Labour Day Weekend at Raceway Park, Prince Edward Island - hard to believe it's closing in on 40 years that we've been doing this annual trek. We left Cape Breton at 3:45 PM Friday and managed to just catch the 7:30 ferry to the land of Red Mud, Potatoes and Anne of Green Gables. After a few beer and too much food on Friday night we took the 5 minute drive to the track on Saturday AM and unloaded the Camaro. First pass was a 9:58 @ 141.77.
After 4 more passes on Saturday all between 9.53 and 9.57 we entered the Gamblers race with a 9.53 dial. Unfortunately an oil leak from the distributor gasket got us pushed off the starting line and back to the pits. Changing out the paper gasket for an o-ring cured that problem and we were all ready for eliminations on Sunday
After two time trials Sunday AM we put the 9.53 dial back on the window and made our qualifying pass. That put us in the #2 spot on what looked like the "easy side" of the ladder and it did pay off with a couple of round wins. Anyhow, when we got down to 12 cars Lenny was a little red at .497 when he ran the #1 qualifier and we were back in the trailer.
We decided to stay an extra night to watch the NASCAR race on TV and do a little more eating and partying. What we didn't know was there was a "Black Eyed Peas" concert in Charlottetown Sunday night and when we got back to the ferry Monday AM there was a HUGE lineup to board the ferry(below). That killed most of the day and we never got home until suppertime yesterday. But it was still a FUN weekend.
One thing I didn't mention was the fact it rained hard all the way from the Ferry Terminal to home. We caught up with and passed this bone stock Model T with a California plate on the highway between the ferry and New Glasgow. An older couple were wrapped in blankets and drenched to the bone and tooling along at about 45 MPH.