Posted on June 26, 2012 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
Hold on to your hat folks! New Zealand native Robin MacDonald has built a monster '33 Hot Rod. Robin's roots in hot rodding run deep, and when he met with our guys at SEMA a few years ago, our new '33 was exactly what he was looking for... "A hot…Read More
Posted on June 26, 2012 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
Factory Five customer Ed Konda from Ontario, Canada has built three GTMs in the past three years and each one seems to set the bar a bit higher. Ed's most recent Gen 2 GTM is a real traffic stopper. This GTM was built as a driver for his customer Mary…Read More
Posted on June 25, 2012 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
Jim Youngs at Kit Car Builder magazine has done a great job on the August issue. Jim is a veteran of the kit car industry and spends this month's issue with great coverage of the Factory Five Huntington Beach Cruise-In and the AHA Kit Car Show. In the same issue,…Read More
Posted on June 21, 2012 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
Factory Five Challenge Series Racer John George has posted about last weekend's race at Road Atlanta. 10 Challenge Series racers which made for some close racing throughout the entire pack. There was also another Challenge Car which ran in the HPDE group along with a Type 65 Coupe. Several customers…Read More
Posted on June 21, 2012 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
I first met Erick Parga and his father Art at the 2011 Open House. This past weekend, the guys stopped by the Factory Five booth at the GoodGuys East Coast Nationals. A year ago, I gave young Erick advice to pay attention in school and focus on his grades. Today,…Read More
Posted on June 21, 2012 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
Ridetech President Bret Vodlkel has been driving the wheels off their Factory Five '33 Hot Rod. The guys have taken the car on the Hot Rod Power Tour and are now working the car on road race courses and autocrosses. The car has qualified for the 2012 Optima Challenge, and…Read More
Posted on June 20, 2012 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
The LA Roadster Show at the Pomona Fairgrounds was a big success this weekend for Factory Five as our booth say a ton of traffic. The booth was manned by Factory Five customer Erik Hansen who reports that there were many interested show attendees stopping by and commenting on how…Read More
Posted on June 20, 2012 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
Hammink Performance, the official European Distributor for Factory Five, recently sent us this video of them testing out their almost complete Factory Five Challenge Car at the Circuit Zandvoort in the Netherlands. They used this session for testing and tuning and are about to send the car off to be…Read More
Posted on June 19, 2012 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
The greater New Bedford Chamber of Commerce has selected Factory Five Racing to receive its 2012 Small Business of the Year Award. "Factory Five is a wonderful company and a great success story," said chamber President Roy Nascimento about the award presented during a breakfast program Thursday. "It's a small…Read More
Posted on June 19, 2012 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
Automobile's Ezra Dyer did a fun video for Yahoo Autos a while back on the new McLaren supercar and compared briefly to a Factory Five GTM. A tremendous amount of reader interest regarding the GTM lead him to write this cool blog for The New York Times Auto section. Click…Read More
Posted on June 14, 2012 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
Factory Five customer Sam Martin e-mailed us this story of his Mk4 Roadster being selected as Cruisenightcars.com's Featured Car! Sam picked up his Roadster in August 2010 and brought it out to the car show circuit this April. Hes using a Jasper 351 performance engine and transmission package, front and…Read More
Posted on June 13, 2012 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
The Summit Racing-Factory Five Mk4 project is going strong and the boys from SKJ customs are doing a great job putting the car together, starting with this 400+ hp 351W/427 ford Racing stroker engine. Check out onallcyllinders.com for a current update. The car will be unveiled at the 2012 GoodGuys…Read More
Posted on June 13, 2012 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
We get a lot of nice letters from customers here at Factory Five and the other day, we received a GREAT one! U.S. Navy Captain Ryan Tillotson visited Factory Five recently and noticed that our military display included a cap from USS CARNEY. Captain Tillotson let us know that he…Read More
Posted on June 12, 2012 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
The Factory Five 2012 Open House was by far the best Open House to date. The best weather, the most number of cars, and the most attendees. The day dawned clear skies, perfect 75 degrees and mostly sunny all day long. Factory Fives began rolling in around 8 AM and…Read More
Posted on June 9, 2012 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
May 2012 Testing and Specifications Adam Costa at Lone Wolf Productions put together this brief video showing some track testing of the 818 chassis and 818R body shape.Read More
Join us for a very special Open House event! This year marks the 15th anniversary of the Factory Five Racing Summer Open House! This year's Open House will be held on Saturday, June 9th from 9 am to 1 pm at our headquarters in Wareham, MA. The format will be…Read More
Posted on June 6, 2012 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
Providence Business News reports that Factory Five Racing was one of eleven local south eastern New England businesses that have been nominated by the New Bedford Chamber of Commerce and Bank Five for the 2012 Small Business of the Year Award. "We are very honored to be nominated and behalf…Read More
Posted on June 6, 2012 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
Modified Mustangs & Fords Magazine recently released details on a new car we are building with the crew from Summit Racing. The car will be unveiled at the 2012 GoodGuys Nationals in Columbus, Ohio on July 6-8. The car has a long list of special parts and custom paint (Summit…Read More
Factory Five Racing customer and '33 Machine owner Erik Hansen will be staffing the Factory Five booth at the 2012 LA Roadster Show at the Fairplex in Pomona, CA this coming Father's Day weekend - June 16 and 17. Erik will be bringing his an award winning and race winning…Read More
Posted on June 5, 2012 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
[caption id="attachment_3870" align="alignnone" width="626" caption="Factory Five GTM hits the main page of Yahoo Autos! (With a little help from a car called the McLaren MP4-12C!)"][/caption] A few weeks ago, we hosted Automobile Magazine's Ezra Dyer here at Factory Five Racing. Ezra had brought one of the very first McLaren's down…Read More
