On Sunday night, while leading, our Modified quit on lap 24 of the 30 lap feature. No fuel to the carb. We found the handle for the fuel shut off valve missing on the rear deck, I replaced that part late Tuesday and headed to Flamboro for a test session. I was hoping the valve […]
Category Archives: 2016
Our cars were finished just in time for the big weekend at Flamboro Speedway. Thanks to my awesome crew and sponsors for getting our team ready for 2016. I decided to get a few extra laps on the Late Model by helping support OSCAAR’s Super Late Model show. We were well out of our league […]
Modified is finally home. I now have 2 cars that look alike. I am so pumped with the awesome wrap by Creative Edge. Steve Lyons and his team work hard to please me and sometimes I can be over the top fussy about how my cars look but Steve listens to what I want then […]
Late Model lettered and yes I am very happy. Thank you Steve Lyons and the staff at Creative Edge. My game plan every year was to bring out a car that was a little different than the year before. This won my heart makes me happy. I am relieved because I didn’t take a good […]
It was a break working on the Modified. I assumed it would be easy, and in some ways it was but it was incredibly tedious and at times was sucking the life out of me. Anyway it’s done now. I learned a lot working on the interior and outer panels. I love the look, the […]
2016
We Made Opening Night…Broke In The Engine & Some Front End Parts….All Fixed & Loaded For Lettering At Creative Edge
The season opener was quite a night. I wasn’t prepared at all. The full story is on Diary of a Season 2016, on our Message Board. Things didn’t go so good Saturday night but we got there and that was the main thing. Since then David dug in and really helped his Dad the past […]
Not getting my Late Model till mid April really made things hard for me the past few weeks. Over that time I had different people put a few hours to help. some an hour, some 2 or 3. My son David was crucial to me having a chance to be ready. He helped with some […]
The past few days have been good but hectic. I have been very fortunate to get some help here and there. Over the past 2 weeks I have been able to get help from Lloyd, David, Brian, Ron and tonight I was at MacDonald’s in Waterdown and asked 3 young boys, friends of my grand […]
It’s been a tough go this year and especially now trying to get ready for opening day. I have a lot left to do on the car and now down to 4 days. Some things left are installation of…..rocker panels, body braces, led, plug wires, return springs, oil temp gauge fitting, the annoying brake leak […]
Ran into some issues this weekend with wrong parts and problems with the water pump. I remembered when I bought my first 604 the passenger side timing cover bolt had to be ground down so the water pump would clear and fit tight against the block. I did grind it down, but unfortunately not enough. […]
More progress, but now that things are going together, more problems are popping up. That’s not uncommon when putting a car together before the season starts, but usually in the past I had 10 weeks…..we have less than 10 days now. Special thanks to Brian Watson for his help on Thursday night and my son […]
Special thanks to Ken Bayliss, Lloyd Lariviere and brothers James and Jason for helping get a few things off our list today. We couldn’t complete much of it because of missing or failed parts. The brake reservoir was leaking, never had one of those leak before, so the brakes couldn’t be bled. The water pump […]