Factory Five Earns RCN Drivers’ Choice Award!

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Dave Lindsey in What's New

Factory Five Racing has been awarded the 2020 Driver’s Choice Award from Rare Car Network in the D.I.Y. Build Packages category! The category featured a dozen different companies offering everything from exos to classic replicas.

Brad Bisnette from Rare Car Network with Dave Smith. Factory Five was awarded the “Driver’s Choice” award from Rare Car Network in 2019 as voted on by their readers!

This was the second year that RCN presented these awards in 20 different categories to recognize the top products and services in the world of replicas, unique classics and homebuilt cars.. The team at Factory Five was presented the award for D.I.I Packages in 2019.

Click here to read the official post on RCN’s website.

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