Naiman fifth in fair's media demolition derby

Fallbrook/Bonsall Village News correspondent Joe Naiman took fifth place in the San Diego County Fair's media demolition derby June 30.

Naiman drove a Buick Park Avenue; although he did not know the year, the odometer reading of 159,293 miles narrowed the year to after General Motors added the hundreds of thousands digit to odometers but before the conversion to digital odometers.

The demolition derby was the sixth for Naiman, but the first in which he had his own helmet. Earlier this year he purchased a helmet from a neighbor who sought to sell it at a discount before she moved to Oregon. Nai...