ABOUT OUR COMPANY

Since my father owned a Ford dealership before I was a kid and built modified oval-track roadsters, I got infected at an early age! Soon I began speaking "hot rod" and looking under all the race cars just like dad! Although I started building my own street rods in the mid-Sixties, it wasn't until 1974 that I began building chassis and hot rods full time. In 1980 we opened our first Jim Meyer street rod chassis shop in the Portland, Oregon area, and in 1991 we moved to the beautiful Oregon Coast town of Lincoln City!

Like the rest of the street rod industry, we are growing fast too, and knocking out walls for the next expansion! Our eight employees, along with my wife Deb, are busy making or selling our product line of over 14 IFS kits for classic Chevies, street rods, `vettes, early and late model pickups, kit cars, and custom IFS kits for large cars and cab-overs! We are currently very busy enlarging our line of computer-generated, mandrel bent, jig-built direct replacement chassis for classic Chevys, Corvettes, pickups and street rods!

GETTING READY FOR BONNEVILLE THIS YEAR

Yes, the old normally aspirated record of 108mph still stands, however Jim did break that record with his 117mph run for a normally-aspirated side car cycle. An official tear-down was required at the last minute on Friday night, but Jim had to go home.

This year, the 636 Kawasaki will be Yamaha turbo-charged to defeat the nearly 5000ft. elevation conditions and set an expected record of around 140mph. The turbo will add about 15lbs. of boost at 15,000rpms and the laptop-controlled digital fuel injection will be set for “Blast-off”. The modified chassis features a Jim Meyer designed triangulated stance on the new aluminum side car chassis and racked front-forks for the straight shot down the track. And, no, it's not a KTM. Jim has changed his mind and has decided If he's going to break records, to really go fast with this twin 636CC screamer! More to come on this project.