I’ve got friends in the north near Kirkland Lake, Ontario and they do a similar annual fundraiser with a Volkswagon Beetle - they’ve been doing it for years with the same car. I think it’s for fundraising for their local fire department.
Kenogami & District Volunteer Fire Brigade - Herbie Car Fundraiser
The car is cleaned up and cleared for environmental pollutants and then fished out every spring and repeated again the next winter. I always thought it was funny seeing that old yellow car on the ice.
It was always a sight to see this time of year … there’s only one highway in this part of the province - Highway 11 - when you are driving north past Kenogami Lake (which is near Kirkland Lake) and you go over the bridge there, you can see this little yellow car on the ice.
It’s more or less a tradition for northerners now … we expect to see Herbie on the ice when we are driving by in the late winter / early spring.
I’ve got friends in the north near Kirkland Lake, Ontario and they do a similar annual fundraiser with a Volkswagon Beetle - they’ve been doing it for years with the same car. I think it’s for fundraising for their local fire department.
Kenogami & District Volunteer Fire Brigade - Herbie Car Fundraiser
The car is cleaned up and cleared for environmental pollutants and then fished out every spring and repeated again the next winter. I always thought it was funny seeing that old yellow car on the ice.
That’s amazing! Herbie looks to be in decent shape for what he’s been through.
Well, compared to being cut in half with a laser, driving up a skyscraper, fuelled with Irish Coffee, stuffed full of bananas and Mayan treasure…
Hes well away from all the salt on the roads, and gets an annual car wash + soak. Can’t hurt.
It was always a sight to see this time of year … there’s only one highway in this part of the province - Highway 11 - when you are driving north past Kenogami Lake (which is near Kirkland Lake) and you go over the bridge there, you can see this little yellow car on the ice.
It’s more or less a tradition for northerners now … we expect to see Herbie on the ice when we are driving by in the late winter / early spring.