- Harvey’s racing career began as a crew member on Jim Haslam’s cars which were driven in 1961 and 1962 by Billy Foster.
- In 1964, he teamed up with Fred Isacson as his driver and they ran a 1953 Ford in Western’s “Jalopy” class with Fred guiding the car to a 5th place finish in the year end points standings. Again with Fred for the following season, Harvey built a ’49 Ford and they finished 4th in points.
- In 1967, he built a 1955 Chev Stock Car, and together with driver Roy Haslam, won the Western Speedway championship that year.
- The following year, he sold the Stock Car’s winning 6 cylinder Chev engine to Gary Kershaw (who won the 1968 championship with it), and moved up a class to Super Stocks, again teaming up with Roy Haslam, where they won the “July Cup” and finished 3rd in season points.
- In 1969, Gary Kershaw joined Harvey and they combined to win the Sup-er Stock track championship.
- Harvey built a car to challenge the NASCAR tracks throughout the Northwest. Gary and Harvey did very well wherever they ran. He was also the Crew Chief for their first visit to the “Permatex 200” race in Riverside, California.
- 1971 saw Harvey again take on the Crew Chief role at the Permatex race where this time, Gary was 1st to take the checkered flag, the first Canadian driver to do so.
- Harvey built two cars in 1972. Gary drove one to many wins locally, while the other was built for Hershel McGriff out of Portland, Oregon. In it’s first outing at Portland, the “Olympia Express” won very handily.
- He built a new car for Gary to drive in 1973 and again in 1974. In the second year, this team had a banner year, winning virtually everything. They won the “Sponsor’s Trophy”, the “Billy Foster Stock Car 100”, the “July Cup”, “Corby Cup” (most main events, a record of 21) and, of course, the season championship.
- Harvey was awarded the Mechanic of the Year Award at Western Speedway in 1975.
- George Stewart drove Harvey’s car in 1977 and won 7 out of 11 races entered.
- He joined forces with Roy Smith in 1978, where they won the “Canada 200” race and had the Winston West Championship car (also in 1980).
- 1981 saw Harvey receive the NASCAR “Mechanic of the Year” award, a first for a Canadian.
