Moving To a New Raceshop

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My two brothers and I have a 6k sqft shop in Doylestown PA. We've been in our shop for 3 years now and found a better option. Double the size, lower price and under 10min away from work and home! We officially move in today!! Now we just have to move all our old stuff out!

We really have the shop to service the two racecars, and work on our personal vehicles. We sell Adam's Detail Products, but that's really a hobby and surely don't pay the bills.

Due to our dayjob becoming so busy, we haven't raced competitively since 2007. We won a championship in '06 and were runner-up in '07 in the NSCA Super Street class. We currently have two ProMod Corvettes now. They are both powered by twin turbo Allen Johnson TFX motors. The cars run 1/8mile in under 4 seconds.

Pics of the old shop. Will keep this updated as we move in the new shop.

Washin the Viper:

Adam's stock:

My brother Evan's '65 deVille:

From the back:

Good buddy learning to use the Flex:

Old paint on one of the ProMods:

Our shop away from home:

Late night in Darlington

Hangin the front wheels for the first 300':

Most recent paint scheme. We run a pharmaceutical company for our day job, which explains the theme:

Outside the front of our shop:

Biggest American Flag I could find without custom ordering:

One of our ferocious guard dogs!

 

[PeteMoore]

awesome!!!!

I could only dream of that kind of setup over here for our wee cars.

 

[Mickey O]

Question is, will you be satisfied with the new shop?


Cool cars, cute pup (how old?), by reading this you have agreed to give me several items of my choosing from your shop.

 

[PeteMoore]

More pics of the pup please

 

[Falcon67]

Somebody's havin' way too much fun. Nice, can't wait to see the new digs. The caddy is pimpin' big.

 

[JimL]

Good looking Rott! Love mine!

 

[NUTTSGT]

Old shop and you're getting a bigger one ? dayum. . . . keep posting pics.

 

[e30bradley]

nice shop. More pictures!

 

[wayne10]

Nice--- more pictures. More pictures. well you get the point.
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[Motown 454]

Sweet set up. I see some awesome rides in there.

 

[cgall]

Is that really paint on your race car or a vinyl wrap? It looks awesome, either way.

 

[Dragster Racer]

Sweet. Ummm. Can I ask what the day job is? It aint cheap to put together, let alone race a pro mod!

 

[j.owen]

Hmm, I feel bad that I live down in the Newtown area and didn't know you guys existed up there. Awesome cars and I look forward to seeing what the new shop holds for you.

 

[MaleMan]

Im saying what every one else is saying Awesome shop.
Plus love the vipers.

 

[MaleMan]

Im saying what every one else is saying Awesome shop.
Plus love the vipers.

Sorry Viper...... and is that a GT40 in the back round.

 

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Question is, will you be satisfied with the new shop?


Cool cars, cute pup (how old?), by reading this you have agreed to give me several items of my choosing from your shop.

We want to build our own shop, but just too busy right now. We own 140 acres in Horsham and 10 acres in Chalfont, but don't have the time nor patience right now.

Puppy is 3 years old now. She is our third rottie. She is a good dog. Our male passed away last May at age 9. He was 155lb, solid muscle German machine.

We replaced him with another male this Jan. I'll get pics up of him soon.

 

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Old shop and you're getting a bigger one ? dayum. . . . keep posting pics.

The old shop is 40min from work and home. New shop is over twice the size, just a little more money, but 10min away. Work is so busy, we just don't have time to commute 1.5hrs a day.

 

[[email protected]]

Is that really paint on your race car or a vinyl wrap? It looks awesome, either way.

Racecar is 100% paint. A place in MD called The Shop painted it.

 

[[email protected]]

Sweet. Ummm. Can I ask what the day job is? It aint cheap to put together, let alone race a pro mod!

We run a pharmaceutical company, hence the paintjob! Racecar is just our hobby, wish we could make money racing! We don't advertise the pharma company and keep it seperate from the racing, but figured we'd do a theme paint to get back into the old ProMod look. Most people will write their racing off on their business. We'd rather not deal with it.

 

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Hmm, I feel bad that I live down in the Newtown area and didn't know you guys existed up there. Awesome cars and I look forward to seeing what the new shop holds for you.

We expect to be moved in around Sep. Stop by when we're in. We only go up nights and weekends.

 

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Sorry Viper...... and is that a GT40 in the back round.

I love my Viper. I bought it new in '08 and drive it as much as I can.

The Ford GT is a friend's. It's an '05 and he went to Penn State and is a huge PS fan. Hence, the colors! I think he has over 10 Ferraris and every time I see him, he has a new car.

We constantly have friends cars in the shop.

The old 10.5 car, we won the championship with:

Old school turbo setup:

Our old boy, cruisin in the Caddy:

My salty truck:

It's an '06 Dmax, twin turbo, built trans, etc.:

Old dog would ride anything. He would run alongside the quad at 22mph and look at ya!:

My gator a few years ago. She's a bit fatter now:

 

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New shop, clean slate!

We're renting a shot blaster on Mon to clean up the floors. We plan to coat the floors ourselves and would love recommendations and any vendor input. It's 14k sqft, so not real big, but we need to find epoxy in volume.

 

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We recently restored my father's childhood bike, a '59 Schwinn Panther II:

 

[70 supersport]

Wow,you guys have some way cool stuff living my dream race cars cool shop and to top it off Adams your the bomb!

 

[cobra7]

Scotty Cannon used to run a Pro Mod with the MAd Scientist theme or maybe it was his Funny Car. Been awhile since I have seen him around. Those Pro Mods were nasty on the Greer Dragway in SC.

 

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Scotty and Scott are awesome! Scotty used to run the Mad Tator and Cannonball Racing. He had the mad scientist theme on the Fuel cars with Oakley.

We started racing out of Scotty's shop in SC. His old crew chief, Darryll Makins, was our crew chief in '06 and '07. We were back and forth every week from our home garage in Horsham and Scotty's shop, before we had the current shop.

Our ProMods are built by AP Racecars. Allen Pittman is Scotty's best friend and Scott's Paw-In-Law. Allen is the guy cutting in the night picture.

In other words, we know Scotty really well!

ProMods were getting a little too boring and we figured they need to get back to their roots, like the Mad Tator!

 

[RoarkIndustrialSolutions]

For your floors, get with Scotty at Legacy Industrial. He'll be a great resource for you. He's a member here.

[email protected]
(908) 269-8300

I also helped set up a race shop in NoVA and had a colleague of mine polish and stain their floors. The epoxy was beat up from the previous owner, so they wanted it polished and stained. I provided their bench set up and paddock canopies. Contact me anytime with questions. Congrats on your new space!

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Looks good, I'll contact him!

 

[[email protected]]

I went on your site, briefly. A lot of nice stuff! Good chance you'll be hearing from us soon!

 

[racinfarmer]

The green flames on the hauler have to go.

 

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Sorry for the delay in updates, but been super busy. We've made some progress in the last two months. Floors were ground down and sealed, thanks to George's Tool Rental (GTR) and Legacy Industrial:

We painted all of the walls white and added a stripe. Had to get the flag up ASAP:

Primer Coat on floor:

Epoxy from Legacy Industrial. They were great to deal with:

The insanely tacky bathroom. We wanted to give the feel of a crappy nightclub, or sleezy stripclub! We've spent too much time in both!!

Moved the Caddy in:

We expect to get our occupancy permit tomorrow and will start moving racks and equipment in this weekend. Stay tuned!

 

[demonspeed]

When I grow up I want to be you lol. That's a hell of a collection of machinery there and an awesome shop.

 

[NUTTSGT]

We'll be waiting on the updates and more pictures.

 

[RoarkIndustrialSolutions]

Glad Scotty was able to take care of you. I've changed firms recently but still have most of the same solutions as well as tactical weapons storage and some other tactical solutions. Contact me at my new e-mail address if you need help with any equipment or what not. Shop's looking good! - [email protected]

 

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Wanted to update the thread a bit. We host a detail clinic twice a year. Every spring has been at our shop. This year was the first clinic at the new shop. It was held on 04MAY. We had excellent weather and a great turnout. We are planning another clinic in August, stay tuned!

Parking Lot was packed, people left, then it filled back up!

Here's a link to John Black's pictures:
http://s203.photobucket.com/user/jblack151/library/Thompsons%20Racing%20Adams%20Polishes%20Clinic%20May%202013?sort=2&page=1#/user/jblack151/library/Thompsons%20Racing%20Adams%20Polishes%20Clinic%20May%202013?sort=2&page=1&_suid=136987066945109477888297120984

 

[dubber]

Very cool man, looks like your hard work has paid off and your able to have a little fun on the side.

 

[LegacyIndustrial]

Eric, your floor looks amazing!!
Glad it worked out well.

 

[davin24]

MORE PICS OF THE CADDY PLEASE

 

[80WTI_55_CHEV]

That place of yours is unbelievable mate. Makes me want to go and clean my shed up.

 

[Lawson4450]

Yo homer didn't know you were on here too