Posted on January 20, 2015 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
Thanks to the efforts of SEMA, almost every state in the United States has easy and clear guidelines for the registration, inspection, and titling of custom cars, usually referred to as specialty constructed vehicles. This includes hot rods, Cobra replicas, and customs like our Factory Five 818. I live in Rhode…Read More
Posted on January 19, 2015 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
Following the 818S roadster and the 818R track car comes the 818C coupe. Here are some spyshots of the soon-to-be-released Factory Five 818C hard top coupe. The new coupe will be unveiled at the 2015 summer Open House, and we are building the chassis right now in the engineering shop.…Read More
Posted on January 16, 2015 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
Our good friend Ray McEdward forwarded us the Snap-On 2015 calendar which highlights Factory Five customer Mike Wilkinson's green Factory Five Mk3 Roadster. Congratulations to Mike on his inclusion among some very serious cars! Ray was also kind enough to mark his birthday in the calendar! Mike's Mk3 is featured…Read More
Posted on January 15, 2015 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
David Chick and the crew at RodAuthority.com have just posted a great article on the Factory Five '33 Hot Rod built by Ford Racing and Watson Engineering powered by Ford's AWESOME 365 HP V6 EcoBoost engine! “We’ve worked with Factory Five for several years, in particular on their Cobra kit…Read More
Posted on January 13, 2015 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
The team at the Factory Five Build School held at Mott Community College in Howell, MI are excited to announce that they are now accepting students for their new 818S build classes. Similar to the Mk4 Roadster and '33 Hot Rod classes, you and a group of students will spend…Read More
Posted on January 5, 2015 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
Factory Five's favorite studio photographer Dino Petrocelli took a ton of great pictures of customer Ed Seagroatt's period-correct '33 Hot Rod. We've put together a gallery of some of our favorite photos that Dino took which you can check out by clicking here. Factory Five customer Ed Seagroatt with his…Read More
Posted on December 31, 2014 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
Above: Customer Bob Capps and his son built a beautiful Mk4 Roadster, and scored multiple show wins in 2014. Bob was one of a huge number of amazing customer stories logged in 2014. As the hours and minutes wind down on 2014, I can look back and honestly say…Read More
Posted on December 30, 2014 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
Factory Five customer Ed Seagroatt won "Best in Show" at our 2014 Open House, and his beautiful period-correct '33 Hot Rod was profiled recently in the pages of "Street Rodder Magazine". This month, Ed is featured on HotRod.com with more photos of his build. Congratulations Ed! Check out the full…Read More
Posted on December 30, 2014 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
"We started with nothing more than a pile of parts, a wrecked Subaru, and an instruction manual, and we finished with a car that can attract drooling bystanders, beat a Porsche on a track, and take you to work every day." - Grassroots Motorsports Magazine The crew at Grassroots…Read More
Posted on December 23, 2014 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
I met Pedro at our 2009 Factory Five Racing Open House. Pedro and his wife had traveled to Factory Five from the Minneapolis, MN, and were planning on building a car in the Dominican Republic! After the Open House, I invited them to dinner at my house with some Factory Five customers…Read More
Posted on December 22, 2014 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
It’s cool to see Factory Fives getting press on the other side of the Atlantic! A few years ago, we debuted a beautiful race rod built by Peter Skogland and his sons from Sweden. Their car debuted at the 2012 SEMA Show. Since then, there have been a slew of…Read More
Posted on December 22, 2014 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
I was humbled to receive one of the coolest Christmas presents of all time from Tony and the crew here at Factory Five. It is a 1950s Gilbarco Model 96C ad glass model service station pump. It was originally a Texaco pump, and Tony has Mike from Extreme Powdercoating change…Read More
Posted on December 15, 2014 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
2014 is the second year since the PRI Show returned to Indianapolis from Orlando. SEMA has taken over ownership of the PRI Show, and attendance is significantly higher. Factory Five Racing was at PRI as a guest of Ford Racing with our '33 Hot Rod that debuted a month ago…Read More
Posted on December 9, 2014 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
Factory Five customer Mike J. in Miami, FL sent us some photos of his stunning GTM. Mike started his build in the summer of 2011, and is nearing the finish line of his build. Mike built his GTM with a Chevy LS engine mated to a Porsche G50 transmission, F14 Titanium Forgestar…Read More
Posted on December 5, 2014 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
Congratulations to Factory Five customer Ed Seagrott and Fred Hemmings of FWH Customs Restorations from Nassau, New York for their great work on a truly stunning Factory Five '33 Hot Rod. Ed's car is featured in this month's (February 2015) "Street Rodder Magazine" which is on the newsstands now. You may remember…Read More
Posted on December 4, 2014 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
This weekend on "PowerNation," tune in to see five women build a Factory Five Mk4 Roadster in only five days on "Detroit Muscle". The episode originally aired this past spring, and will be replayed four times over the next week. Check out the TV schedule below with the air dates,…Read More
Posted on November 26, 2014 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
After a long wait, the Factory Five-Sherwin Williams line of car paints officially have names. Here's the list of names along with the winner's name. All selected winning names have received a $50 Factory Five Parts Catalog Gift Certificate. Here's the official Factory Five line of Sherwin Williams paint colors.…Read More
Posted on November 26, 2014 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
It has been a great year, and we want to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving! The crew will be break early today and shut down at 3 PM EST for the long 4-day weekend. We are closed on Friday, and will be open for tours on Saturday from 9 AM…Read More
Posted on November 24, 2014 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
At this year's SEMA Show, Titanium Media's Greg Hoy shot a couple of videos with Factory Five President Dave Smith. In this first video, Dave talks with Wayne Geoffrey at Ford Racing Performance Parts at SEMA 2014 about the FFR '33 Hot Rod they built to showcase their new EcoBoost…Read More
Posted on November 20, 2014 by Dave Lindsey in What's New
"If you don’t know if you have the skills to build a Factory Five, you don’t have to worry about it,” says Dave Smith of Factory Five. “Just go to a three-day build school." At the 2014 SEMA Show earlier this month, the crew from Power Automedia visited the Factory…Read More
