Meet your donors

One of the most commonly asked questions I get are where I source my parts for my builds. “Everywhere” is typically what I’ll most often reply. Rebar I find in the ground. Cheap items from Goodwill. And the occasional barn find at some swap meet or antique mall. Hell, I’ll even veer through 6 lanes of traffic to stop and pick up something off the roadside. But the lion’s share of what I build with can be found only steps from the desk of my 9 to 5. I spend my days at a little shop in Kennesaw called Goldcrest Motorsports. We do all things Porsche. Race and street. And yes this is a shameless plug for the old boys to drum up some new business for them. More importantly, take-off parts for me.

On the race side of the shop is where most of these items in your lamps and yard art originate. Porsche Motorsports has a strict schedule (by hours) of how long you can run engines, gearboxes and axles before a tear down and rebuild are needed. And adherence to this schedule is usually not a recommendation but a requirement if you plan on keeping a car running, competitive, and most of all safe.

So as long as there are fortunate individuals in this world who are driving quarter of a million dollar race cars for grins and giggles, I’m assured of a never ending supply of their take-off parts. And if one day this all drys up, or the government succeeds in shutting down the racing industry as a whole (as they’ve been trying to do for nearly two decades now) something tells me that I’ll survive. There’s a whole world of junk out there that I haven’t even scratched the surface of yet.