Posted on November 26, 2014 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
After a long wait, the Factory Five-Sherwin Williams line of car paints officially have names. Here's the list of names along with the winner's name. All selected winning names have received a $50 Factory Five Parts Catalog Gift Certificate. Here's the official Factory Five line of Sherwin Williams paint colors.…Read More
Posted on November 26, 2014 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
It has been a great year, and we want to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving! The crew will be break early today and shut down at 3 PM EST for the long 4-day weekend. We are closed on Friday, and will be open for tours on Saturday from 9 AM…Read More
Posted on November 24, 2014 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
At this year's SEMA Show, Titanium Media's Greg Hoy shot a couple of videos with Factory Five President Dave Smith. In this first video, Dave talks with Wayne Geoffrey at Ford Racing Performance Parts at SEMA 2014 about the FFR '33 Hot Rod they built to showcase their new EcoBoost…Read More
Posted on November 20, 2014 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
"If you don’t know if you have the skills to build a Factory Five, you don’t have to worry about it,” says Dave Smith of Factory Five. “Just go to a three-day build school." At the 2014 SEMA Show earlier this month, the crew from Power Automedia visited the Factory…Read More
Posted on November 14, 2014 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
Factory Five President Dave Smith talks with customer Erik Treves about his 289 USRRC Replica. At this year's SEMA Show, Factory Five customer Erik Treves debuted his recently completed 289 USRRC Replica. Erik picked up his 289 kit this past June at our Summer Open House and kept a build…Read More
Posted on November 11, 2014 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
I just watched the movie "America" by filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza. It shouldn't take a movie to help us realize the great contribution to freedom that this country and its Armed Forces have made. On behalf of the team here at Factory Five Racing, I would like to send a message of thanks to…Read More
Posted on November 5, 2014 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
The 2014 SEMA Show was one of the most attended SEMA Shows Factory Five has ever been too. Here's a gallery of videos and photos from the four day event. Photos from Day 4 From left to right: Factory Five customer Erik Treves whose 289 USRRC Replica is on display…Read More
Posted on November 4, 2014 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
The 2014 SEMA Show is officially underway this morning in Las Vegas. The Factory Five booth is already attracting a ton of spectators and the Factory Fives in Featured Vehicle spots look great! Here's some photos from this morning before the show started. The Factory Five GTM is featured in…Read More
Posted on November 3, 2014 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
With the bulk of our team in Las Vegas this week for the 2014 SEMA Show, we have a small, but heroic band of admin staff here to help you with orders, tech support, or shipping questions. It will be a busy week, but Dave, Jay, Eddie, Nate, and Sally…Read More
Posted on October 30, 2014 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
We've got an epic show planned this year for SEMA! At last count, there were 14 Factory Five cars scheduled for SEMA in various parts of the show and with a variety of companies. We've been hard at work for the last few months getting these cars ready, and will…Read More
Posted on October 30, 2014 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
Steve Temple who publishes the online kit car magazine "Car Builder" features three Factory Fives in his current issue. Subscriptions to the online magazines are free, and Steve is an expert in the industry. I met Steve back in 1995 when he was editor of "Peterson's Kit Car Magazine". As I…Read More
Posted on October 29, 2014 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
Our good friend Freddy at SMG Motoring Inc. had the chance to dyno tune the Factory Five Mk4 that was built by the All Women Team on PowerNation's "Detroit Muscle" TV show. The cool thing is that the stroked 351W displacing 427 ci. laid down a cool 427 RWHP and…Read More
Posted on October 28, 2014 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
The December issue of Grassroots Motorsports features build part #9 of the magazine's excellent 818S build series coverage. In this article, the white gel-coat car gets a very nice wrap with GRM graphics and finishing details. The crew from Grassroots Motorsports, up to this point, has kept the car base Subaru WRX…Read More
Posted on October 27, 2014 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
These two newly built Factory Fives are heading to the 2014 SEMA Show. The LS7-powered GTM is painted with new Sherwin Williams-Factory Five paints (Grey metallic with satin clear) and new wheels from Forgiato. The 818R sports a race-built 412 HP Subaru STi block (engine is still at the engine builders!). Click here…Read More
Posted on October 24, 2014 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
Here's a few snap shots of the Factory Five LS7-powered GTM heading to the 2014 SEMA Show. The paint is Sherwin Williams. Full details from the SEMA Show. The 818R is also heading to SEMA. The paint matches the GTM, but rather than satin clear, it has a gloss clear.Read More
Posted on October 24, 2014 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
Our ace tech support guy Dan attended the Joint Base Cape Cod Military Car Show about a month ago, and attended the awards banquet last night. On behalf of Factory Five Racing, Dan accepted some nice awards from the Cape Cod Military Support Foundation. We were proud to support the…Read More
Posted on October 7, 2014 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
Check out John George at speed for a few minutes before the engine grenades. This short five minute video is exciting and heart-breaking at the same time. The car is SO FAST, and it was tough for the team to fail to record a great time and a win with the…Read More
Posted on October 6, 2014 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
Factory Five customer George R. sent us pictures from this past weekend's O'Kenny's Falltastic Car Show in Valatie, NY where four FFR "33 Hot Rods and two Roadsters were display. The weather was perfect for an early fall car show and two Factory Fives were awarded "Favorite Pick" trophies -…Read More
Posted on October 3, 2014 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
Factory Five customer Ed Konda and his GTM Supercar are featured in an article for Canadian car website AutoGo.ca. Journalist Nauman Farooq visited Ed at his Ontario Kit Car Consultants office to check out his GTM and take it out for a quick test drive. Nauman wrote, "The GTM is a visual…Read More
Posted on October 2, 2014 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
That's right. A rescue car. Peter found this car unfinished in California and bought the car, shipped it out to Massachusetts, and used his considerable skills as the owner of a body shop to complete the car. We spotted this on the customer website www.thefactoryfiveforum.com. Here's what he wrote and…Read More
