The Dutchman story began over 40 years ago when dad Keith did his first rear end and driveline conversion for his Olds powered ’50 Chevy. Many other car projects lead to a circle track hobby, and while racing on a short 1/8 mile track, Keith realized that to go faster, he would need stronger components to replace those which couldn’t stand the pressure of short track racing.

Breaking parts fostered the development of a product line for circle trackers, such as billet steel hubs, a 9” Ford floater kit (which had a bolt on spindle), HD-High RPM drivelines, and more.

The manufacturing of the specialized race car components took place evenings and weekends and caused the “part time” home business to grow from a 2 car garage to a full time business in a 3000 square foot commercial building in the late 70’s. The company sold products to local Portland customers and started gaining popularity among the local industrial / commercial businesses in the area. The company then incorporated in 1977 and “Dutchman Tool & Machine Works” was formed. Keith retired from circle track racing and devoted much of his time to keeping up with the still growing machine and manufacturing job shop. Even though the industrial / commercial jobs grew to 80% of the sales, the business still did axle shortening, narrowed rear housings, bolt pattern changes, and HD drivelines-all in house.

11 years later the business grew into needing more space and moved into a 6500 square foot building-still doing the same kind of work, 80% industrial and 20% hot rods/race cars. Enter son Todd, who by this time, had worked in the shop for around 10 years, learning and mastering every aspect of the axle, housing, and machine shop business. Todd’s fresh vision and enthusiasm made 1990 a pivotal year for the Dutchman company, and with the growing interest in performance street cars, race cars, & offroad vehicles, the need for a “stonger than stock” strip legal-street safe alloy axle came to light and the quest for Dutchman’s own line of new forged alloy axles began. By 1992, Keith and Todd had tooled up the shop, secured a diverse line of axle “blanks”, and launched Dutchman Motorsports, Inc., the company you know today that brings you the line of custom rear ends, alloy axle shafts, & related driveline components available on a national basis. Fast forward to today, Dutchman currently operates in 13,000 square feet and has 12 employees keeping busy year round. Their success can be summed up in one simply statement; they’ve never had the goal to be the biggest, just the best!