Just like with its owner, Hamke Race Cars & Parts is a place that knows everything there is to know about race cars.
One look inside the shop, littered with race cars and the tools to make them, shows how solid the operation really is.
Hamke Race Cars & Parts does everything but build the engines that go in the cars. Hamke offers clients everything from a bare-frame chassis, a rolling chassis, a chassis with interior, a rolling chassis with nor body, a complete car or a turn-key (race ready) car.
“Whatever clients want us to do, we will pretty much do it,” said owner Robert Hamke.
Most of Hamke’s clientele come from the Super Late Model or Pro Late Model world. Hamke Race Cars & Parts also does Late Model Stocks, Hooters Cars and refurbishing and rebuilding of several types of older cars, including NASCAR Elite Division “perimeter style” cars and old ASA National Tour cars.
Hamke Race Cars & Parts also specializes in fixing and rebuilding wrecked race cars.
“If they wreck ‘em, we fix ‘em,” said Hamke.
Cars can be brought into the shop as a whole so the employees take the car apart or comes in with just a bare chassis that needs fixing. Either way, the car gets fixed and heads back out the door.
Hamke Race Cars & Parts has about seven to nine employees at any one time. The 12,000-square foot building is housed in the Mooresville Dragstrip Motorsports Complex.
Almost all of Hamke’s work is done in house.
From purchased tubing that is bent on a number of machines and welded, to sizing, fitting and setting the cars on the jig. Hamke also makes all upper- and lower-control arms in house, along with shock mounts, steering hangers and a number of other products.
