MY LIFE AS ART

Biography

Hi. My name is Gregory W. Bailey, one of my ancestors Johanna Bartlette was a signer of the US Constitution, my great grandfather John F. Wentworth, M.I.T 1901, was on Edison's Board of Inventors and held the first patent on the diesel fuel injector. My father Charles G. Bailey was a design engineer and cartoonist for United Technology Corp. He was the package designer for the space suit's life support system that the first astronauts ventured into space with.  Tough acts to follow!
I started my career subconsciously when I was 6. I loved to draw, especially cars. By the time I was 10 I could draw a very accurate picture of any car. At 12 I started to build and design U-control model airplanes. At 14 I was racing them in competition with adults. At 18 my dad bought me my first car, a 61 Triumph Spitfire.  I successfully tuned up the engine by following the instructions in the manual, after a local shop had done a poor job. My interest in cars was rekindled!  Sports cars!
While fumbling around in college I took a job at an infamous  sports car shop in Farmington CT. Race & Rally Engineering. 2yrs later I found myself at the doorstep of International Automobile Enterprises, a new body shop owned by Phil Gaudette ,who I met at Race & Rally, with a sideswiped TR4A asking him to help me fix it before my parents found out. An unwitting start of a carrier in sports car restoration. After 2 yrs experience with Phil and 6 inches of good butt welding under my belt I struck out on my own at the site of a 200 yr. old abandoned axe factory to make my fortune restoring rusty Porsches for about 2 bucks an hour.
That was the beginning of what would become Roadster Design
Through many trials and tribulations I've become a jack of all trades and a Master of Many. From pioneering and mastering the art of uni-body restorations to designing and producing the first stainless steel heat-exchanger heaters for Porsche 911's, to today's  Clean Wood Furnaces it's been my mission to give my clients the best product for the money. Follow along with me as I develop, what I believe will be one of the best wood furnaces on the market.