Timeline

Racefab's Motorsports Timeline

1970’s – 1980’s Joel Jackson raced various forms of motorsports, with numerous sanctioning bodies. Resulting in several championships.

1984 – 1991 Joel & Marty relocated from Texas to California where Joel accepted a position with Chrysler at the Chrysler/Shelby Performance Center, working with Motorsports Legend Carroll Shelby in the capacity of race car designer, fabricator and crew chief. Over the next 6 years he contributed the following:

*Design/Fabricate/Develop prototype Chrysler cars, trucks and components

Shelby Viper

V-8 Dakota

GLH

GLHS

All Wheel Drive Daytona

All Wheel Drive T115 Mini Van

Dodge Shadow CSX

Mopar Performance Parts

*Design/Fabricate race cars to further Chrysler’s Performance Image

I.M.S.A. Firehawk Series

I.M.S.A. International Sedan Series

S.C.C.A. Escort Series

SCORE Class Seven Off-Road Racer

S.C.C.A. Shelby Can-Am Series

S.C.T.A. Land Speed Record Racer

These efforts resulted in numerous track record, race victories, two world championships and 5 land speed records.

Joel Jackson awarded the prestigious TRW I.M.S.A. “Mechanic of the Year” award for his work with Team Shelby

*In this same period Joel found time to fabricate and crew for additional racing efforts:

*1988-1989 Hendrick Racing I.M.S.A. GTO/American Challenge Oldsmobile

*Ford Land Speed Car/ Driver: Steve Hope

*SCORE Class One Jeep Cherokee/ Driver: Jack Johnson

Spring 1991-1999 Carroll Shelby – Lemans winning road race car constructor becomes first customer for newly formed Racefab, Inc. A partnership between Joel and Marty Jackson Shelby American awarded Racefab, Inc. the contract to take over production of Shelby American’s Can-Am Spec Series, contract continues through today, even with the change of series owner. Racefab was formed in Houston, Texas. Marty Jackson became business manager, while Joel handled design and construction. To complement our Shelby Can-Am cars Racefab introduced chassis for competition in:

* Designed and Developed Competition Automobile for S.C.C.A. GT-1 & SCCA Pro-Racing Trans-Am Series

* Designed and Developed Competition Automobile for S.C.C. A. GT-3 Club Racing Series

* Designed & Developed C-Sports Racer for SCCA Competition

* Designed & Developed D-Sports Racer for SCCA Competition

* Won the National Championship in SCCA Club Racing every year

*Won the National Championship in SCCA Pro-Racing every year

Along with these Racefab also provided chassis for these spec series:

* Design and developed ARCA Stock Car for Road Race Competition

* Designed and Constructed 343 Ferrari spec series for Ferrari of America Ferrari Challenge Series

* Constructed 25 Voda-Com South African Lemans Series Road Race Vehicles

* Designed and Constructed 12 single seaters and 2 tandam seater C.A.R.T. Race Cars for Mario Andretti School of Racing (formerly C.A.R.T. Driving 101) (see these in the movie “Driven”)

1999 Racefab, Inc. buys Cherokee Cap Company’s facility and relocates it’s Motorsports fabrication to Rusk, Texas

2000 Racefab, Inc. forms Off-Road International, a group that works specifically on Off-Road projects. Off-Road International gets off to a great start designing and fabricating a Ford Expedition for a factory supported team competing in Casey Folks, B.I.T.D. Series. The first race for the new Expedition is the Nevada 2000 where over 200 Ford engineers watched a brand new, untested machine not only finish the event, but place 3^rd in class against veteran desert racers, Rod Hall and Marc Stein. Driver Chuck Elms (nephew of Mint 400 champion Glen Emory) says of his Off-Road International designed desert Expedition, “everything you did was perfect.”

* 962 Porsche Open Road Racer – This machine uses the body and aero package from the now outlawed eighties GTP car combined with a Racefab semi-monocoque chassis and 700 cubic inches of Chevy power

* Two tandem seat INDY cars for C.A.R.T. Driving 101 to complement their Racefab
constructed single seaters

· Off-Road International’s Designs and Constructs the Tough Terrain Trailer

125 Trailers Shipped throughout the United States

· Off-Road International’s new design 3-axis hitch Tough Terrain Off-Road Trailer

· Racefab’s chassis continue to win with 17 National Victories in S.C.C.A. Pro Road Racing

2007-2008 * Racefab contracted by NASA to help in the structural analysis of the Lunar Rovers

^ Racefab contracted by NASA to fabricate 2 – Lunar Rovers for the 2020 Orion

· Joel completed his book “Fast-Days”, this is the story of the events, engineers, test drivers, mechanics, personalities, and above all, the cutting edge cars that were the creations of the legendary Chrysler-Shelby Performance Center

Racefab, Inc. reflects the immense variety of motorsports that one sees around the world today. While some prefer to focus in one area, by opening our doors to many forms of motorsports we stay on the frontier of design, fabrication and machining to offer creative solutions to specific challenges.