On Friday night we had our first run in Jason Legge’s 1988 Monte Carlo. Corey and Ron brought it to the track and Marty, Paul and I helped get it ready. The full story will be on Diary of a Season 2015 very soon. It was a night for shake down only, first time this […]
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THUNDER CAR FRIDAY FULL THROTTLE SPEEDWAY We will be racing one of Jason Legge’s Thunder Cars this Friday night at Full Throttle Speedway. The car will soon be lettered up in Quaker State colors. Thanks to Glenn, Cory, Scoob and Jason for getting it ready for me. I am looking for to driving for Jason. […]
Full Throttle Friday night was the coldest its been since February, well it sure seemed like it. Minus one, and zero most of the time. We had more trouble trying to keep warm than anything else, but we had a fun night and learned a ton of things. We do know for sure that 8″ […]
Tonight we will debut our Late Model at Full Throttle Speedway. We hope to run every Late Model show in 2015, and can accomplish this with the help of Jason Legge and Glen Schnurr who will fill in for me while I am driving the Modified. The weather looks great and some of our crew, […]
I am very happy to announce that Jason Legge Racing and Gary Elliott Motorsports has teamed up for 2015 to run the full Late Model schedule at Sauble Speedway. Jason is driving 3 of the 10 nights in our Quaker State Impala, while I race in the OSCAAR Modified series. I will run the other […]
High School seminar a great success. Special thanks to Peter De New for having us at the school and all the students that made it a fun and learning experience. The students were very courteous. None were on their phones or texting, they were tentative and got into some work as well. Two classes changed […]
We are proud to have our Late Model at West Dale high school in Hamilton. We were invited by Peter De New to come for Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. Monday was mostly orientaton, showing the students the safety equipment built in the car, explaining the suspension, shocks, why we use stagger and then capped each […]
We had a great day at Innisfil Beach being part of Cruisefest, seeing all the boys and girls from the Innisfil Beach Cruisers. Billy, Karen and Buttons joined me for the day. It got very hot, actually seemed like July at times. The humidity was crazy for May and the threat of rain was throughout […]
Our 3rd show of the year is May 9th with the Innisfil Beach Cruisers at Innisfil Park from 9 am until 3 pm, and then we head quickly to Full Throttle Speedway, driving right by one of my all time favorite tracks, NASCAR’s Sunset Speedway. I know they will miss me, but they have close […]
Last year our car was declared legal, and the roof rake passed tech. However, for 2015 the body height rule, measured 10 inches back from the windshield is suppose to be 45″. Ours was 45 at the back of the roof and only 42 at the 10″ point. Ron Easton did some fabricating, to get […]
We got our Late Model back from Creative Edge, and once again Steve and the boys did an awesome job. This paint scheme is different than any before, but similar to 2011. I like it very much and know all my sponsors will be happy with the car and the look. Marty Hagen came over […]
Thanks to the hard work of one of my crew members, and crew chief, Marty Hagen, our car is ready to be lettered. The Modified is getting lettered now and will be done soon. I will be posting my 2015 agressive schedule very soon, so watch for it and other interesting things happening for the […]