Here’s How Much Dan Short From FantomWorks Is Worth | HotCars

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Despite being more low-key than celebrity car hosts like the passionate Richard Rawlings or the complex Chip Foose, Dan Short of FantomWorks has done quite well for himself. The owner of DRS Automotive Fantomworks, the auto repair place out of Norfolk, Virginia, is worth a cool $3.5 million.

Now, of course all that money hasn’t come strictly from his autobody shop. While he does excellent work, he also had a fantastic show on Velocity TV, eponymously named after his shop, that went on for eight seasons from 2013 to 2019. Many fans proclaimed that it was a cool, down to earth show that offered a lot of stuff that other car shows didn’t.

And the cool thing about Dan Short is that he’s a pretty fascinating figure. While mostly known for his car stuff, he’s had a life full of adventures and pursuits that we’ll touch on. At the end of the day, though, the man is a car guy first, and he fell in love with cars ever since spotting a 1967 Camaro in his youth.

He didn’t have the money to restore his used Camaro as a teenager, so he taught himself how to do it, and the rest is history…

One claim to fame that many other notorious and well-liked car show hosts can’t make is that they served their country. Well, Dan Short did—in spectacular fashion, no less. At the young age of 17, he enlisted in the Army in 1979. He was a Green Beret for the US Army Special Forces and was deployed a lot.

But while he served on the medicine and weapons teams, he was always thinking about cars. As he told Earn the Necklace, “The guys would always give me a hard time because I would show up to work with grease under my fingernails, and people would look at me like, ‘You can’t do medicine with grease on your hands.’”

But all that time in the Army gave Dan Short a remarkable work ethic that he carried on later into his life. After all, he spent nearly a quarter of a century in the armed forces—eight years apiece as a Staff Sergeant in Special Operations, an Apache Helicopter pilot/test pilot, and a Major/Program Manager in Special Operations.

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Dan took classes in body paint and hung out in repair shops as a youth, while learning the trade and lending a helping hand. He bought his first car at 19, that ’67 Chevy Camaro he always wanted.

“As I went along in my military career, I realized I wanted to do something different, and I started having an inkling of creating my own company,” he told Pilot Online. “It’s one thing to build cars as a hobby. It’s another thing to run 75 cars at a time through a business.”

In 2006, he founded DRS

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By: Cory Barclay
Title: Here’s How Much Dan Short From FantomWorks Is Worth | HotCars
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Published Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 15:45:43 GMT

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