Installing a Prefab Body
Parts 1 & 2 from Circle Track Magazine, April & May, 2003 Part 1 – April 2003 Part 2 – May 2003
Performance Vehicle
A performance vehicle represents a category above and beyond normal production vehicles, prototypes in development, more powerful drivetrain, superior speed, agility, overall driving experience. Performance Vehicle knowledge base is a diverse, multilevel engineering with an emphasis on skills that allow individuals to design, develop, fabricate, assemble, drive, race and implement innovative mobility solutions. Makers IP will chase an information trial powered by imagination, design methodology, and craftsman related skillsets used in the professional automotive industry.
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We Need People with Specific Skills
In the summer of 1996, Motorsports Workforce Development became a real thing. Catawba Valley Community College Foundation had been approached by the NC Workforce Development crowd to mature the motorsports industry and develop a skills specific workforce. The vision would …
Pitter Patter, Let’s Get At’er
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 …
The Circle Track Build
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. …
Motorsports Training Center
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 …
’86 Monte Carlo Smokin SS
The ’86 Monte Carlo Smokin SS build was featured in Chevy Rumble Magazine in 2008. Articles are in PDF format. Click the title to view Introducing: Smokin’ SS Part 1 With a NASCAR Guru as Their Instructor, Two Students Build …
Chapter 5: Next Step Racing La La Land
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
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 …
Chapter 4: Racing With Art Reno and The Next Step
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 …
From a Racers Point of View
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 …