Carl Blomfeldt was born in Sweden in 1950 and the family moved to Vancouver in 1957. Carl was part of the mid-80s motorcycle scene that included the Greater Vancouver speedway races and tracks. From there he carried on to the United Kingdom and Europe and the Grand Prix and club Speedway circuits and became a tuner for riders who became world champions.

It all began, however, not with motorcycles but with drag racing. Carl, with his life-long friend, Dan Bell and their Scout Master, with only rudimentary tools, built a Ford Prefect with a Chevy V-8 and raced it at the Mission Drags in 1965. The car was called, “bits and pieces.”

Carl and Dan moved on to motorcycles and built his first chopper, a 1948 Triumph 500cc Speed Twin, while still in high school and later got into stock car racing at Langly Raceway.

Carl worked at Allied Parts and Engine Rebuilders in Vancouver learning the automotive machinist trade and then bought into Surrey Automotive and ran the machine shop. He rebuilt everything from forklifts to race car engines as well as his first love, motorcycle engines. Ironicly, he and his partners sold out to Allied where he had started his trade.

Carl and his friends, Bill and Ferg Hawke got some dirt bikes and started scrambling around the Vancouver area.  In the winter, they would put screws in the tires and race on the ice on the lakes in the Kamloops area. The winter months also had indoor flat track races in Munroe, Washington on Friday nights.

Carl’s racing skills turned him into a mechanic pretty quickly. Munroe is where Carl met many of his future riders and many of his heroes from the Cloverdale indoor races he attended years before.

Carl began building flat track bikes and had good young riders on them – Butch Brown, Micky Fay, Brad Hurst and Randy Green who is still with him today. Randy and Carl went to England to try out for a spot on the Hackney Kestrels Speedway team. Randy impressed them and was given a contract for the 1987 season. At a Longtrack World Championship qualifier in Lubek, Germany, Randy was in a serious crash. Upon his return to racing, several months later, he had to take avoiding action to not run into his team mate, Shawn Moran, who had fallen in front of him. The avoiding action included a high side resulting in a broken collar bone. This ended their season. Randy went back home and shortly after, was married and decided the time was right to retire from racing and go to aircraft mechanic school.

Carl stayed in England working with Sam Ermolenko. Again, at a longtrack qualifier, Sam had a horrendous crash and was out for a year. With Sam out of action, Carl started building some engines for other riders. This led to more ½ mile riders seeking the service he provided. Eventually, Carl had 3 employees and was building and servicing engines for 70 riders who had 2 – 5 engines each.

The successes piled up with American, Sam Ermolenko and Buddy Hamill winning the World Championship using Carl’s engines. Swedes, Tony Karlsson and Andreas Johnsson won the Under 21 World Championship. Carl’s engines have been on the podium at World Championship events so many times its hard to imagine.

Carl is back in Surrey, still building speedway engines. His engines are still winning National Championships in the USA.

Carl’s first love, Flat Track, is still a passion. Carl, along with long time friends, Led Szmek of Panther frames and Randy Green have built 3 unique and fast bikes. Carl has a GM speedway engine in one, a Honda NT650 Vtwin and a special Gmaha in the other one. Carl adapted a GM speedway engine top end to the indestructible Yamaha TT bottom end. The result is a fast, reliable engine that will run with and beat the famous Rotax single, in a Panther frame, you will have an unfair advantage.

Carl and Randy are working on their 2025 plans, continuing the dream.