Factory Five Customer Thomas L. Gets Thanks for Service

Posted on July 14, 2014 by in What's New

I was lucky to give a brief tour of the company to Thomas Learned and his family who were up from Texas.  Thomas is a 21-year United States Army Veteran, retired Apache helicopter mechanic.  Thomas served three combat tours.  He is interested in building a Hot Rod, but since my flame ’33 was at the back of the showroom, we decided to take a quick spin in the Mk4 Roadster.

After the test drive, we did a quick tour of the plant and were able to say a collective “Thank you” for a career dedicated to keeping all of us Americans safe.

Dave Smith
President

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Thomas and family in the Factory Five showroom.

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It’s fun to take people on test drives where we can do some basic car handling demos like understeer, oversteer, and some nice tasty donuts…

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I swear I’m ALMOST able to lift my front wheels when the Toyo R888’s are nice and hot.

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Please don’t forward this photo to Stan at Toyo Tires. 🙂

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After the test drive, we did a quick tour of the plant.

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