Stephen, Lucy, Rob, Buttons and I headed to London early Saturday morning to do a show at the Home Depot for Quaker State.
It was a good turn out, very busy with customers in and out all the time we were there from 10am till 3pm.
Rob, our newest team member, was awesome greeting customers who came by our car.
Kids got to sit in the car and we gave away many autograph cards.
Mark Reed joins me in this picture by Stephen. Mark has been looking after me through my Quaker State sponsorship for many years. So glad he made it out.
Diary of a Season 2017 has been updated…….Please consider buying a Hoodie or T-shirt to celebrate our Road to 800, reflecting on our streak of 777 consecutive nights, hoping to hit 800 this year……Thanks for visiting our site
Practice Day Good Considering All Our Work
After completely stripping our car, and carefully putting it back together, it was a pleasant surprise to find that our first set of hot laps were fair and the second not bad.
There were a few issues with the car.
The brake pedal was travelling too far in the first session, so we put the car on jack stands and bled the brakes.
There was an oil leak, coming from the right side rocker cover, and the carb had a slight hesitation. All easy fixes for opening night May 6th.
Special thanks to Lloyd, Louie, Stephen, Rick, Laurie and Rob for coming out to help with the track duties.
They did a great job and our team has generated a ton of enthusiasm making this year look like it will be fun.
I didn’t feel any performance difference in the car and that was disappointing. Maybe if we can keep up with some of the faster cars we’ll know how much our efforts moved us forward competition wise.
We know this was just a test, but it was a good one and I am very thankful for all we did since November and how well the car worked after being rebuilt.
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2017 Race Team Apparel
Here is the design of our new t-shirts and Hoodies.
Special thanks to Terry Dieter for his art work and Epic Race Wear for working with us to get the best price possible for our fans and friends.
T-shirts are $30 each, including HST.
Hoodies are $45 each including HST.
If you would like a t-shirt or Hoodies, please message me on fb or by email garyelliottmotorsports@gmail.com
You could also text or call me on my cell 905-928-8086
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Practice Day April 22nd
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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