New Trans Am 2 Mustang for Daytona Beach racer Bobby Kennedy. Power by Byron Koury: Dart aluminum block and heads. Woody plans to have this ready for the opening Trans Am round at Sebring in March.
[B][I]Is the shop at the same place it was when they first move to Florida?
In the winter of 1983//84, I was working for Gordon Oftedahl Racing Entreprise from Minnessota. He had 2 Trans Am Road Race cars he was renting to differents drivers. At that time, it was the 3rd biggest Trans Am team, after De Atley(Bud) and Huffaker(Pontiac). That winter, we went in Fla for the Sunbank 24(then) and the Miami Grand Prix. It was in the streets of Miami at that time.
In between the 2 events, we stayed in Fla, we had some practices to do at Moroso Parkway, and also some stuff to repair. That is when we went to Bemco Engineering. They had just moved to that brand spanking new shop with all the latest technology in dyno and surface plate for frame building and the whole none yards. It was somewhere close to or in Deland. I remember going there from Daytona by the 92. Geez that is along time ago. There was a guy working there, good guy, his name was Rosco, if my memory serves me right. He was the chassis and roll cage fabricator. I wonder if this is still all the same people owning and working there?[/I][/B]
Woody Wood, the owner of Bemco Fabrication worked for Bill Beminster at BEMCO Eng. from the mid 80’s until sometime in the 90’s as a fabricator. Bill then got out and Woody took it over under the name BEMCO Fabrication.
BEMCO Fab is located at 1862 Patterson Av in Deland over near the airport.
Woody has about 4500 sq ft there and is busy doing mostly Dirt, road race and hot rod type projects. Woody will tackle most anything though.
Woody worked on some of those road race projects back in the day and knew Gordy Oftedahl well as both were from Minn.
Thanks. On my next trip to Fla, I’ll swing by, just for memories sakes.