Claudio: From Soap Box Cars to Porsche

Claudio Kaempf’s interest in cars started early on. He liked building soap box cars and racing them through the streets of his home town. After graduating from high school, he went through a 4 year apprenticeship program in Zurich Switzerland as an automotive mechanic. At the same time he went to college in Zurich and worked on the weekends on the Baltisser race team, winning the Swiss National Sports Car Championship on 2 occasions.

After moving to the Kalamazoo area in 1979, he began working at a VW Audi Porsche dealership. In 1987 Claudio opened Foreign Car Services and began servicing the Kalamazoo area’s Porsche, VW, and Audi owner’s vehicles as well as other marques.

In the early nineties the Porsche club of America started its racing program and naturally Claudio had to join. Campaigning a 1970 911 he has raced successfully in many races, setting track records and winning many of them.

Claudio has earned the respect of his pears through his racing efforts and also gained many happy customers. His hobbies are racing on the weekends and if there is time left over maybe a little golf and boating.