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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.