Two weekends ago Louie and Stephen came by to finish stripping the Modified, leaving just a steel frame. Last Wednesday Louie and I made a dolly out of ply would and casters to move the chassis around. It’s now at Rival Sand Blasting in St.Catharines, then will get powder coated after. Next step is to […]
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I sent our Modified to Oakville Trailers for Ron Easton to do some work on the chassis, and make the new body panels needed for the car. He did a great job as always. Next step is to get it sand blasted and powder coated. Thanks for visiting our site
Special thanks to Jeff Warnes for coming to my place a few times over the past few weeks to do some cleaning and purging of trophies we’ve won over the years. Looks like we didn’t get rid of many, and we’ve given away a few in the past 2 years. We did fill a plastic […]
Well, it is down to the bare bones now. We wanted to do a face lift on our Modified and go for the Championship in 2018, our 50th year. Louie has been a great help getting the car stripped. We already have a new fuel cell, rad and electric fan, and we will order many […]
We have started on our 2018 race program. My goals are simple, go for the OSCAAR Modified title, and compete as competitively as we can in the Pro Late Model series at Flamboro with my son David…but with a new program there….more on that later. I wanted to get an early start because 2018 is […]
We had a great season with the Modified. Of the 9 features we ran, all nine were in the top 10 and four of those 9 in the 5. We had 3 heat wins and a few others in the top three. We moved into 5th in points on the last night of racing, giving […]
Here are some of my family, Gehrig, Megan, and Brianna, and crew, Lloyd, Louie, Stephen, Lucy, Ken and friends, at the start finish line for a few photos, courtesy of Ashley McCubbin. I had the honor, earlier, to take Ron Johnstone’s ashes for one lap around the Peterborough Speedway oval, while Amazing Grace was being […]
Well we did it, and God had His hand upon the outcome. How good was it to have our final night at maybe the biggest show, Autumn Colors Classic at Peterborough Speedway. We lost 3 races to rain, I accidentally called Jukasa Speedway a 2 race show and it was only one. we did get […]
2017
Our 800th Consecutive Night This Weekend…..At Autumn Colors Classic Peterborough Speedway…In The Mod
We will hit our 800th consecutive night of racing at the 3 day Autumn Colors Classic in Peterborough. Ironically our 700th consecutive night was also in the Modified at Sunset Speedway. I am very proud of this accomplishment and grateful to all those who have made it possible. First I thank God for providing me […]
We finished our 799th night at Flamboro with the car getting beat up pretty bad in the final feature with 15 to go. The full report will be on Diary of a Season 2017 on our Message Board, General Chat section. I re-injured my back and ribs, similar to 1999, so I will be very […]
We raced our 798th consecutive night at Sunset Speedway on Sunday the 24th of September. We have 2 more races to go to hit 800, Flamboro’s Octoberfest and then Autumn Colors on Thanksgiving Weekend. We had a great run in our Modified, starting 23rd and finishing 9th. I drove about as hard as I ever […]
Of our 1243 total race nights, we will hit our 797th in a row at Flamboro Speedway tonight. Then it’s off to Sunset Speedway for their year end Velocity with the Modified. The Velocity is a 2 day deal with qualifying today. Rob Di Venanzo will quality our Mod for me to keep our points […]