Owner - Tom BollettieriPart gearhead, part geek, former quality engineer, 100% authentic.
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The "New Kid in Town" arrives with 40 years' professional automotive experience.
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18-year career with OEM Jaguar Land Rover North America
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42-year veteran gearhead
- Experience in the modification, restoration or performance enhancements on a broad range of vehicles. Be it bolting a nitrous kit onto a big block Chevy, building a fully customized '76 Alfa with experience tuning Weber carbs, or designing and tuning a highly modified Ford Focus for road racing.
- Tom has been making cars run more reliably and/or accelerate, turn and stop better than how they left the factory since he was issued a driver's license a little over 45 years ago.
Passion Becomes a ProfessionSomething about automobiles and motorsports has always captured my focus. Watching the Indy 500 on TV kicked off every summer for me as a young boy, and everything from Hot Wheels to HO slot cars and 1/24th scale models captured my full attention. When asked "what's your top career choice?" I told my High School guidance counsellor I wanted to be Mario Andretti. After some negotiation about being a city planner/engineer (to decide where the roads go etc) I figured becoming a world class professional mechanic was a practical alternative to becoming a world class professional racer. As a youth I was general nuisance to many quiet Bergen County neighborhoods driving vehicles like my big block '68 Camaro SS/RS. I've also had some classic Alfa Romeo's and a Fiat X1/9 registered under my name. Later in my adult life, through some encouragement from a close friend, I finally did get into some amateur motorsports. I spent 5 years actively competing as a member of the Sports Car Club of America with my almost new 2005 Ford Focus daily driver. First modified for Solo II/Autocross competition and Time Trial events on track; within 2 years that car was gutted and fully prepped as a purpose-built track car for club racing at venues like Watkins Glen, Lime Rock Park, Summit Point, Pocono, and both circuits at NJ Motorsports Park. Attention to detail in the planning, construction and maintenance of a vehicle built for racing is analogous to the care required to effectively service, repair and maintain modern luxury vehicles and classic collectible cars. I've always taken every technical lesson seriously, be it learned in a classroom on the hard way and always put quality before quantity. This passion is reflected in the BAAS facility I created to serve my customers, where the equipment, layout and lighting are designed to provide a premium environment to perform my work at the highest level of quality.
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