Crazy Horse Racing has the pedal to the floor.

“From now until October, it’s like Christmas morning,” said Judy Green. “You never know what’s going to show up at your dooryard,” said the co-owner of the South Paris-based race car shop.

Oxford Plains Speedway is 8 miles up the road and opening day is a week away.

Nine race cars sit inside the shop. Four of the nine are ready for the track. One car known as “T-Rex” is waiting for sponsor decals. Another resembles a child’s fort made of steel pipes. Six men crowd around another as Quebec driver Jonathan Bouvrette’s late model gets front-end adjustments.

“I’ve been going to the races since I was 4,” said Judy Green. “I don’t know anything else.”

She, her husband, Mitch, and son, Mickey, run the shop. Her mother Pat Lawrence waits on customers who come looking for parts. “It’s definitely a family affair,” said Green. 

Crazy Horse will take the show on the road once the race track opens. The Greens load parts into a trailer that they park in the pit area of the track. “This is a candy store for a racer,” said Green about the parts trailer.

For the Green family, however, it’s camp. “This is our summer home,” she said.