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ocker for durability. This car had about 700hp, and did very well. Well
enough to take 1st place in the AGT class, a major accomplishment for
all involved indeed. We ran the entire season, finishing second, only
losing it on the last race.”
Dave continued to campaign the car. “In 2001 we ran the Camaro once
more, but on a limited race schedule with Andy McNeal driving. But in
2002 we did not race on a National level; we did mostly HSR and PCA
club race events, maintaining club cars.
2003 brought another shop move up to Thomasville and a name
change to Speedwerks. “While at Speedwerks, we built a 3.6 twin
turbo 914 for driver Andy McNeal. We raced this car for a number of
years, developing and refining it along the way. The 914 was putting
out approximately 800 peak horse power. We had a lot of success with
this car with a 110 class wins and 55 overall wins. We once almost
beat a 962, owned and driven by Don Style, only losing by a few car
lengths.” In 2006 Speedwerks built a Mazda to race in the Grand-Am
series. This RX-8 was unique to the other Riley built Mazda’s in the field
in that Dave’s design incorporated a Porsche torque tube from a 944.
“The first year we brought it to Daytona and went through tech inspection,
we had a lot of strange looks and questions from the officials, but
it’s totally legal and runs competitively”
Dave moved once more to his current location in Lexington in 2009,
now named RennGruppe Motorsports, maintaining many PCA club
race cars and two race car collections with some seriously nice cars
in them. RennGruppe is currently developing a VW GTI race car for a
new support series, building a radical 1953 Bent window 356 with
a multilink suspension and 3.6 engine, and is continuing what Dave
likes best - engine building - getting historic engines shipped from all
over the world for him to rebuild. “The only one I haven’t done yet is the
12 cylinder 917 engine. Yet.”
Dave says from a mechanics perspective, “The opportunity to work on
what many consider the best there is – Porsche. Well built, proper,
done correctly, the highest quality and standards. What also makes
what I do so great are really the people in the PCA, with the same interest
in these great cars that I have, many of the same customers have
been coming back since 1994.”
‘Till the next Rambling, your historian.
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