Automobiles came early to Bob, who started racing at age 8: His father, Bill, designed and engineered aerospace parts, raced boats and built the engines for them and founded Ward Machine Co. Bob’s grandfather, Harvey, designed and built championship dirt cars and Indianapolis race cars, even winning the 1935 Indianapolis 500.

While manual metal spinning has its own fairly long history, Bob joined the movement to CNC metal spinning early. Improving on the “feel” of the manual spinner, Bob developed new designs and proprietary manufacturing methods with the precision controls and repeatability of CNC equipment and the high forces of modern hydraulics applied to spinning lathes.

ARS now sets the standard for 3-piece rims in the U.S.A. and is the largest global company solely dedicated to rim spinning.

Its 3-piece and other configurations offer virtually infinite flexibility in diameters, rim widths, and wheel offsets to accommodate vehicle applications that other manufacturing methods cannot achieve either physically or financially.