Renowned chassis builder Attebury began his car building at the age of 5, when his mother found him taking body panels off the family tractor. His excuse was he was making the tractor lighter so it would go faster. He built and raced his first car at the age of 20. He and his brother campaigned a front engine Top Gas dragster for two years. In 1973 he won the Bakersfield WCS, the WCS finals at Sears Point, and was named the Most Improved Pro Driver in Division 7. At 24, Attebury had his first paying customer, Frank Bradley. Bradley’s 1976 NHRA Winternationals Top Fuel win kickstarted Attebury’s car building and the demand for an Attebury car was on. All of a sudden, he was building cars for the likes of Gary Beck, James Warren, Roger Coburn, and Dennis Baca. Attebury cars were known for being notoriously safe and he was known for his great attention to detail when building cars. This attention to detail caught the attention of Shirley Muldowney who, in 1976, bought her first Attebury car. She went on to win her first NHRA world championship in that car. Attebury quit car building for a short time and began working for the U.S. Department of Energy but returned to car building and opened Attebury’s Street Rods in Morgan Hill, Calif. He built a long line of hot rods that were featured in magazines and on several magazine covers. In the early 2000s, Attebury was bitten by the driving bug again. He built and raced an A/Fuel dragster on the Nostalgia circuit. He raced his last car, a Gas Modified roadster in Bonneville in 2012.