FINALLY!! My Stock Eliminator dream is reality
 

After years of reading, and more reading, researching, reaching out to veterans of the class, and trying not to overwhelm and burn them down with hot and cold vibes, the day has finally arrived that I'm a Stock Eliminator car owner.

I heeded as much valuable information as I could and decided to go with the ready built direction. It was the best option for me considering what I wanted to achieve before the Division 7 season was over.

As far as I know, this was once Duane Eiskant's car, and ironically, I called him on it back in January of 2020. It went to Larry Peterson that year and he sold it to a person in Michigan. It then went to David in Indiana and now to me here in California. I'd be grateful for any information of the Malibu's history.

Things really took off for me when I applied for and received my competition number in late July. After a good conversation with the office and learning which numbers were available, I wished for and was granted a number that holds some deep significance to me. It's a number some Southern Californians may be familiar with too. Bob Bales once ran with this number.

My number is 7350. This number was meant to be for me and was somehow, miraculously available. The number 73 is my birth year and the number 50 is my Mother's birth year. I turned 50 this year and my Mother would've been 73 this year. She passed away in December last year, just five weeks away from her 73rd birthday. We would've had quite the conversation(s) about how these numbers played out this year. LOVE YOU MOM!!

I'd like to thank David Garrity for making this Malibu available and his patience in completing the transaction. I'd also like to thank Mike Loge for coming through with shipping the Stocker. I'm not sure how my veteran support would like to be unveiled, and I'll do so accordingly with their approval. I'm certain they know who they are, can't thank you fellas enough. My vow to everyone here is that I'll do my very best to contribute to this incredible class and represent this class with diginity.

The first pic is the actual day of arrival, Sept. 5 and the second pic is of the Malibu loaded up to get a physical and check up prior to getting some track time. Can't wait to meet y'all in the lanes.

I can FINALLY remove Future D7 Contestant from my signature! :D

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sweet looking car

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Didn’t know that Duane owned it. Greg Turk raced it a long time then Larry Peterson raced it ,then David Garrity raced it at the Indy Fall Classic last year. Amazingly the BU is back in California ….

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Nice setup Justin! I encourage you to keep it simple.......scrub the enclosed trailers, stackers and toters. Nothing wrong with Pick'em up trucks, open trailers, hotel rooms and eating at the local scarf 'n barf!

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Welcome and congrats! The combo is great, and is other Malibu guys are working hard on saving the combo which was hit pretty good early this season, hope to see you do well and preserve the combo for the future!

Tim Stickles
1911

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Could that car have been owned by Paul Crowe out of Winchester, KY? He ran a very nice black '81 Malibu in the IHRA Crate Motor Stock class in the late 1990's and early 2000's. He was 1998 IHRA Stock World Champ. in it.

I didn't know "Lil" Duane Eiskant owned a Chevy, but it's possible. I remember him with a Ford Mustang and his dad Dwayne Sr., was in IHRA tech.

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Duane did not own the car he listed it for a friend, it was owned by Golliday and that’s who Duane listed for. It’s def a fast car…

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Congrats and good luck! Enjoy every second of it

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That's awesome Justin enjoy Stock and all the people you will meet racing your Malibu Good luck !



Jerry
Retired 3490 3492 STK SS SST

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Ok, so not the Crowe car from 1998+?:

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[QUOTE=Myron Piatek;685902]Ok, so not the Crowe car from 1998+?:[/QUOTE

Jeff Turk is as far back as I can recall….early 2000s

Tim Stickles

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Thank you to everyone for your encouragement and well wishes. I certainly didn't mean to make an erroneous statement that Duane owned the car. I knew I'd get the correct intel on the past of my Malibu. It blew me away when I saw Turk's time with the Malibu on AutoImagery. I remember the Canada plate :D

Thank you Tim, I will do my part to preserve the combo. Besides, I'm sure I'd be "tail" dragged by an individual out here with a wagon from Washington if I did'nt.

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It looks alot like Pauls car.. Pauls car went to virginia then I think to georgia not sure from there.. It had different wheels on it than in the pics.. And had a hand painted striping on the upper sides of the body..

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Rick Golliday in West Va owned. He and I are good friends so i posted it for him. Peterson bought it from him. Turk owned it orginally. Not sure how quick it is now Rick wanted to set the record with it but never got to Atco at the open before he sold it. It was quick.

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Dont believe this was Pauls car. Pretty sure Greg Turk was the builder. When Rick bought it he had all the records and extensive log book information. We never opened the rackpak to look at the information

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agreed!

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Def. not Pauls car.. but close!

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I think Pauls car is in North Carolina

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Enjoy Stock When is your 1st race

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The Bakersfield double is in October, I wanted to finish my new car in time to go but life got in the way. Hope to see you and all the others at the first division 7 race next year,

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The goal is to definitely make the double at Bakersfield in 3 weeks.

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Tony Wood bought this car from a kid in OKC who had gotten frustrated with it. Tony had Jim Lewis do a motor for it. Then sold it to Greg. It was fast when Tony had it.

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Congrats Justin and a very warm welcome, I remember what your feeling well, hope to shake your hand in Bakersfield!!!

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This is also Dell Britt’s old car, IHRA crate motor car

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take lots of photos and video. there is only one first race