BangShift.com pals Kyle and Stacy Tucker at Detroit Speed and Engineering collected the prestigious Business of the Year award from the Hot Rod Industry Alliance at their annual Industry Awards ceremony here in Las Vegas. The company has been innovating and showing their products in creative ways for years and this is great recognition of their efforts. The truly BangShift.com approved story involves their Camaro, though.
At
the 17th annual Good Guys Southeastern Nationals at Charlotte Motor
Speedway on October 30th, just 36 hours before the team was scheduled to
leave with the 1969 and 1970 Camaros for the Optima Ultimate Street Car
Invitational in Nevada, the ’69 caught a case of concrete poisioning in the left front fender. Despite the damage, the car still ran and drove after the impact, and Stacy
climbed right back into it to make another pass at the Street Challenge
Autocross. Two hours later the car was back at Detroit Speed’s Mooresville, NC
headquarters getting the right front fender massaged back into shape.
In an epic show of determination and racer spirit, the guys
in the shop had the front fender in primer that same night. After a couple of
hours sleep, they shot LeMans Blue on the bad boy and added the white hockey
stripe, a refurbished badge, and a new bumper. The fix was made just in time to
load the Mast Motorsports powered Camaro into the hauler along with husband
Kyle’s 1970 Camaro test car and head toward Las Vegas and the 2010 SEMA Show.
Both cars are competing in the 2010 Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational at
Pahrump, NV this weekend.
Major kudos to Stacy for having the guts to get right back
on that horse, and to Kyle and the rest of the Detroit Speed gang for making it
happen like any good racers would.
Major congratulations go out to Kyle, Stacy, and all the very hard working guys and girls back at the shop who make the Detroit Speed and Engineering world go ’round. You dudes and dudettes know this already, but Stacy raved about you and your work when she told us about the award.
They took this and made it perfect in almost as much time as it took us to type this item!
