Factory Five Customer Ray M. Sends Us His Latest Project

Posted on January 31, 2014 by Dave Lindsey in What's New

Factory Five customer Ray McEdward has been a good friend for many years. He has raised a ton of money for our favorite charity, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and he received the Factory Five Legacy Award in 2011. Ray and his wife Jodi built a Mk2 Roadster which was featured in a photo shoot by Linda Berman Photography in 2012.

MasterPieces Puzzle Company has licensed one of the photos of Ray’s Roadster, and used it their new 2014 “Wheels” collection. The puzzle is 750-pieces, and Ray thinks they are calling it “Jewel of the Garage.”

Linda Berman is a talented photographer, and has taken photos of Ray’s car and done some cool digital editing work. We did a post about a year ago and the link is below with more of Linda’s picture.

It’s really cool when you build your own car. It’s even more cool when you get the car that you built to star in a product like this 750-piece jigsaw puzzle!

Factory Five’s newest shop dog Tucker helps me show off Ray’s puzzle.

Here’s another one of Linda’s photographs. Click here to for more from Linda Berman Photography.

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