Although Gregg Mixon had some previous owning experience, his official debut as a Busch Series owner was at Nashville.
68 laps into the event, Harmon crashed leaving the team's debut with a 40th-place finish.
The team returned at Nazareth bettering Nashville with a 37th place start and a 38th-place finish, falling out with transmission troubles.
The most memorable part of the season for the team occurred during a Thursday practice at Bristol.
The guardrail, not properly closed, split Harmon's car in half.
The team gained sponsorship from FanZ Car for the second half of the season and that support immediately showed.
Then a streak began in which Harmon finished in the top-28 for 5 races, stretching from July to August.
Harmon made all but two races, and finished 23rd in points, the highest position for Mixon and crew.
Shane Hmiel, who was coming off a drug suspension, was driving in the Craftsman Truck Series for Billy Ballew Motorsports.
FanZ Car had left after 2003, and Quality Plus Services signed on to be the primary sponsor for the rest of the year.
Despite starting 43rd, Aaron, a relatively inexperienced rookie, completed 92 laps and was running well, before overheating took him to a 36th-place finish.
With all other recent champions not running the series or in other good rides, GIC-Mixon was practically guaranteed of making the rest of the races.
Grissom used the past champion's provisional (43rd place start) and finished in 20th at Kentucky.
[3] With Steve Grissom leaving to Jay Robinson Racing, the seat was open.
Faced with a tough schedule, Mixon contacted Joe Nemechek about buying the No.
The next week at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Crosby had transmission problems, finishing 35th.
With the guarantee of being in the field gone, Crosby was released and Mark Green was asked to drive the car.
Greg Sacks did not qualify for Talladega and at Phoenix, Scott Gaylord raced the No.
[5] With new sponsor, Big Boar, back on the cars Fuller qualified for the majority of the races he tried.
At Lowe's Motor Speedway in October, he started inside of Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jeff also had some good finishes.
With some issues beginning to show in the money department, Gregg Mixon made the tough decision.
During 2002, Gregg Mixon began at looking to start a Winston Cup Series team with Harmon driving.
With the Busch program struggling to stay afloat, Mixon scaled the Cup operation down.
They would refrain from attempting any Cup races until sponsorship problems were cleared up, In 2004, Mixon was ready to try again.
In 2005, the team used Bodine to get into the Budweiser Shootout, an all-star race for pole winners.
With the Busch team falling apart, by 2006, it appears the Shootout would be the only time the car would be on the track.