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They guy I am using now, just mentioned to me this morning, that they are no longer building racing engines, they are simply done with the big projects
The younger son is more or less taking over and they are concentrating more on doing valve jobs, milling heads, resizing rods , cutting /balancing cranks and general machine work geared more towards the kinds of things that local repair shops would be needing .
My last guy threw in the towel once get got a year behind on his rent . He was in the same building for 40 years. At one time , he had 4 full time guys, and two delivery vehicles on the road daily
The last job he did for me was sad. I picked up at 5:30. I sat and had a few cocktails with him and ended up shooting the breeze till late into the evening . Once he had a nice buzz on, he was tearing up a little at the thought of loosing his biz . He said that he had not done a cylinder head for any Dealerships in years, and that used to be his bread and butter . Racing engine work was drying up , and the only things keeping him floating was retail customer work and restoration stuff .
He sold a lifetime of equipment for 25 k , and walked away. I saw him stocking shelves at Costco last winter .