Many people I meet and speak to within the automotive industry agree with the old saying, “Do what you love for a living and you’ll never work a day in your life.” A career in our industry doesn’t really feel like a job most of the time. But what happens when you’ve reached a level of success doing something you love that it becomes all-consuming and you find yourself wanting a change?
For two leaders in the high-performance industry that is exactly what happened and is the reason for a big announcement that will surely set the industry abuzz. Longtime competitors Ron Mowen of Vengeance Racing and Howard Tanner of Redline Motorsports have informed us the two are teaming up to bring big things to the industry. With this somewhat unexpected and exciting news, I reached out to have a conversation with the newly formed dynamic duo and hear how a collaboration of this magnitude came to be.
Howard (kneeling in the background), spends many weekends helping customers with their cars at the track.
As competitors, Ron and Howard have grown their individual businesses and brands over the past decades to be at the forefront of late-model GM performance. “Ron and I have a bit of history going back to the very early days of the LS engine,” Tanner stated. “I think things really started getting spicy when the C6 came out in 2005. It was a new platform and we were all pushing for pole position.” More recently, after many years of friendly competition at various events around the country, Ron and Howard found themselves talking more frequently about their companies. “Over the last year, we have been running into each other at different races and find ourselves talking about our paths in the industry,” Ron recalled. “One thing led to another as we talked about our strengths and weaknesses as individuals and we joked about blending some of our ideas.”
Ron does it all at the track from driving his own race car, to helping customers and racing with his wife and son.
What started as a conversation of individual powerhouses led to joking about joining forces, and that has led to the creation of an all-star team. After 32 years at the helm of Redline Motorsports as owner and operator, Howard informed us that he is winding down operations at his facility in Pompano Beach, Florida, and will be relocating to Cummings, Georgia, to join Ron Mowen at Vengeance Racing. That bit of news no doubt raises questions, to which Howard and Ron explained clearly…
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