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DAVE HANDY

Dave was born in 1959 and raised in Redding, Connecticut. He was your typical high school athlete playing baseball, basketball and many other sports. In 1974, his dad took him to Lime Rock and he was hooked. Dave's first project was a non-running 3.8 Jag sedan. He was able to get the car back on the road and turned it over to his dad after a couple of years driving it himself.

After high school, Dave continued to work in a couple of shops doing mechanical work and some restoration. In 1977, Charlie invited him to work with him at his house, working on Charlie's cars, which at that time were a Mk 1 Lola and also doing a ground up restoration on his 1959 Lister Chevy which was eventually purchased by John Evans of Canada.

In 1988 when Sasco moved into its first commercial location, Dave married and had two children, Jillian and Ryan, who were often seen at the track with Dave. Jillian still loves to travel with her dad and enjoys seeing the many friends she has made at the track.

In the summer of 2009, Dave re-connected with long time friend Robyn Pass, fell madly in love, proposed on Oct 30th, and the couple married in the summer of 2010. Robyn is loving seeing old friends at the track and getting more involved with the company and its customers. Vintage racing has always been Robyn's passion, and she is looking forward to being even more involved in 2012.

As the business has grown, Dave, of course, has grown with it. Today, Dave and his award winning crew, oversee the maintenance of Stevie Hynes' March 78B, Jim Hamlin's Lotus 11, Hobie Buppert's beautiful Lola T70 and Denny Wilson's Lotus 7, among others.

Dave gets on the track regularly. in either his M6B McLaren, Brabham BT29 or his Swift DB2 S2000. Driving his Brabham in 2010, he not only won the Monoposto Formula B Championship for the third year running, but also the SVRA group 2 Sprint championship and HMP's Monoposto Classic championship.