I am very fortunate to have so many good associate sponsors for our race team. Grind Stone joined us in 2008, our 40th year racing, and has been a great sponsor with us. If you wonder why I have 2 landscaping sponsors it’s because the owners of both Timber Green and Grind Stone are father and son.
Jay will drive my Late Model this year at Flamboro Speedway on the days I am in my Modified. He is looking forward to filling in for me.
They do not have a web site yet, although their logo is on our site. Once it comes up I will put a link to it.
Category Archives: Late Model History
Timber Green Returns For 2016
My good friend and brother in Christ, Henry Linde has agreed to sponsor us again in 2016. Timber Green started with us in 2008 and this will be their 9th season sponsoring our team.
We are very thankful for the support from Timber Green, and though they do not have a web site, their logo is posted on our site. They are awesome producers of excellent landscaping, patio’s and other home improvements. You can call them at 905-689-8917
Thanks for supporting our sponsors when ever possible.
JDS Insurance Back With GEM In 2016
I am proud to announce that JDS Insurance will be with us again in 2016. It will be their 13th season with us and we are very proud to run their logo again in 2016.
Click on their logo on the right side of this page to see the many type of insurnance they offer their customers. Tell them Gary sent you and thank you.
Lincoln Welders Back For 15th Season
Gary Elliott Motorsport is proud to announce that Lincoln Welders is back with us for 2016. This will be our 15th season sponsored by this amazing company. We are proud to run the Lincoln Welders logo on both our race cars, and especially making them our primary sponsor on our OSCAAR Modified.
Lincoln Welders has offered a discount for all racers. Message me to know what the discount is, or if you need a contact with Lincoln to buy their welding products.
Metal Coaters Returns for 2016
Gary Elliott Motorsports is proud to announce that Metal Coaters has returned as sponsor of our Modified for 2016. They do awesome work in Chroming and refinishing almost anything metal, and their prices are very good.
Check out their site by clicking on their logo on the right side of this page.
IWK 250 A Dream………Hope We Can Make It A Reality
Racing at Riverside International Speedway, near the town I was born, Truro Nova Scotia, is a dream for this summer. Not only is it near my home town, but also right in the middle of where many of my realtives live.
My trip to Nova Scotia last week will hopefully produce a few needed sponsors to make this awesome journey a reality.
Meanwhile both our Late Model and Modified are in the repair shops awaitng completion. It looks like I will be very much behind this year as I wait for sponsor support and getting the cars finished.
In years passed we were in good shape getting the cars ready for the car show. This year has been a bit of a struggle but we are working hard on getting ready of our 48th consecutive season. More updates soon….thanks for visiting our site.
Donald Chisholm 2015 Parts for Trucks Pro Stock Tour Champion
We were fortunate to have George, the crew chief for Donald Chisholm, not only tell us some amazing stories but let me take some pictures of their shop. I never asked Andrew, my camera wasn’t with me. There were some nice cars at Rollie’s shop as well. They will no doubt be strong rivalries.
Donald Chishom was the 2015 Parts for Trucks Pro Stock Tour Champion. Here is his banner proudly hung up in their shop.
Maritime Pro Stock Tour Cars….Very Stout
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.
IWK 250 Getting Closer To Being A Reality
I had a great opportunity this week to go to Nova Scotia and look deeper into making the IWK 250 a reality for our team.
My cousin Bill Elliott offered to take me around to some of his friends who owned businesses in Nova Scotia.
I had proposals made out to give to potential sponsors. They were all exactly the same. I was willing to run the sponsor name on our car all year, as well as put their logo on our web site. Joe Chisholm from Race Time Radio offered to interview any sponsors we got on his weekly Canada wide radio program.
In total we saw six businesses. There were two that were not available to see, we left proposals for them to consider.
We visited 2 race shops. Rollie MacDonald, who owns King Freight, had a nice shop in Pictou, and Donald Chisholm who owns Nova Construction and Riverside International Speedway had his shop in Antigonish. We were able to ask questions to the 2 crew chiefs Andrew from Rollies team and George from Donalds team. Both teams had 3 to 5 cars in their shops and these cars were beautiful, well prepared and fully equipped. We had a great time meeting all these awesome people, who even gave us info we needed to get our car close to what it needs to be to race with these wild Pro Late models.
When we were done on Sunday we had accumulated 4 show presentations. We plan on being at the Walmart in Antigonish on the Friday night before the race. It is located very near the track. We will be at the Canadian Tire store in Truro, both of those for our sponsor Quaker State. We couldn’t get any sponsorship through Nova Trucks in Truro, but Rod wants us for a display on the Wednesday or Thursday, the same day we will be at the Canadian Tire. The other show we are committed to is in Bass River Nova Scotia for a fund raiser to support the local Fire Department.
I can only make this race with help from local businesses in Nova Scotia. The 8 proposals we gave out will hopefully be fruitful for us. My cousin Larry will work with Bill on another potential sponsor who they both know very well who operated his business out of Halifax, but lives close to my cousins.
I will update this big race once commitments start coming in. The IWK 250 will cost us $9000 and we need to raise that to make it happen. I’m praying about it, have been for all our racing endeavours for 2016. I hope it comes together. If so, it will be one of the biggest if not the most prestigious high light racing events of my 48 year career……..more info to come once things fall in place.
Andy Bathgate My Favorite NHL Player Passed Away…God bless You
This week Andy Bathgate my favorite all time hockey player passed away. He was an amazing graceful gentleman player and my hero. My favorite sports number was 9 because of him.
As everyone knows, I had two racers who stuck out for me as heros Glen Schurr who inspired me so much I ran #36 on my race cars from the beginning.
In 2009 I had 2 Late Models and one was #9. I called Mr. Bathgate and asked him if I could put the Ranger logo and his number on the hood of my car. It was the same I had been doing for decades with “36 for Schurr”. He said yes and asked me for my address and sent me some pictures of him.
I followed him very closely. New York Rangers were my favorite team because of Andy Bathgate although Leafs were a close second.
I was so excited when he came to Toronto. I remember he came to Leafs for Dick Duff and Bob Nevin. Don McKenney also came, Andy was the Captain of the Rangers and Don the Captain of Boston then. Leafs won the cup that year taking the series in 7 over Detroit.
I was watching game 7 when the puck was in the Leaf end and it came back to the point but it bounced over, or got by Pete Goegon. Andy Bathgate got a break away and scored the Stanley Cup-winning goal for the 1964 Maple Leafs. It was the first goal of the game and the Leafs won 4-0.
When he scored I yelled, going nuts. I made such a loud noise it scared my Dad who was in the kitchen playing euchre. He came running to the living room and said “what’s going on, why were you screaming so loud”? I realized for a second I might have woke people up in the next city, so I said in a shy but happy voice “Andy Bathgate just scored for the Leafs”. Dad looked at me and shook his head saying “what the hell is wrong with you”!!! I was just excited and Dad was okay after that.
Some of his NHL stats:
* Played for Rangers for 10 years
* Won the Hart Trophy, MVP in the NHL scoring 40 goals in 1959
* Tied for points lead with Bobby Hull in 62, Hull won the Art Ross, he had more goals
* Had 56 assists and 28 goals in 1962
* Scored the winning goal in 64 playoffs game 7 giving Leafs the cup
* 1967 NHL expansion season he went to Pittsburg Penguins and scored their first NHL goal
* Scored in 11 consecutive games. That record lasted until Gretzky broke it
* He is famous for contributing to one of the greatest innovations in NHL history. Renowned for the strength of his slap shot, during a game against the Montreal Canadiens, Bathgate shot the puck into the face of Jacques Plante, forcing Plante to receive stitches. When Plante returned to the ice, he was wearing a mask. That started a trend that continues to this day
* WHL MVP (1970)
* A slap shot at Jacques Plante took the glove off Plante putting both puck & glove in the net
* In 1998, he was ranked number 58 on The Hockey News’ list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players
* He was ranked No. 8 on the all-time list of New York Rangers in the book 100 Ranger Great (2009)
* His sweater was retired on Feb 22nd 2009
* Inducted into the NHL Hall of Fame in 1978