Things don’t get much cooler than vintage race cars, except when you are creating custom parts for vintage race cars. Sonoma, California-based Adam Silver uses his Tormach PCNC 1100 mill to make parts for vintage racers and “better than aftermarket” components for his own sporty Mazda Miata, which he uses to occasionally burn some rubber on the track.

Tom Watts, Owner and Founder of TundraRacing.com launched his career at the race track. As a Southeast distributor for BBS of America, Watts had a long history in motorsport wheels. His intimacy with the aftermarket industry helped him identify a need for a rear disc brake conversion kit for many Toyota applications.

From his Anaheim, California, machine shop, Tormach PCNC 1100 owner and motorcycle enthusiast Brian Carmichael manufactures OMNI-CRUISE, a universal throttle lock/cruise control that he designed to enhance the riding experience for motorcycle enthusiasts around the world.

Here's a really nice build sequence from PCNC 1100 owner Jeff Rasnake, detailing how he made a custom stainless steel steering wheel for a Packard Hot Rod. First, he modified the original wheel by opening up the center bore to fit on to a new steering column:

Mechanical engineer by day, PCNC 1100 owner Vesa Silegren revs things up a bit on the weekends. Performance racing enthusiast and self-taught machinist, when Silegren isn’t out on the course in his Honda CRX, he’s back home in his Chattanooga, Tennessee based shop SV Technologies, LLC.

With a 26 year career as a General Machinist at Boeing, Kevin Bethards knows a thing or two about CNC. Owner of a PCNC 770 with a 4th Axis, Bethards has a small home machine shop where, using a custom dovetail fixture for his 4th Axis, Bethards milled a spark arrestor for a YZ250F motorcycle. “I came up with the idea for the dovetail fixture based on something we use at work, but I just scaled it down a bit.