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ABOUT DUTCHMAN...<br />
Dependability, excellence, innovation,<br />
creativity, and family<br />
values are a few of the<br />
adjectives one might use to describe<br />
the management team at Dutchman<br />
Motorsports, Inc.<br />
The Dutchman story began over 50 years ago in<br />
Portland Oregon when dad Keith did his first rear<br />
end and driveline conversion for his Olds powered<br />
’50 Chevy. Many other car projects lead to a<br />
circle track hobby, and while racing on a short<br />
1/8 mile track, Keith realized that to go faster, he<br />
would need stronger components to replace those<br />
which couldn’t stand the pressure of short track racing.<br />
Breaking parts fostered the development of a<br />
product line for circle trackers, such as billet steel hubs, a 9” Ford floater kit (which had a bolt on spindle), HD-High RPM drivelines,<br />
and more.<br />
The manufacturing of the specialized race car components took place evenings and weekends and caused the “part time” home<br />
business to grow from a 2 car garage to a full time business in a 3000 square foot commercial building in the late 70’s. The company<br />
sold products to local Portland customers and started gaining popularity among the local industrial / commercial businesses<br />
in the area. The company then incorporated in 1977 and “Dutchman Tool & Machine Works” was formed. Keith retired from circle<br />
track racing and devoted much of his time to keeping up with the still growing machine and manufacturing job shop. Even though<br />
the industrial / commercial jobs grew to 80% of the sales, the business still did <strong>axle</strong> shortening, narrowed rear housings, bolt pattern<br />
changes, and HD drivelines-all in house.<br />
11 years later the business grew into needing more space and moved into a 6500 square foot building-still doing the same kind of<br />
work, 80% industrial and 20% hot rods/race cars. Enter son Todd, who by this time, had worked in the shop for around 10 years,<br />
learning and mastering every aspect of the <strong>axle</strong>, housing, and machine shop business. Todd’s fresh vision and enthusiasm made 1990<br />
a pivotal year for the Dutchman company, and with the growing interest in performance street cars, race cars, & offroad vehicles,<br />
the need for a “stonger than stock” strip legal-street safe alloy <strong>axle</strong> came to light and the quest for Dutchman’s own line of new<br />
forged alloy <strong>axle</strong>s began. By 1992, Keith and Todd had tooled up the shop, secured a diverse line of <strong>axle</strong> “blanks”, and launched<br />
Dutchman Motorsports, Inc., the company you know today that brings you the line of custom rear ends, alloy <strong>axle</strong> shafts, & related<br />
driveline components available on a global basis. Fast forward to today, Dutchman currently operates in their new <strong>13</strong>,000 square<br />
foot building [in Meridian Idaho] and has 12 employees keeping busy year round. Their success can be summed up in one simply<br />
statement; they’ve never had the goal to be the biggest, just the best!<br />
Not only do we make and sell our own parts, but we also sell parts from the<br />
above companies. Air Ride Technologies, Flaming River, Ford Racing, ididit,<br />
Strange, QA1, Wilwood, Yukon.<br />
Custom Rear Ends & Alloy Axle Shafts
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