As the Canadians took over, I was caught up in several assumptions, one was Bob genuinely had an interest in the motorsports industry, he had spent 100’s of thousands of dollars racing over the years. The second was the idea …
Motorsports Fabrication had matured its reputation as a turnkey car builder, spring of 1990 was very busy with a number of turnkey projects,1990 included facilitating over 12 touring series races, with a full late model stock championship run with GC. …
I was in LA LA land (Mooresville, NC) vested in a new business, a business model my dad and I had critiqued from the Sonny Hawkins days. As I matured the Motorsports Fabrication business, dad studied the product the motorsports …
In 1981 my dad and Farm Bureau insurance had a brouhaha about workers comp, we owned a number of farm related business, and our Cal’s Body Shop business fleet, facilities, and liabilities all were insured with the Farm Bureau and …
Building a Race Car is a 13-part series by Mark Davis that takes the reader from constructing a complete race car from 150 feet of roll bar tubing to a finished NASCAR Winston Cup stock car. The articles were featured …
As the coincidence of racing Jon Thorne adds to the story the irony of Art Reno breaking down in our front yard really adds to the direction of the next chapter. Art was an airline pilot drawn to racing for …
Bobby Allison took GM’s bait, caught a big fish, then put the bait on sale for racers everywhere, Bunkie Knudsen’s plan changed racing for the Saturday racers for the next 60 years. The first racing Chevelle I remember was Speedy …
There are 2 things that I know hate being shocked one is me the other is pigs. There are multiples of relative lessons in the mechanics of life that carry over, one is the mystery of the negative ground. Shortly …
The secret of success in any area of expertise is never stop learning. It takes a combination of knowledge, experience, confidence, natural ability, focus, patience, and “want to”. In the early 1900s training models fell into 2 categories, need-to-know, and …
The 1977 season was crazy, we jumped in, with the best racing knowledge we had, stumbled across an equalizer, rotating weight is king. The fall and winter changed our approach to everything. We embraced an engineer’s direction more than ever, …