God Bless All The Men & Women Who Have Kept Our Country Free….Here & Around The World Grandpa and Grandma, we thank you for your sacrifice, for going off to war, to stop the evil that was ever present in the world we live. Thank you for giving us the country we live in today……….I […]
Author Archives: Gary Elliott
Night To Celebrate. Sunset Speedway Banquet Tonight……….In her Rookie season, with a well used hand me down Mini Stock, Lauren did an awesome job driving the car beyond it’s potential. There wasn’t a night all season that she didn’t drive the car as if it was a potential feature winner. Her consistent, aggressive, clean, hard […]
2014 race season is over. Our pit crew is getting some rest. I am busy with the task of getting our sponsors back on board for 2015. Most sponsors are, but I’m still waiting to hear from one proposal and two existing sponsors. They were very supportive in 2014 contributing to our best season since […]
2014 Schedule 37 Races Scheduled Modified To Support 100% OSCAAR Mod Schedule……Late Model 18 Shows….Modified 19 AS we head into our 46th year of non stop racing, this season has a few exciting things to look forward to. We are very close to a milestone of 700 consecutive nights racing. We have a total of […]
Story Behind……. Super Modified Feature Win Glen Schurr A Hero And Inspiration My parents took my sister Bev and I to stock car races when I was 5 years old. The first time I set my eyes on those noisy cars I was hooked. During the early years I had many favorite drivers, no one […]
My First Race Car V. W. Cayuga Speedway introduced a new stock car division called Mini Stocks. I wanted badly to race and this seemed to be the perfect opportunity. I was living at Nonies place at the time. We weren’t married yet. We basically built this car in their back yard. Mr. and Mrs. […]
Preparing for Opening Day Roller Painting In 1970 Nonie I got married on February 21st. She didn’t want to mess up racing…perfect…we still used Nonie’s dad and mom’s back yard for working on our car. I always painted the car with a roller. We used that on all our demo derby cars and it worked. […]
Nonie Loads the Pick Up Tow-Bar We went to a pick up truck to tow our VW. The paint scheme was the same again only I had Hills Roofing for my main sponsor. That was my uncle this time who would help us out. Nonie packs the truck as we get ready for a trip […]
My First Demolition Derby..July 29th 1967…Win!! 55 Chev This was my first time ever on a race track. It was at Flamboro Speedway on July 29th 67′. I always painted my cars with the name “Color Me 1st”. On this one, I put powered by Honda on the front fender and yeah Dodge on the […]
Flamboro Speedway….1968 57 Chev This Chev let me dwon. It quit and wouldn’t restart. There were always lots of cars in the Flamboro Wreck Em races and unless you had a good running car you were beat. I bashed with many guys who liked the big heavy tanks, Mecurys, Buicks and full size GM’s. They […]
Demo Derby Win at Acton Speedway Fall 69′ 59 Chev When I got to Acton Speedway, this 59 Chev was for sale for $50. I bought it and won $125 for the Wreck Em race. The reason I took Chevy’s with sixes was because they always started when they got hot. My goal was to […]