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Ok, this isn't my Honda, but I figured the Bonneville needed a day out after her harrowing experience in the garage a few days ago.


During my tenure at ProMedia, I took a break to go work in this building, which used to be Racepak, a maker of racing data recording systems used in cars and boats. After four years, the company was acquired by a large conglomerate of racing parts companies. We were closed down, and I returned to ProMedia. Thinking about it, I've had way more jobs shot out from under me than I have left voluntarily.

One of the reasons I wanted to visit this place was to talk with the current occupants, which I had found to be an off-road suspension company, was to see if there was still a funny car body hanging from the ceiling in the factory area. When I was there the company president made a deal with the curator of the NHRA museum in Pomona to acquire one of the fiberglass bodies used on Kenny Bernstein's 1984 Budweiser Tempo funny car. This was the first race car to use a Racepak data recording system, and the boss wanted it for posterity.

He also thought it would be a great inspiration to the workers to hang it upside down from the ceiling of the factory. It actually scared some of them to the point that they wouldn't work under it, but extensive studies had been carried out to make sure it was safe, and it held tight at least until I left the place.


Unfortunately, I never got to find out if it's still there. The building is now vacant, and there's no way to see inside.

Bummer.