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I had the morning and the early afternoon free today and decided to take a trip up just north of Madison, Wisconsin to check out Accumoto Motorsport in Waunakee.
I am glad I went. I have been waking up at 4 every day recently so I just jumped in the car and took off. I hit the road at 5.
Filling up at daybreak.
No traffic of course. The shop opens at 7 am so I figured I'd get up there by 8 and have breakfast then go over.
I found a little bakery in a small town near Waunekee run by a ex-teacher who chucked the career to become a baker. Great muffins and they were fresh out of the oven.
I still had a little time to kill so I found a cheese shop( not freaking hard to do in Wisconsin).
Cheese helmets
At around 9, I headed over to Accumoto. It was in a non-descript industrial park like a lot of shops are.
I didn't have an appointment but the receptionist told me the owner, Mark White, was due in 5 minutes and that he'd talk to me. I really wasn't expecting that at all.
The lobby and shop are spotless and pretty damn nice. Lots of cool Porsche stuff to look at while I waited.
His shop is an air-cooled Porsche race shop and he builds very special cars for customers as well. Keep an eye out in the future for some articles about his builds.
Mark spent over an hour showing me around, let me take some photos and even gave me a shirt. Good dude.
I looked around a took some photos of a few customer cars and projects.
This Ghia will soon have a 911 motor in it!
After all that fun, I headed over to Madison to get some fresh ice cream from the UW dairy store. Hung out on the Terrace overlooking Lake Mendota and then hightailed it home.
I was gone for 8 hours, covered about 400 miles and saw some cool stuff. I have to do this again. Thanks again to Mark White. Check out his site here:
I have planned to stop at Accumoto for some time now. I need a "proper" alignment and I think they are the guys to do it. By the way, the Spring Green area near Madison has beautiful smooth paved twisty roads. Good for you for driving yours and not "holding back". I just recently made the decision to hold on to my 993 and not sell for a new 911. I'm approaching 100k and have been playing the mental game of "too many miles, must sell soon". After much soul searching, decided the air cooled is where to stay and just drive/enjoy it.
The roads up in that part of Wisconsin are very good. Especially all the letter roads.
Have fun.
--Michael
Agreed. Usually jump off 151 right over the river and head thru Cuba City, Argyle, New Glarus. Can't beat the "County Rd A's" of the state! Wonder if they could even get me in for an alignment if I called ahead... Thanks for the post and letting us know about a great shop local to us Midwesterners.
06-17-2016, 05:14 PM
Daytripping: Chicago to Madison
