This year has been a year of changes, the biggest being the switchover of drivers on the Wheelie Fun wheelstanding cameo pickup.

Over the past winter, our former driver and team mate Mike had decided to leave the team to pursue his dreams of striking out on his own. This meant Rob, who designed Wheelie Fun would finally get a chance to get behind the wheel. Rob is an experienced racer with a lot of seat time in other categories including promod, not to mention a few Wally’s under his belt. This however was a new kind of excitement and now the “Wildman” is back! He earned that nickname while driving his Dodge Daytona, a short wheel based advanced ET car that gave him a few wild rides that he managed to keep shiny side up. Rob was very diligent and took Wheelie Fun to Eagle Motorplex in Ashcroft, BC, his home track, nearly every weekend in May, and made many practice passes before licensing as an official wheelstander driver in front of NHRA officials. He says that driving it on two wheels is a thrill all its own, with a whole new skill set from driving a promod type vehicle. Looking through a small window while in the air, steering with brakes instead of the steering wheel but at the same time getting ready to go back to the steering wheel the moment of landing. That takes even more control and concentration than just going fast and trying to win. Luckily as Wheelie Fun’s chief designer/builder, Rob knows exactly what went where and why so it made the learning curve on driving it a little easier than if he was new to the vehicle.

Rob has now already performed a successful show in Sechelt, BC on the weekend of Aug 8,9 2009 and is set to appear in “DRAG WARS” in Grande Prairie, Alberta on Aug 21,22,23 2009 and then follow up with “THUNDER IN THE VALLEY” Drayton Valley Alberta on Sept 4,5,6 2009. This will close a fairly short first season for Rob but as we put Wheelie Fun in the trailer for the last time this year, we will already be dreaming about next summer, and taking requests for appearances on next year’s schedule. If you are a track official wishing to book a date, please contact us through the email on this website

and do so as early as possible to avoid disappointment.

Thanks to all you Wheelie Fun fans out there, we love bringing the show to you and we get such great feedback everywhere we go. When we were teens in the 1970’s, there was some great drag racing and drag race entertainment going on. Events like 64 Funny Cars, and great entertainers such as Jungle Jim Lieberman were what fueled our summers. Memories of nitro and burning rubber and music by the Cars! Anyway I’m getting carried away. What I’m trying to say is that we do our best to make our show exciting but also funny and entertaining for all ages, and that is our salute to all those great memories of summers long ago.Bye for now, come out and see us again soon!

Lesley

driver/ Mini-Me (wheelstanding tow vehicle)