Fast growth: Burnyzz Speed Shop keeps on going
Andy Fillmore
Burnyzz Classic American Horse Power owners Josh and Brittanie Hart have shifted their collectible car enterprise into overdrive.
Burnyzz has grown over the past 10 years from a mobile car detail service to a five-building complex collectable car mecca that covers a square block on Baseline Road about a mile south of Maricamp Road.
The business, known simply as Burnyzz to area car enthusiasts and pronounced Bernie s, now employs 15 people. It s been a lot of work, Josh Hart said.
At Burnyzz, an enthusiast can buy a specialty car, like a one-owner 1967 Austin Healy or a 1956 Dodge Coronet with 49,000 original miles and have it modified to taste. Or they can bring in their late-model Mustang or Camaro for modification, said general manager Brian King.
Last week’s “Name a random racer” column drew an avalanche of emails that will be fodder for a feature column, but, as promised, this week I’m talking about my random guy: Top Fuel driver Yuichi Oyama.
Unless you lived in Japan, where he competed in Top Alcohol Dragster and Top Fuel, you’d probably never heard of him until his debut at the 2002 Winternationals, but by year’s end, everyone from Don Garlits to Kenny Bernstein had felt the sting of his brief eight-race appearance on the tour that season.
Oyama, who hailed from the Shinagawa ward in Tokyo Japan, purchased turnkey the ex-Don Prudhomme dragster owned by Southern Californian Robert Reehl and hired Reehl and his crew to run it for him.