John Cooleys background explains why his cars are the way they are. He started at Jimco racing. He was building race cars, racing his own car, he also was taught shocks by John Marking, who also started at Jimco before going to Fox and making Fox what it is today. Cooley was tuning shocks for Jimco after Marking. Then when Jack from Jacks Aluminum who worked in house at Jimco building all the Jimco bodies was retiring. John decided to take over for Jack and started Alumicraft, thus the name. Cooley was to take over and build aluminum race car body’s for Jimco & other side projects.. Then John built himself a play sand buggy built with racing engineering, and race car customers liked it and wanted it. So he started building them along with doing aluminum work. Then came the Luxury class 1 buggy style prerunners. Craig Stewart was doing the Luxury prerun trucks, and Cooley started doing the buggys. Originally he had a hand shake agreement to not build race cars as that was Jimco’s territory. John built his own class 10 race car and over time customers wanted John’s designs and so he went race car building too.
Bottom line is John Cooley understands the whole design & suspension concept, right down to shocks & shock design. His first single shock internal bypass Fox shocks were amazing and that was John’s tune built in the Fox shock. When John ordered a shock it was the Alumicraft ports and valving.
I saved this quick write up off this site years ago
