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- BUSINESS, Page 57Business NotesTRUCKINGCushy Ride For Indy Cars
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- Seventy years ago, race-car drivers like the legendary
- Barney Oldfield used a simple method to bring their cars to the
- track: they drove them there. No more. Today's million-dollar
- race cars are hauled around in souped-up trailers equipped with
- elevator platforms for loading, fully outfitted machine shops,
- wood-paneled meeting rooms, stereos and videocassette recorders.
- Says former racer Bruce Canepa: "Race-car trailers are an art
- form in themselves."
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- Canepa has good reason to boast. His company, Concept
- Trailers, based in Santa Cruz, Calif., builds trucks for
- transporting race cars, crews, tools and supplies in classy
- comfort. His 50-ft. trailers, which sell for an average
- $275,000, hauled 30 of the 33 cars that were to take part in
- Sunday's Indianapolis 500.
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