I'm finding the same thing out here in the Chicago suburbs. Almost every good-sized town around here used to have a radiator shop when I was a kid. Now I only know of a couple and I have to travel 30 or 40 miles to get to them. One of them is a young kid that was a truck mechanic for a construction company, no experience but he bought out one of the last shops and told me that the owner gave him a crash course in radiator repair. One of those deals where the wife and six kids, two in strollers, are always hanging around the office and shop.
I mentioned earlier that there are still some specialty shops that make a good living from custom make radiators for performance vehicles. In the past we’ve had a few made for the midgets and sprint cars. But you will most likely find them on the west coast or around the big tracks like Indy, Daytona, Darlington etc.
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL
