[chadh5]

The diecast is part of a sales kit that stores can buy for the promotion. So that would be up to the individual stores on how many sales kit they purchase and what they do with the contents after the promotion. Best advice I can offer would be to find your local parts store that carries Raybestos and ask them if they are going to run the promotion.

 

[chadh5]

Oh yeah, and if you watch the video segments on http://www.raybestosgarage.com , that is me playing guitar on "Little GTO."

We're taking it to a road course next week to see how she does.

The online entry is now up and running.

 

[chadh5]

Where will the die cast be available from ?

After the promotion ends, they might have them on the Raybestos website. I see they are selling the '32 RPU tin tacker sign from last year on their website, which I didn't know they were doing. http://affinia.cespecialties.com/product.php?proid=128&catid=20

 

[steve_sutherland]

The sweeptstakes goes live on Wed, June 15. And Canadians are eligible this time!

You just made my day!!

 

[chadh5]

Hot Rod Magazine shot it last night for the next issue.

Hope you guys are entering to win it. I'd love for someone I know (or sorta know) WIN the GTO-R!

And Steve, there is talk of bringing it up to Montreal the 2nd week of September for a show. Not sure what the details are yet.

 

[spinshop]

Hot Rod Magazine shot it last night for the next issue.

Hope you guys are entering to win it. I'd love for someone I know (or sorta know) WIN the GTO-R!

And Steve, there is talk of bringing it up to Montreal the 2nd week of September for a show. Not sure what the details are yet.

I enter a couple times a week.

 

[chadh5]

FYI, the Hot Rod TV episode debuts on this Saturday.

 

[steve_sutherland]

Cool, I will definitely be watching, so when are you going to bring me my new GTO?

 

[1BLACKHARLEY]

Watched this a.m. Very neat car, looks to be a quality build, and spectacular results.....

 

[pist0lpete]

There is some really nice craftmanship that went into that car. Whoever wins it will be very lucky indeed.

 

[chadh5]

Thanks fellas. It was pretty neat to watch!

 

[chadh5]

Check out the ball that these big name NASCAR folks are having with the Raybestos GTO in the beautiful original road course in Watkins Glen NY this past weekend! My partner Kevin and Josh from Raybestos are about 100 miles from home as I type this, and are still getting 17 mpg there and back.

Video here! http://inr.synapticdigital.com/Affinia/Raybestos/


NASCAR Stars Drive 700HP Raybestos ‘64 GTO-R at Watkins Glen
As a fun kickoff to the Watkins Glen race weekend, a few select NASCAR team customers and media personalities were invited by the manufacturers of Raybestos® Brakes to test drive the company’s new 2011 promotional giveaway vehicle: a highly-customized 1964 Pontiac GTO built for road racing, powered by a 700 horsepower GM LSX 454 V8 engine, and equipped with Raybestos NASCAR-spec brakes. Drivers were given the keys to the “race-ready but street-legal” vintage muscle car, strapped into the harness, and invited to pilot the GTO-R around the original 6.6 mile street circuit of the early 1950s Watkins Glen Grand Prix races.
“This thing’s awesome. You can tell they lightened it up a lot. Horsepower is awesome, transmission is smooth, brakes are obviously Raybestos, so they stop right on a dime…Nice car, very well built,” said Tommy Baldwin, Owner and Crew Chief of the No. 36 Tommy Baldwin Racing Chevrolet Impala.
Raybestos customers, race fans, and muscle car enthusiasts can enter to win the Raybestos ’64 GTO-R through September 15th by visiting www.RaybestosGarage.com.
“When you have a lot of power, you have to be able to stop – and that’s not always on everybody’s mind when they build a car,” said Rutledge Wood, NASCAR RaceDay analyst on SPEED TV and host of History Channel’s Top Gear USA. “You all started with that, and went the other way – so it’s crazy to be able to get in there and push it, and have all that… It’s awesome. I’m going to be smiling for weeks. That was so insane… I’m so impressed by it!”
A comprehensive feature article on the Raybestos ’64 GTO-R appears in the upcoming October 2011 issue of Hot Rod Magazine, which is scheduled to hit newsstands in mid-August.
The lessons learned on tracks at places like Watkins Glen are continually translated into product improvements across the entire Raybestos product line, which include racing, street performance, police patrol/pursuit vehicles and heavy-duty trucks.
Raybestos® brand brake parts are produced by affiliated companies in Affinia’s Global Brake & Chassis Group, the leading manufacturer of braking systems in the transportation industry. The Raybestos brakes product line includes everything from brake drums to rotors, pads, shoes, calipers and hydraulic parts. Raybestos brand racing brakes are used by premier teams such as Joe Gibbs Racing, Roush Fenway Racing, Richard Petty Motorsports, Earnhardt Ganassi, and Tommy Baldwin Racing in NASCAR® competition. In addition, the Raybestos brand is the preferred racing brake pad of IZOD® IndyCar® Series and Firestone® Indy Lights road and street course competition. For more information about Raybestos brakes, visit Raybestos.com.

 

[chadh5]

That guy from Top Gear was pretty cool.

It's also on the cover of Hot Rod Magazine this month. About a month left to enter to win it. I'm taking it to a small local show on Saturday.

 

[chadh5]

Drove the car up to a show in Milwaukee over the weekend. Got the question: Was this built by Troy Trepanier? ...which of course I thought was a pretty rad compliment. I love what Troy does and he's always super nice.

Only 16 more days to enter.

 

[chadh5]

I hear the GTO is getting lots of attention up in Montreal. I will also deny any reports of it terrorizing the streets of Toronto.

Tomorrow is the last day to enter if anyone is so inclined.

and here is the Hot Rod spread, now online.

http://www.hotrod.com/featuredvehicles/hrdp_1110_raybestos_1964_pontiac_gto/

 

[Blitz]

Any more info on obtaining the diecast version? I want one!!

 

[davewho1]

Where's my notification that I won it?!

 

[Tom Mobley]

to bad, it got crossed up with mine

 

[RacnJsn95]

Man, wish I would have seen this sooner... It's too late to enter

 

[steve_sutherland]

Damn I didn't win, but i heard that the winner lives pretty close to me, Flesherton Ontario Canada, :thumbsup: Really hope to see this car make an appearance at some local shows/ track days next summer!