We need help!

It's time for The Garage Guy to seek help! We are desperately in need of a roaming sales person to represent the Meguiar's line to car dealerships & detail shops in the Toronto area. If you love cars and have a way with people, you might make a great addition to our team! Of course, we would love for you to have some experience in the car industry, a great personality & enthusiasm might be even more important!

Please e-mail me at sales@thegarageguy.ca

This P5 gets The Garage Guy's vote for sweetest ride at the show. 

The Garage Guy has been involved with a wide range of car clubs since it's inception. Since we now have a Mazda Protege5 in the fleet, we decided to poke our heads in at our first toprotege.com event. Actually, this was a joint Show & Shine with the toprotege.com crew and thegang from torontomazda3.com and was billed as a show.

My first impression is... WOW did I feel old! I think the average age was probably around 22 and a great big old guy who showed up with a kid in tow almost seemed out of place. That said, it was nice to put a few faces to some names & as always, see some great cars. I came away with a few ideas that we will try on our car & a few that we will stay away from! For my own projects, I still lean towards funtional mods rather than strictly visual ones.

Things are heating up around here!

Well, spring is here & The Garage Guy has been so busy out visiting shows, race tracks and other cool stuff that I haven't been able to update the Blog! Over the last 3 weeks, we have been to so many events it's hard to keep track. I just spent 3 days at ECP in Chicago learning about some incredible new professional car care products. ECP is the company that makes all of our detailing aids & The Protector line of products. I had heard that they were large, but I really had no idea. There are 23,000 new car dealers in the USA, and ECP provides all the car clean up products for 11,000 of them! Their training center is every detailer's dream, from the incredible Hydro Foam machine to the cabinets to the new products in development. I want to duplicate this place here in Ontario. Sorry I didn't get any pictures, but my camera doesn't take great indoors shots. Watch our main web site for some new products from ECP soon!

The Garage Guy got out last night to visit the new north Whitby weekly cruise night, hosted by the Road Legends Cruisers and East Side Mario's.

After missing the first cruise last week due to our own automotive calamity, I decided to take the boys up & have a walk around. I was very impressed that such a new cruise had so many cars. I would guess at about 40, but I didn't really count. I was too busy chasing the boys. Just a note for all you parents.... just because your boys might be used to going to car stuff with you doesn't mean that you should take 2 of them by yourself! Don't Touch!!

I'm looking forward to watching the cruise grow every Monday, and I'm hoping to sponsor a night later this summer! Hopefully next week I'll remember to charge the camera batteries & get some pictures instead of borrowing one from the Road Legends!

For more info on cruising in Durham and the Road Legends Cruisers, visit http://www.roadlegendscruisers.com/main.html

The Garage Guy visits Racing Against Drugs

Last week, Miss Shelby & I had the chance to spend a day speaking to kids about kart racing at the annual Racing Against Drugs event at Iroquois Park in Whitby. RAD is a community based drug and alcohol awareness program that has been run in Durham by the RCMP since 1998. Grade 5 students from across Durham Region are brought in to learn about a healthy lifestyle, showing racing as a great alternative.

The Mosport Kart Club hosts a booth each year & every day, a different young kart racer attends to tell the visitors about their experiences with racing as a fun family sport. Shelby had a great time & I think that she learned some great confidence lessons by speaking to groups of kids her own age.

You can learn more about RAD at http://autonet.ca/rad/Home.cfm and more about the Mosport Kart Club at http://www.mosportkartclub.com/index.htm

The Meguiar's Water Magnet drying towel soaks up 3 times the water of traditional terry cloth. This super soft towel has a nice black finished edge & really reduces your drying time & leaves a spot free finish. Best of all, it's value priced at only $16.99

The Garage Guy is proud to offer the complete line of Meguiar's car care products. "Full line" means that we've got all the cool stuff that your local super huge tire store chain doesn't carry!! 

Perry Ianuzzi in his weekend office 

The Garage Guy goes back to the racing world with Bouran Data Services & Team Mad Macs

After 14 years away from road racing, I have returned!! Joining Bouran Data Services in their quest to expand from karts to cars, I spent the last weekend in the paddock with Team Mad Macs and their fleet of race cars. I have to say that the return was nothing less than incredible. I met and worked with the most wonder bunch of people, that made me remember why I continue to be interested in this crazy hobby. I am amazed at how easily we fit into this team of pros. When the weather threw a few curve balls, I had the opportunity to swing into action with these guys while helping with several tire changes & with the reconstructive surgery on a Civic following a heavy off track excursion. The team works well with each other & I was impressed as a newcomer that I fit into the flow of work right away while pulling apart the bent racer. It felt like I had been working with this team for years. I'm looking forward to the rest of the summer!

The Garage Guy is going racing once again!