By BOB ENGLISH Thursday, July 28, 2005 Updated at 11:26 AM EDT Globe and Mail Update 'Why, I tell ya . . . first you couldn't see it fer goin' . . . then she fell flatter 'n a flounder." That quote is from How To Brickle - The New Brunswick Funny Book , a slim satirical volume published in 1977 that chronicles, with bitter-flavoured Down East humour, the brief -- and for local taxpayers expensive -- saga of the gull-winged Bricklin SV-1 safety sports car built in that province from 1974 to '76. When smooth-talking American entrepreneur Malcolm Bricklin finally retreated south of the border, leaving behind some $35-million in debt -- much of it owed to the provincial government -- Bricklin Canada Ltd. had built fewer than 3,000 cars. But if Bricklin disappointed many in New Brunswick, he delighted at least one Ontario youngster. Ray Sharpe

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