Flashback Friday

Since Christmas is right around the corner, we thought we'd share this picture from Christmas 1980.  Here, Mark is feeding his daughter, Casey, while reading the latest copy of Car Craft Magazine.  We think this photo captures the essence of Mark pretty well! Who agrees?! 

Merry Christmas to all of our friends, family, employees, vendors, customers, and fans!

Flashback Friday

We recently came across a handful of pictures from our FIRST Christmas party in our current building.  Yesterday, we had our annual Christmas pitch-in, and it's amazing to see how we've grown!!! We're so blessed to be thriving all these years later, in this economy.  Thank you to our employees, customers, vendors, and friends for all of your help in getting us here!

Take a look at how much has changed in 11 years!

 Food assortment in 2000!

 Food assortment in 2011!

Breakroom in 2000! (Nearly all employees + Buchanan family)

Breakroom in 2011! (About 1/3 of bo-mar employees)

2000: Lots of familiar faces! Adam, Jim, Pat, Jonathon, Ken, and Rob are all here 11 years later.

 2011: Adam, Jim, and Pat can all be found in this one! :-)

2000

 

 

2011

2011: Check out that line!!

We'll have a few more pictures from this year's party posted next week!

IMIS-Indy

Last week, we spent three days downtown at the Convention Center for the International Motorsports Industry Show (IMIS).  The crowds were great--the best we've ever witnessed--and it was nice to see so many new and familiar faces! How many of you made it out to the show this year?

 It got busy around our booth!  Even Dean 'Guido' Antonelli (Crew Chief for John Force) made it over to talk with Mark and the guys.

 Our Christmas tree was a big hit at the show! We had several people put in requests for trees of their own.

Mark and his good friend, Chip, chat with racing legend Sid Waterman!



Flashback Friday

Looking through our album of potential Flashback Friday pictures, we found this old photo from our display at an American Public Transportation Association trade show, down in New Orleans, from the mid-'90s.  Today, nearly two decades later, we're sitting behind our booth at the International Motorsports Industry Show (IMIS) at the Indiana Convention Center.  What a great way to promote our fabrication business!

 

Flashback Friday

Yesterday we wrote a blog about installing our fourth laser.  It's funny how things work out! As it turns out, bo-mar installed their very first laser cutter on December 1st.......17 years earlier!  Back in December 1994, we were just moving out of the Buchanan's pole barn and into a rented building unit on Franklin Road.  The guys never thought they would fill the 6,000 square foot building, but it didn't take long before they were renting out the units next door as well.  All these years later, we're running out of room in our 38,000 square foot building.  We're very thankful for our continued success over the past 20 years!   

Mark & former employee Mike setting up bo-mar's FIRST laser cutter, which we still use today!

You Can Never Have Too Many....

Today, we added a fourth Mazak laser cutter to our collection!  The guys had been awaiting their new machine's arrival for a few weeks, and now the wait is over.  Of course, we've had to move some things around out in the shop, but we're happy to have our 4000 Watt Mazak (with a shuttle table).  We're hoping to have it running on Monday!