Renegade Issue 30

After Ohio bike week I gave my friend Aaron Brown a call

to see if I could drop by his shop to check out his worlds

fastest street legal rat rod! He was not at his shop, he was

in Indianapolis working for some clients who were racing in

the Indy Vintage Races. Aaron invited me to come spend

the week and hanging out while he worked with his clients

setting up their vintage race cars.

Aaron is truly a wizard at setting up a racecar! He worked

his way up through the ranks of NASCAR and was eventu -

ally asked by Dale Earnhardt to come work for him as crew

chief at Dale Earnhardt Inc. Unfortunately Dale Sr. was

killed right after he started working there. Aaron went on

to help both Dale Jr. and Michael Waltrip win the coveted

Daytona 500 and many other cup races, becoming one of

the winingest crew chiefs in NASCAR.

After retiring from the high pressure world of NAS-

CAR Aaron spends his days as a hired gun for vari-

ous drivers and setting world records with his rat rod!

It was a honor and a pleaser to watch Aaron do his

thing, his laid back style and extensive knowledge

of race cars had his clients cars the fastest cars on

the track! Putting Jody Odonnell on the pole in both

classes he was running in and taking a first place

win in one of them, he probably would have won the

other if he hadn’t over run a turn and lost his position

early in the race.

I spent most of the week just walking around the

track shooting photos of all the cool vintage cars

that were there at the track. There was everything

from pre-war cars to modern Indy cars, it was a car

guys paradice!