million for the patent.

The brothers refused, saying they would settle for $2 million, but they wanted the recognition by having a label, 'The Goldberg Air-Conditioner,' on the dashboard of each car in which it was installed.

Now old man Ford was more than just a little anti-Semitic, and there was no way he was going to put the Goldberg's name on two million Fords.

They haggled back and forth for about two hours, and finally agreed on $4 million and that just their first names would be shown.

And so to this day, all Ford air conditioners show Lo, Norm, Hi and Max on the controls.