From Phoenix Arizona to Reno Nevada

Yesterday morning I visited two companies in Phoenix, one highly specialised in competition off-road cars, the other one building replica Porsche speedsters…

First the competition guys… this shop is led by a former Nascar Champion and a multiple award engine builder who made engines for the Penske team, and many others…

The shop was very impressive with loads of “big” machinery!

They fabricate a lot of parts and build all nicely together!!

They even have a four-wheel drive dyno, the only one in the Phoenix area as they told me…

They have two  dyno’s for motorcycles and ATV’s, the ATV competition market is huge for them!

The outside parking lot looked almost like a starting grid!

From there I drove to a company that bought a speedster replica factory in California, and moved it to Arizona… real nice speedsters! exported all over the world… this one goes to Croatia…

They build 1,5 to 2 cars a week..; a whole task…

Bodies are made in Mexico and painted in Phoenix…

In the building next door the owner housed his private collection of incredible nice American iron!

Around lunch time I left for Reno a full 12hr trip… with an extra 1,5 hrs delay in las Vegas because there was a crash in a road work….:(

Arizona is full of cactus as I told You yesterday… they’re about everywhere…:)

Hitting Nevada, at the Hoover dam, no time to stop sorry….:(

Soon after the traffic que in Vegas the sun went down and all went dark… I drove through the night, sad I can’t show You pictures from my favourite Highway 95 with very cool old places like Goldfield en Tonopah… maybe next time…:) so stay tuned!