Visconti-Barton Joins
Rescue Ink’s Fight against Animal Abuse
Visconti-Barton Motorsports, the Legends
car team of John Visconti and Thomas Barton, announced that
they'll team up with Rescue Ink -a group of tattooed tough guys
dedicated to taking on animal abusers - to wage war against
animal cruelty and neglect.
Visconti-Barton Motorsports aims to help
raise funds for a new Rescue Ink animal shelter, with 100% of
the proceeds going toward the good cause.
The New York-based Rescue Ink describes themselves as a “bunch
of tattooed, motorcycle-riding tough guys who fight animal
cruelty by educating abusers and helping resolve situations
other groups can’t – or won’t – handle.” The group’s activities
are highlighted every Friday night at 10 PM on the National
Geographic Channel’s “Rescue Ink Unleashed.” For more
information on Rescue Ink’s quest to save animals from abuse and
how you can donate to their cause, visit
www.rescueink.org .
Rescue Ink joins Visconti-Barton’s
marketing partners, which consists of: Graphic Gorilla (www.graphicgorilla.com);
VAV Classics Auto Body of Southampton, N.Y.; 7-Eleven of
Franklin Ave., Valley Stream, N.Y.; Pro Fox Racing (www.profoxracing.com);
Tony’s Automotive Center of Lynbrook, N.Y.; LDI Marketing
Consultants of New York, N.Y.; Helix In-Car Camera (www.helixus.com);
MRZ Trucking Incorporated of Springfield Gardens, N.Y.; and Five
Corners Service Center of Lynbrook, N.Y.
This upcoming season Visconti and Barton
kick off their “The VBM 25th Anniversary Tour,” which will span
tracks across the Eastern seaboard. The duo’s racing
relationship began as crewmembers on the late model of
Visconti’s father, the famous, Cookie Visconti, at the now
defunct Freeport (N.Y.) Speedway during the early 1980s. Later
they would join forces racing go-karts competitively until they
moved up to where they are now, Legends cars, which are
purpose-built race cars that use 5/8-scale replica bodies of
cars from the 1930s and ’40s.
For 2010, the Visconti-Barton Motorsports
entry switches numbers (from No. 74 to No. 1) and colors while
they hope to take the No. 1 Rescue Ink entry to victory lane and
help abused and neglected animals along the way.
For more information on Visconti-Barton Motorsports, visit
www.viscontibartonmotorsports.com .
Source:
Visconti-Barton Motorsports PR
Posted: December
15, 2009
