An Award Winning Weekend

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Dave Lindsey in What's New

Three big wins this past weekend for FFR and Customers. Factory Five customer Eric Hansen won 1st place at the Del Mar Goodguys show autocross competition on Saturday. At the same time on the other side of the country, FFR customers Tim Dolan and John Takvorian earned Best in Show wins with their Facctory Five Roadsters at the Boston World of Wheels Show. We were also delighted to receive a “Top 10” award from the crew at Vintage Air for our efforts.

The Factory Five community is huge and yet I am constantly amazed at the sheer number of car show wins, race wins, news items, and interesting car guy details that happen every day here. Congratulations to everyone!

Dave Smith
President

Tim's beautiful Factory Five Roadster earned "Best in Class" at the 2012 World of Wheels show in Boston.

John T.'s Mk4 Roadster in the Factory Five booth at the 2012 World of Wheels Boston Show.

Congrats to Tim and John!

Eric Hansens race rod spanked em but good at the 2012 Del Mar Goodguys autocross.

Vinatge Air Award goes on "the wall" in our showroom.

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