Shop Information (The Dragstrip)
Main Entry Hall
Our main entrance to the building is very informative. Along the left
wall you will find most of our certifications (click
here to see our certifications). We may try to find room to hang some of our
less important, but interesting certifications in the future. Along the
right wall you will find a schedule of upcoming events including SCCA, drag
racing, car shows, and cruise-ins. Also, new products releases, sales, and
lists of consignment items are posted here for your review. At the end of
the entry hall is where the customer restroom is located. The end of the
entrance hall opens into the main store.
Checkout Area & Trophy Room
Our checkout area & trophy room is the area you enter from the entrance
hall. Our extensive trophy collection is also housed in this area. Although some of our trophies have been
lost or damaged during our moves, about 50 have survived and are
located here (there are so many that there are still more located in our
customer waiting room). Our main customer catalog rack is located in the
trophy area. We have one glass showcase here that houses various
items. A door behind the checkout leads to the service area. The
customer waiting room is located just off this area. From this area is
also how you enter the main showroom.
Main Showroom
Our main showroom is open now. We have most of our displayed products in
this area. To help keep the area clear for customers, most of our extensive
inventory is located in our two inventory areas in the building. We
have three mirror-backed showcases for the store. We have installed a computer (not
shown) on one of the showcases which is connected directly to the internet by
DSL for customers to browse manufacturer's websites as well as our own.
Second Showroom
Our second showroom is primarily devoted to electronics, including car
audio, vehicle lighting, security and convenience items, radar detectors, and
performance electronics. There are a few functional displays that
customers can use to see how the products will perform.
Customer Lounge
We have a comfortable customer lounge for those who wish to wait. We have a
comfortable leather couch
from Ethan Allen for customers. We have a television. We have a Super VHS VCR, a progressive scan DVD
player, and DirecTV digital satelite set up in this room with a Dolby Pro-Logic
receiver with 5.1 surround sound, center channel, and subwoofer for our
customer's pleasure. We have a
selection of DVD and VHS tapes to view, or feel free to bring your own. We often play demos of the popular Options
videos from Japan. Our receiver has input jacks for those customers
wishing to bring a video game system. We have two 10/100 base T ethernet hookups as well as
802.11b wireless connection to our DSL line if you would like to bring a laptop to
with. We often have the ability to pick you up some lunch when we pick
something up for our staff. For those bringing children, we have some toys
and a selection of coloring books and crayons.
Wholesale/Bookkeeping Office
We have a separate office now to take care of our wholesale
accounts. We currently have over 65 other shops that we supply. We also keep a
complete
reference library of books and magazines for the staff to use. There is also additional surveillance
equipment located in this office.
Shipping Area
We have a shipping area where we can prepare any packages for shipment to
our customers. We have a generous supply and type of packing materials and
various size boxes stored here to help us keep shipping weight down which helps
us to keep shipping costs down and shipping damage to a minimum. All
packages are sent out fully insured.
Inventory Areas
We have three inventory areas at Street Sports building one. The first
is primarily used for our regular
products that we stock, most of our fluids such
as oils and lubricants, and our waxes and other car care products. We keep most of the
heavier products here on two giant warehouse racks such as
headers, exhausts, intercoolers, and turbo kits. We also keep engine parts
from simple bolts, brackets, and engine mounts to power steering pumps,
alternators, distributors, air conditioning systems, radiators, and
transmissions. We also store many of the displays that are not currently in
use in the store. We keep our mobile electronics items such as autosound products here as well as having one of the most
complete inventories of automotive security systems and accessories in Kentucky.
The second inventory area is an upstairs area built over the customer waiting
room and checkout/trophy room and is home mostly to lighter weight items such as
body kits, carbon fiber hoods, and some larger items like wheels and nitrous
oxide kits. The third inventory is upstairs over top of the shipping area
and second showroom. We keep a back stock of magazines for sale.
Part of this area was also converted to a staff break area after we opened our
second building.
Garages
Our garage area in building one can hold as many as six cars at a time, although we
usually limit it to four, in order to give us more room to maneuver.
Building two can house about a dozen vehicles inside. Between the two
buildings, we have over $190,000 in tools and equipment. Although most is from Snap-On,
some specialty tools
from other vendors such as Mac, OTC, Weller, Porter-Cable, Motorvac, Fluke, Hypertherm, and
Lincoln-Electric are used when they have been shown to be the best. We are among the first
shops in the nation to have some of this equipment. Building two has a
metal fabrication facility with two parts washers, a glass bead cabinet, MIG,
TIG and ARC welders from Lincoln-Electric. A Hypertherm plasma
cutter. Metal polishing equipment. Twenty ton shop press. Many
other pieces of equipment. We have a wood and fiberglass fabrication
facility. We have a clean room specifically geared for engine
assembly. We also have a very large second level area to house additional
products, engines, and tires. There is a swingout gate for us to use a
fork lift to get pallets of parts up and down.
Workbench and Tool Area
This area is located in our second building. It is where we prep many of the parts we
install. The workbench has a one piece solid oak surface. It is very large and is home to
a bench grinder and wire wheel, a huge strut tamer, a Wilton vise, and two
interchangeable precision VersaGrip vises. We have a freezer for freezing
nitrous bottles before servicing located in this area. We have parts racks for
upcoming jobs, and we also keep most of our small parts, hardware, and
installation accessories housed here.
Wheel & Tire Area
This area is located in our second building. It is where we mount and
dismount tires using the industry's best machine, a Hunter TC3500 Evo-series
bead roller tire changer. It is run-flat certified and designed
specifically for tough applications. This is also where we balance the
wheel assemblies after the tire has been mounted using the industry's best
machine, a Hunter GSP9700 (ours is actually a 9712) road-force balancing
machine. It, along with a full Haweka adapter set from Germany (no longer
available in the US) insures the best possible balance that removes all
vibration from the assemblies. This machine can perform balancing that no
other dynamic balancer in the world can achieve, which is of course exactly why
we have one.
Click here for construction pictures of our new location expansion
Click here for construction pictures of our second location
Click here for construction pictures of our main location
Click here for pictures of our old Lexington location
Click here for older Dragstrip location pics
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