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
Posted on June 4, 2012 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
We've posted PDF versions of our latest brochures on our website and you can view them for free. We're still happy to send your hard copies. Here's a sample brochure and you can view each one under that kits web site section in the left hand column navigation bar. Factory…Read More
Posted on May 29, 2012 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
Factory Five customer and Challenge Series Racer John "GoPro Pro" George sends us some rock star in-car footage of last weekend's race at New Jersey Motorsports Park. Check out the start where John rips past some Porsches and Vettes en route to a very fast finish. The 2012 Spec Challenge…Read More
The London C-car Show has been an annual event since 2002 with replica enthusiasts gathering in London, Ohio for the world's largest rolling car show of vintage GT40 and C-car replicas. Originally the event began as a small get together to benefit kids with Cystic Fibrosis, and today, the event…Read More
This year, we're attending the June 15-17 GoodGuys show in West Springfield, MA and customers are invited to join us at this fun three day event. We're bringing a good selection of Hot Rods and a few other Factory Fives with our big Factory Five show & event truck. There…Read More
Posted on May 23, 2012 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
Today I received an e-mail from Mike and Kim Stockwell, the parents of Capt. Brandon Stockwell, who gave us an update on how he's doing after his fourth deployment to Afghanistan and Iraq. Mike included some photos of Brandon with his Factory Five Roadster and the attack helicopter he flies.…Read More
Posted on May 22, 2012 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
If you know Factory Five, you know we don't have any salesmen. Rather, our customers are our salesmen. Recently, our truck driver Scott "Honey Badger" Bell told us every time he goes out on the road, he's constantly swarmed with people asking about the cars. We gave him a few…Read More
Posted on May 21, 2012 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
This year's Carlisle Imports & Replicas Show featured perfect weather and lots of great people. The full FFR line-up was on hand including customer Tim D.'s 347-powered Mk4 Roadster and customer Tim P.'s Type 65 Coupe. This is one of the few Coupes with a dual overhead cam 4.6L drivetrain.…Read More
