Feature Interview

This weeks interview is with Tess Winningham, CEO at  Alignment Simple Solutions and co founder of QuickTrick Alignment , makers of affordable and portable alignment tools. Tess admits she did not become a “gear head” until she met her husband Gary ”Mr QuickTrick”  Winningham. Gary is a former regional NASCAR racer, pit crew and master mechanic that is good at finding or making solutions to problems. 

Gary was into Chump Car racing and started looking for a way to easily check alignment at the race track. He looked around at many different products, but none of them did everything he wanted…so he designed his own!  Tess and Gary started selling his invention on eBay and at the track and it took off. The QuickTrick alignment package is now sold around the world and Tess is always looking for new distributors.

The key to the QuickTrick system is that it uses to component (a horizontal and vertical bar) yet places three reference points on each wheel, and also has an independent reference to a horizontal and vertical “zero” as well. This allows highly precise measurements to take place, and the design overall allows the flexibility to be used on cars of all shapes, sizes, and wheel arches (think of a covered wheel arch where the top of the tire is inaccessible – such as a ’57 Chevy). Bret Voelkel of Ride Tech saw the value immediately and was the first to jump on the distribution bandwagon! Today QuickTrick products are sold in a number of places familiar to all gear heads.

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