▴ Mooresville, North Carolina — Built in NASCAR Country
The People
Behind the Power
Three decades of grease, garage time, and race wins shaped raceenginesforsale.com. We're not a warehouse — we're racers who built a business because we got tired of buying engines blind.
Where It Started
Born on the
Backroads of
North Carolina
▼ Mooresville, NC — The Engine Room of American Racing
Within 50 miles of our shop sit more NASCAR Cup teams, engine builders, and fabricators than anywhere else on the planet. That's not marketing — that's our zip code.
RaceEnginesForSale.com started in a two-bay garage off Highway 150 in Mooresville, North Carolina — the same stretch of road where half of Cup racing is built, torn down, and rebuilt every week. Our founders, Dale Harmon and Rick Caudle, grew up racing dirt modified at Concord Speedway and Tri-County Motor Speedway before turning that track knowledge into a business.
For years, the two ran a small engine shop serving local circle track teams. They kept hearing the same complaint from racers across the country: finding a quality used race engine — one with real documentation — was a shot in the dark. You either knew somebody, or you rolled the dice.
In 2009, Dale and Rick launched raceenginesforsale.com with a simple premise: list only what you'd put in your own car, document everything, and answer the phone. That approach, backed by a lifetime of Charlotte-area racing relationships, turned a regional engine shop into a nationally recognized source for competition powerplants.
Our Journey
First Engine Built
Dale Harmon rebuilds his first race engine — a 355 small block Chevy — in his father's garage in Kannapolis, NC, age 19. Wins his class at Concord Speedway the following month.
Harmon & Caudle Opens
Dale and Rick Caudle open a two-bay engine shop in Mooresville, NC, supplying circle track teams throughout the Carolinas. Word spreads fast in NASCAR country.
Drag Racing Expansion
Growing demand from the Charlotte drag strip community leads to a full drag racing division. The shop doubles in size, adding a dynamometer and machining capabilities.
raceenginesforsale.com Launches
Tired of watching racers get burned on mystery engines, Dale and Rick take the shop national. The website goes live — the first listing sells in 72 hours.
Shipping Nationwide
From Mooresville to every state in the country, we're now one of the most trusted names in race engine sales — still run by the same people, still answering the same phone.
The Team
Three People.
One Standard.
We keep the team small on purpose. Every engine that leaves our facility has been reviewed by someone who's actually raced. No interns. No drop shippers. Just people who know what it costs to blow an engine on race day.
Dale grew up 20 minutes from Charlotte Motor Speedway and spent his twenties racing dirt modified throughout the Carolinas. After winning back-to-back track championships at Tri-County in 2001 and 2002, he shifted focus to building engines for other teams. He's the one who sizes up every engine that comes through the door — if Dale won't sign off on it, it doesn't get listed.
Rick is the reason the business actually runs. A former crew chief for a regional NASCAR Late Model team based out of Concord, he knows logistics, class rules, and how to get a crated engine across six states without incident. He handles sourcing, consignment relationships with race teams, and shipping — and he's the one who put in place the documentation standards that separate us from every other listing site.
Dale's daughter and a racer in her own right — Jamie ran the Women's SCCA Solo circuit out of Charlotte before joining the business full time. She handles customer inquiries, engine matching consultations, and has become the go-to contact for class-rule questions. If you call or email us, you're talking to Jamie first, and she actually knows what a Ford 2.3 Lima sounds like at 7,200 rpm.
What We Stand For
How We Do
Business
Honest Condition Reports
We describe engines the way we'd want someone to describe them to us. If something needs attention, we say so in the listing — not in a phone call after you've already paid.
No Mystery Engines
Every engine we list has a documented history. No "running when pulled" with zero supporting information. If we can't document it, we don't sell it.
Race-Proven Standards
Our inspection process was built from race day experience, not a checklist from the internet. We know what fails, we know where to look, and we know what matters at speed.
Small Business, Serious Inventory
We stay lean so we stay honest. We don't list engines we haven't seen, and we don't take on more than we can properly manage. Every listing gets our full attention.