GETTING READY

Hi, everyone!

I'm at the Denver airport, waiting to catch a flight home. I just spoke to service managers, general managers, and technicians at Brakes Plus' annual awards banquet, and it went great.

The car is close to being race-ready. Charlie was at the shop last week, setting up and installing the clutch and servicing the transmission. Eddie and Ozzie were there getting everything ready to run, and we fired it up to make sure it's good to go for the Frank Maratta Auto & Cycle Show this weekend in Hartford, Connecticut, which happens to be Permatex's corporate home. Alan was in the car for the fire-up, and let's just say he loved it! Charlie, Eddie, Scott, and I then loaded it in the rig for the trip to Hartford.

Todd's going to join us at the show, then the car will head to ProStart Race Cars in New Jersey, where Todd will be fitted for the cockpit. I won't be making that trip. I'll be at the Carroll Center For the Blind the week before and week after the Maratta show, where I'll be learning to use a computer – the Internet, Word, Excel, everything. Stay tuned – the season's almost here!

Work At The Shop

Hey Everyone,

We had a head we had to send out to BAE for service. Got a couple of cranks getting checked too. Mitch & our buddy Rich from In A Flash Welding have been working this week on redoing the exhaust in the Freightliner. It was in desperate need of a muffler & Mitch redesigned it so we can build a storage box under the truck to haul some tables. Todd went to Impact Racing this week to get measured for his firesuit. Charlie is going to come out of the North country early next week to help get ready for Maratta's Auto & Cycle Show in Hartford, CT on Feb. 5-7. We'll all be at the show throughout the weekend with the start up of the racecar on Sunday afternoon. In a couple weeks I'm going to Denver, CO to speak on behalf of Brakes Plus. Looking forward to the trip & hoping I don't get snowed in! I don't ski.

Talk again on Monday & thanks again for checking in.

Jay

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Hey Everybody!

Happy New Year, I hope everyboy had a great Christmas & New Year. Temperatures have been consistently in the twenties here on the Cape for the last couple of weeks so we're all moving kinda slow. I've been in the office working the phones, out in the shop cleaning & organizing, and tomorrow I'm bringing a short block in & going to disassemble it, get the crank shaft in, and make sure the cylinders are happy. We're going to get to work in freshing up some cylinder heads too. Alan Hadfield has been over helping to clean up the clutch area and getting ready to grind some discs.

Thanks for checking in, we'll get back at you in the next couple days.

Jay