“I opened [it] with Shadow’s Don Nichols in 2014, looking to help him prep and parcel off all of his Can-Am and Formula 1 cars and parts,” Slade explains. “When Don passed away [in 2017], he left me everything—all the trophies, all the photographs, driver’s helmets, all that. I have all that in a section of the shop—it’s all really nicely displayed.”



The walls, meanwhile, boast a massive art collection by noted artist and auto racing enthusiast Thierry Thompson. Slade, a big admirer of Thompson’s work, had rebuilt the latter’s Swift DB-1 Formula Ford.

And then there’s the scale model cars collection.

“A lot of the cars that I’ve worked on, I’ve been fortunate enough to find actual models of them,” he says. “So if I worked on an IndyCar, whatever, I like to try and find a 1:18 or 1:12 scale model.

“I’ve worked on a lot of cars, especially IndyCars, so I have quite a big collection now…”