what does it take to keep racing a rare car? A lot of frames, and other parts of course. But, George was just telling me how many chassis he built for the Grand Sport Corvette, and getting mentioned in the book about them

George writes:

Shortly after I opened that shop (new one after moving from Texas) I got a call from the Grand Sport people wanting me to build them more frames which I agreed to do. 

I built a dedicated fixture to build their frames that was light years better than their flat table. Things went along pretty good for a while. 

I always required them to bring a check in full for each frame. Then, they sent the driver with no check. Since it was about 500 miles one way I told the driver to have his boss just send me a check. 

Took a while for that to happen so I decided that I would never let a frame leave my shop building without a check in my hand.

That's the other take away from this, not only do race cars go through a lot of frames, but they might not be ready to pay for them on time every time. Always get paid first. No matter how bad they need what you have, some people won't blink and stabbing you in the back. 

I built a dedicated fixture to build their frames that was light years better than their flat table. My fixture built with the bottom side flat so I could flip it over to build a roadster

Another take away is when building a frame jig, put it on a plate you can flip over, and build something else with on the other side! 

https://www.amazon.com/Fifty-Years-Corvette-Grand-Sport/dp/B0D2PTP4N6

Thank you George!

If anyone has a copy of this book, and you find the page that mentions George building the frames/chassis, can you take a photo of it and send it to me? I want to make sure I get George credited for this! Seriously, imagine you constantly get to talk to a race car frame and 9" rear cases, and get to blog about it?  So, hell yeah I'd like to post that page