Dennis Golobic and his son John established GT American Race Cars in February 1998. Dennis and John bring 25 years of racing experience to the business. Dennis raced super sedans in the 70's and 80's with John, barely old enough, on his pit crew.

The Golobic family's love for racing steered them towards go-karts and it was John's turn to drive. After 4 years in go-karts, it was time to go Sprint car racing. For 10 years John and his family raced sprint cars all over California with Dennis as his crew chief. They raced the NARC tour and competed in the points series at San Jose and Chico.

The Golobic family began to grow and John had 2 sons who had cheered him on at every race. At age 5, John introduced his son Shane to Quarter Midgets at Baylands Quarter Midget track in San Jose. Shane told his dad that he wanted to race too - it was in his blood. John spent 1-year racing Shane in quarter midgets during the days while rushing off in the evenings to race sprint cars.

Soon Shane's desire for racing grew. John and Dennis decided it was time to focus on racing with Shane and away from racing Sprint Cars. Dennis (Shane's Grandpa) always dreamed of building racecars. Dennis and John decided to make that dream come true. What started out as a hobby, building 2 cars for Shane, has turned into a full time business that is a natural stepping stone in the Golobic family's racing path. There are currently over 300 GTs racing in all classes from California to New York.

GT American is a family operated business with Dennis and John specializing in the cars and their performance. Tami Golobic (John's wife) manages the office. Tami works closely with Jill Zieske (John's sister) on promoting the GT kids and advertising the racecars. Jill is also the GT American photographer. Russ Vazquez (one of GT's first customers and close family friend) is the Web master. Isaac Rickets is our fabricator and shop foreman. Isaac, Dennis and John work closely on all design developments. Hung T is our welder. Bill Fosebenner (GT's first customer) is our all around "do it all guy" that we couldn't do without!

GT American·s East Coast representative, Tim Clauson has been a valuable contributor to the success of GT American Race Cars. His son Bryan Clauson, age 10, has been a house car driver since the beginning. Bryan and Tim have worked very well together testing all areas of the GT American Race Car. Tim has been instrumental in educating GT American customers on chassis set up, handling and performance benefits of the GT American Race Car. Bryan currently drives our newest product, a 600 Micro. Bryan has had a very successful year, visit his website at www.bryanclauson.net.

GT American's most Valuable handler on our team is Shane and Dustin's uncle, Mike Zieske. Mike is instrumental in the success of Shane and Dustin and GT American. He works on the cars, is an awesome "tire guy", and helps run the parts trailer at all of the races.