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Do you have an automotive side hustle? | Column | Articles

Do you have an automotive side hustle? | Column | Articles

What’s your side hustle? Have you been able to put a passion project into play?

Do you gig with a local band? Offer welding services to local racers? Trick out die-cast cars that you sell via Etsy?

I guess mine started with photography. Race car photography, of course. 

As a student at UGA, I had Road Atlanta about an hour away. Once I figured out how to request a media pass–hello, business center fax machine–I was set. I might have also made up my own official-sounding company name and printed some letterhead on one of the Mac Pluses in the computer lab. 

A photo pass meant a front-row seat with the possibility of selling some pics–or at least getting them published. And maybe that would, one day, lead to getting paid. (A boy can dream, right?)

I landed some early takers, too: the Atlanta Region SCCA newsletter plus Alfa Owner, SportsCar and a magazine out of Florida called Grassroots Motorsports. 

But I never launched my own venture….

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