Factory Five Australia News

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Dave Lindsey in What's New

Chris Canning from Component Cars Australia Visits FFR

Factory Five President Dave Smith and exclusive Australian Distributor Chris Canning

Chris Canning from Component Cars Australia, our new exclusive distributor in Australia, visited the facility to check on his shipment of four Factory Fives heading down under. We took the chance to visit and review our plan for delivering cars to Factory Five guys in Australia.

Chris and the engineering staff went through some chassis ideas for right hand drive as well as items that affect Australia customers.

Chris surprised me with a custom made Western Australia surf board! Good karma from a great guy.

Thanks Chris for the great visit and we look forward to big news from down under with Factory Fives.

Dave Smith
President

Chris visited with Director of Engineering Jesper Ingerslev, Director of R&D Jim Schenck,
and Tech Sales Manager Jason Lavigne.

What a great guy! Thanks Chris for the custom Oz surf board.

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