A visit to Duman's Turn 4 Restorations 

During the recent IRMA/Indy Bench Racing Weekend 2019, the author was part of a group that visited Rick Duman's Turn 4 Restorations shop in Brownsburg Indiana.

The shop is large, clean, spacious and filled with racing treasures in various states - unrestored, in various stagesof being restored and ready to run. Most are Indianapolis cars, but there are sports and formula racing cars there as well. 

The shop takes it's name from Rick's boyhood home which was located at 25th and Georgetown Roads in Speedway, where Rick's father, two-time 'Little 500' winner Ronnie Duman, built a four-car shop on the property. As an young man, Rick worked as a race meachanic and rose to become chief mechanic  for Tony Bettehausen Racing and later Chip Ganassi Racing. 

Rick was awarded the Clint Brawner Mechanical Excellence Award in 2005, emblematic of a man who demonstrated "the mechanical and scientific ingenuity, perseverance, dedication, enthusiasm and expertise" of the legendary Brawner.  

All photos by the author