Originally Posted by
S Lathrop
In the 50 years I have been involved with FV, FF, and the classes that followed, I have turned out a bit over 250 cars, I have assembled very few complete cars. Most of the cars I have assembled were the very first cars of each design. After that is was parts for other guys to build cars. I almost never had a prep shop as a customer. My business model was much more like the FV model than what was typical of other formula car classes. The majority of my customers just could not afford to buy a new car, ready to race. Instead they might buy a used car and over time upgrade that package to something was top of the line.