This Saturday Flamboro Speedway will open the doors to the track for practice. Our team hopes to make it out. There are still quite a few things left to do and at this point we are not certain we’ll have the things done to get us to the practice session.
If not we will get some laps in early on opening day. I don’t like to rush things, and though we are miles ahead of 2016, we are still a long way away from being ready to test our car.
The biggest things is final scaling on the Late Model, getting the trailer loaded with tools etc. That will the biggest task of all. The trailer has had it’s annual safety, but needs a few hours to load everything, tools, parts and supplies…..and a good cleaning.
The Modified is close, but it still needs 10 hours work on it to be ready for practice and that won’t happen for sure this weekend, although it wasn’t planned anyhow.
I feel bad that we might not make practice day, but it takes a lot of hours to get ready for a season, and though we have done great, we are a few days short of being ready, Louie has been the catalyst making it out twice a week, but we need 4 or 5 people twice a week to finish all we have left to do.
I will post on Diary of a Season 2017 soon, with updates of our team and shows we will be doing.
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Race Time Radio……Listen Sunday’s 7 till 9
Thank you Joe and Sue Chisholm for having me on your program. I had a great time talking about our 2017 race program, our sponsors, crew, schedule, show dates and updates on our car.
Joe and I go back a long way when he was owner of Sauble Speedway. His co-anchor, Jason Thom, owns Sauble now.
It was a fun time with Joe and Jason.
Updates coming soon on Diary of a Season 2017.
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Late Model Getting Closer For Practice Day
After the car show we had a long list of things left to do that included making sure we fit all the measurements and templates for APC. In this picture our challenge was getting the proper nose location, height and distant, out from the wheel. Louie and Jerry spent a lot of time on that, while Lloyd and Rick were busy working on the Modified.
Our schedule will be released soon, and includes 5 APC races for 2017. We will also race the full Late Model season at Flamboro Speedway, the full OSCAAR Modified schedule, with Rob DiVenanzo filling in on nights we can’t be at the Modified shows.
Our team came over last weekend and we got a lot done on both the Late Model. We have another list to do now, in hopes of having both cars done by April 10th weekend, as well as our trailer.
Here is a picture from last weeks work day……thanks for visiting, and soon I will be updating Diary of a Season 2017.
Motorama Custom Car Show…Great Success
Thanks to my crew, Louie, Lloyd, Stephen, Lucy and Randall for helping with set up and spending some hours at the show this past weekend.
It was a great show, lots of beautiful race cars and the usual amazing classic hot rods and custom cars and trucks.
Many friends and fans dropped by commenting on our car. It looks awesome and I’m so glad we were in this years car show.
We have a lot to do on the Late Model to get it ready for practice, mostly in set up. The Modified also needs set up repairs as well as a leaking release bearing fixed.
Practice day is less than 6 weeks away.
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Motorama Custom Car Show…March 10-12
We have our car at the Motorama Custom Car Show in Mississauga at the International Building on Airport Road.
The show ends tomorrow around 4:30. If you come down drop by and see our car and team.
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2017 Version of our Quaker State Pro Late Model
Got the car back from Steve Lyons at Creative Edge Graphics and it has quickly become very popular with many of our fans and friends of racing.
We still have some things to do before the Motorama Custom Car Show next week at the International Building at Derry Road and Airport Road, Mississauga, but it is 90% race ready, and that puts us a million miles ahead of 2016.
Special thanks again to my crew Louie, Lloyd, Stephan and Randall for helping get us ready for the show….and to Steve Cashmore for his amazing help.
Also to all my sponsors who are on board with us. We are still looking for one or two more sponsors and we will be set.
I thank God for all He has done in my life and giving me the opportunity to race and sending me so many great people.
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Body Complete…Off To Creative Edge For Make-Up
Thanks to Louie Halliday, for amazing dedication, spending a ton of time helping me with rebuilding our Pro Late Model starting on November 27th. Louie loves what he’s doing but has been a huge blessing to me.
My other crew members have also helped a lot.
In the past few weeks Louie, Stephan, Lucy, Lloyd and Randall have all helped when they could, getting our car ready for lettering this week. Stephan and Lucy have been very good making it here many times in the past few weeks, contributing anywhere they could to get our long long list down to just a handful of items.
This Monday Feb 27th, Steve Passmore also chipped in a lot helping Louie and I finish most of the final few things left to be done on the car.
The only things left are…the exhaust out the side door, it’s 75% done, the engine location, it might be too low or high, not a lot of rack clearance….and finally, setting up the chassis for practice sometime in April. I am miles ahead of where I was last year and very thankful to God for sending me awesome help, providing me with generous sponsors and taking stress out of my life.
My schedule will be posted likely by the car show, but really depends on finances to make a few of the more expensive shows like Jurkasa or Petty Speedway.
Hope to have that sorted out by the car show or soon after.
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David Sets Timing On Our New 604 Engine
On Wednesday Feb 23rd Louie and I got a lot done on the car. I had a fairy aggressive list of things to do on this day and we worked well together getting it all done, and prepared the engine for David to come after his work and set the timing.
Here David, in his non mechanic attire, adjusts the timing for a short break in period that will be done on the weekend.
All that is left to do on our car is mount the body, and install the rear bumper. Hoping we get enough crew to finish this task so the car is ready to head to Creative Edge for lettering.
Thank you Louie for a great day Wed, and to David for coming after his long work day to get the engine fired up and set…..more news soon.
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Crew Working Hard To Get Car Ready For Motorama Custom Car Show
We have been busy since mid November working on the Late Model getting it ready, not only for Motorama Custom Car Show, but for the race season as well. The things we have accomplished so far will give us a race ready Pro Late Model by late March.
Special thanks to all my crew, especially Louie who has lead the charge in helping me get the car ready for this show.
Randall, Stephen, Lloyd and Lucy have been a great help as well.
Special thanks to Josh Watson, of Watson’s Garage, for getting the painting done on schedule. We also had our engine fixed at Stefco Engines, and we got that in last weekend. David is coming over tonight to set the timing and help with the break in of the engine.
Our plans are to have the body on for February 26th, this coming weekend, and then load it to head to Creative Edge for his masterful touch.
Thanks to all my sponsors for their awesome support, as well as my crew.
Thanks for visiting our site….more to come soon.
So Thankful For All Those Who Helped Make It Happen
I am very thankful to God, for His graciousness to me, giving me a beautiful family and great friends. I thank my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ for His love and mercy in my life on this planet. I am truly blessed.
Over the years my family, friends and sponsors have made it possible for me to have such an awesome racing career. It’s been a great journey. Our two Championships and 39 feature wins to date are still awesome achievements for my team.
I want to thank my family, Nonie, David and Shirley for their constant support over the years. My current crew, Lloyd, Louie, Stephen, Doug, Randall and Paul have been incredible this year. In the past many men, and sponsors, since 1969, have given me the opportunity to race hard for 1226 race nights and make the past 777 events without a miss. We hope to hit 800 consecutive starts this year, or early 2018….God willing.
We also have 3 other goals to reach. We are sitting on 39 different tracks raced, 39 feature wins and 39 seasons of 100% attendance. Reaching 40 in all those would be a milestone for our legacy. 2017 should be an awesome season for our team. I look forward the start of our season, and the exciting schedule we have planned, it will be released soon.
Right now we are planning to go into the Motorama Car Show in mid March. Our team has been working hard on for the show the past 2 months.
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