Power is Back at Factory Five!

[Dave Smith]

Power has been restored here at Factory Five Racing, and work continues on the Cape and coastal areas affected by the storm. We are going to spend the next few days catching up after two days closed.

Big thanks to all of you for your patience. Especially to customer James D. who arrived to pick up his kit and found an empty cold building yesterday! Nate came in to load him up without power, and found James in the back parking lot cooking brats on a weber grill and waiting for us to get in! Nate was able to load him up and get him back on the road to Wisconsin despite the power failure! The best people in the world build our cars.

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Mad Dog and Sally get systems back on line.

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Good morning ladies!

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Storm cleared to a blue sky New England late winter day.

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Back to life!

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Coupe central!

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Truck central. Chassis being QC’s and prepped in R&D.

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818C and twin heading out next to Type 65 Coupe and Coupe-R on the lift.

[Dave Smith]

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’35 Truck production will likely stay on target despite the down time from the storms.

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[rponfick]

In-floor jack install looks great.

Are the hot rod pickup pictures of the custom build, or will production model have roll bars also? I would need some really tall neighbors to fit body.
Ralph

[Stillwater35]

Those truck frames are looking awesome. Are any of those #4? Really like the full cage, and the gusseting work.

It's warming up here in Minnesota which means it's almost kit time!

[FFinisher]

Production pickups will have the roll bars shown.

Those are pre-production chassis. But they are very close to production samples..

[rponfick]

Do you suppose you can delete the roll bars in your order, or are they required for chassis strengthen?
I thought I had seen previous comments by FFR that they would not have roll bars. It would be nice to have definitive answer from FFR before completing orders.
It appears to me it will be very difficult to get the body cab on/off easily for the many required trial fittings.
Just my 2 cents.

Ralph