CSC RACING PRODUCTS INC.

Family values, top quality products, and outstanding customer service have long been recognized as the keys to success!

Welcome to CSC Racing Products. We are Ralph and Jennifer de Winter, and we operate a family owned and operated business that has been operating successfully in the USA and Canada for over 30 years.

Since 1974, CSC Racing Products, then known as Canadian Stock Car Products, has developed well beyond the roots of the original stock car business that Jennifer's dad, Bill Salter bought in the early seventies. Today, a walk through our shop reveals a tremendous breadth of motorsport activity. Although stock cars were at the core of the original business, they must now rub shoulders with everything from Cobra Kit cars to vintage racers, from Trans-Am development projects to GT's - even racing boats and custom excercise equipment manufacturing projects appear on our shop floor!

1974 saw the company make its first foray into the broader world of road-racing. Honda Canada selected CSC to build the roll cages for the new showroom-stock Honda/BF Goodrich (later Honda/Michelin) racing series. CSC continued to build up to 75 Honda cages a year, until the series ended in the early 1990's. The innovative - and very successful - Honda/Michelin series was quickly accompanied by other, similar road-racing series such as the General Motors/Players Challenge, Rothmans/Porsche Turbo Cup, Firestone Firehawk, and many others. At one Toronto lndy, 29 of the 33 IROC Camaros on the grid had been prepared with roll cages from CSC!

Interestingly, in 2004 Honda/Michelin came back with a Honda Civic series and once again selected CSC Racing Products as their sole cage kit supplier. 35 cages were ordered for Eastern Canada.

Bill's family started to join the business in the late 1970's when son-in-law Ralph de Winter came aboard. Bill Salter Jr. joined in 1980 followed by daughter Jennifer de Winter in 1987. With Bill Salter Sr.'s retirement in November of 2000 responsibilities are now shared with Ralph handling engineering, product development and technical sales, Bill Jr. managing production and shipping/receiving, while Jennifer is now the General Manager looking after administration, advertising, internet and retail sales.

With a move in 1981 to the Concord shop, Bill took the opportunity to re-tune the name of the business to its current form - CSC Racing Products Inc. - in order to better reflect the firm's more extensive racing involvement.

This move expanded the retail store, complementing the growing manufacturing business. Today, racing safety products are stocked by such manufacturers as Bell, HANS, AFCO, Wilwood, Longacre, Kirkey, Leaf, and Bicknell's. In fact, everything except engines, tires and fuel are available to local racers at this one-stop race shop.

One of our more unusual activities is our involvement in the stunt industry. All of the vehicles that are jumped, rolled, crashed, driven through walls, over cliffs, and otherwise demolished in television or movies filmed in Toronto and Montreal need to be prepared with roll cages, fuel cells, seats, seat belts, and other state-of-the-art safety equipment to protect the stunt drivers from injury. CSC Racing Products has developed into the number one source for all of this specialized gear and fabrication.

Another interesting business that we have developed is the design and fabrication of all of the chassis and suspension components for JOHNEX III. CSC's relationship with the Cobra Kit Car business began over a decade ago with the design of a tubular chassis for the 427 Cobra replicas for then owner Steve Dalnoki. We now produces five chassis lines and continue to advance the engineering of previously developed products.

CSC designed and fabricated the chassis for the Cobra Daytona Coupe. This car has been featured extensively in Kit Car Magazine, and won several prestigious US kit-car awards for excellence of design and fabrication.

Since the first computer arrived at CSC in 1983, this technology has had a tremendous impact on their business. The 427 chassis was designed before computer aided design existed, and in fact the suspension geometry was worked out - full scale - in chalk on the shop floor! Now, every manufacturing design detail is carefully developed and perfected in AutoCAD 2000® before fabrication commences. The Cheetah and Daytona Coupe chassis' were designed on-screen, as was the tubular CSC Trans-Am chassis and the American Race Trucks tubular chassis.

With six full-time fabricators working in the shop, a chassis-a-day production rate is not uncommon. Plus, of course, all the cage kits and other custom steel items CSC offers. Every day of the week, transport trucks back up to the loading dock to take those items - plus interior sheet metal kits, frame kits, and other items - to customers across the length and breadth of North America. CSC has even shipped a container of cage kits, seat mount kits and interior sheet metal kits to Switzerland for Stock Car use.

With a move to Newmarket, Ontario in 1998 CSC now occupies 10,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing space with a large retail facility to complement the chassis/cage kit business. The business is located at 125 Harry Walker Parkway North, one light west of 404 highway north of Davis Dr. in Newmarket, Ontario.

From a small beginning, CSC has become an international success, and a very substantial business, which is only appropriate. Family values, top quality products, and outstanding customer service have long been recognized as the keys to success!