Craig Nadeau

Email: nadeauc@webmaxim.com
Town & State: Calgary, Alberta
Web Site: http://www.kitcentral.com/cgi-bin/showprogress.cgi?builderid=53

Type of car: 99 Roadster Millenium Edition
Body: NAERC
Chassis: Tube/Fiero built by myself
Engine: Destroked SBC 400 - (377 cid)
Transmission: 79 Porsche 915, with dry sump and cooler
Starting Date: Dec 2000
Projected Finished Date: Maybe winter 2003
Influences: All the other builders to a certain extent. Endre B. a lot! Certainly the GT40 crowd and then the racing crowd too.

Occupation: President/CEO of Maxim Group Inc. and Maxim Group Staffing Inc.
President of Power Dynamics Inc.
I graduated from University 4 times.

Craig Nadeau, 35, Married, 2 kids - no pictures of the newest yet.

Competitive Mountain Biker, I ride close to 10,000 kms per year. Competes in 24 hour racing as a solo competitor.

I started working on cars at 13 years, my first car was a Mini Austin, and I paid $80 for. When I was 16, and after I had done a lot of work to it I started racing it in the local light car club. I then got a 1500 Triumph Spitfire, I spent a year restoring it from the frame up. I had the displeasure of being pinned under the car when a jack stand tipped. After these couple of cars I moved into trucks and started off roading a lot.

Along the line I worked on two other kit cars, a Seven replica and a Ferrari 308. I dabbled a bit with BMW's when I bought a 5 series and a couple of years later a 7 series. They are way to expensive and even harder to beef up. Over the years I did a lot of welding and mechanical work just for fun on the various cars and trucks. I did a lot of port and polish work on heads. I once put a 500+hp 383 into an 89 Chev S15 Jimmy. I built it to race and to also off road. There were few cars that I encountered that could out run her.

I have built a few other chassis and plenty of components with friends who race regularly.

My first dream for a kit was a Countach, I actually kept the advertisements from the late 80's. Prices have not changed much. I remember when I first saw the Diablo and thought that it was a bastardization of the Countach dream. I set myself a goal that I would buy my first kit before I was 35 and I did.

I started working on the chassis for this kit in DEC of 2000, I picked up the NAERC kit on DEC 14, 2001

My wife is the ultimate, she is very supportive and really knows a lot about Diablo's. If it were not for her there would be no kit.

If anyone needs help with any part of their kits I am happy to help.

This is Pierce...