While in Nova Scotia my cousin Bill and I had the opportunity to visit both Rollie MacDonald’s and Donald Chishom race shops. Andrew the crew chief for Rollie’s team and George the crew chief for Donald’s cars, were a great help with questions I had. These were shops that looked like mini McColl race shops with multiple awesome looking race cars….and awesome facilities.
It seems that Port City is a popular builder for these cars although other builders are supplying cars for the Maritime Pro Stock Tour racers.
It looks like our car will be legal, but more than likely lack some of the high dollar race parts these teams will be using like the 2 speed $13,000 transmission. We will be running a 2 speed Richmond but doesn’t compare to the machine technology in the transmission the teams I met will be running.
I am looking forward to heading east for this the IWK 250, we need to raise the funds to make it happen and then give it our best shot with what we have. Not everyone has a brand new car, but many do. Being in that race, near the town I was born, Truro, with many of my family there, will be a big win for us. What happens on the track will be no different than any other night of racing……although it sure would be nice to once race a Late Model that is state of the art. Meanwhile our Late Model is being worked on and it will be much better than the car we ran the past 3 years. More on this race and our Modified and Late Model progress very soon.
….here is one of the cars in Donald Chisholm’s shop.