Contractor, start your engine! HVAC business owner by day, Kaminsky aiming to make Indy 500 field this year.(contractor profile)(heating, ventilating, and air conditioning)(Bob Kaminsky)

Air Conditioning, Heating & Refrigeration News, March, 2008 by Skaer, Mark

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HOMER GLEN, Ill. -- One Hour Heating and Air Conditioning? Bob Kaminsky can do far better than that.

The owner of Air Tigers Inc. could be at a customer's house in seconds flat. Only problem is he is not allowed to go such speed on the highway or side streets. Going over 100 miles per hour is only allowed on race tracks, where the HVACR contractor is getting quite a name for himself.

Kaminsky is looking to qualify for this year's Indy 500, considered the greatest spectacle in racing. By day, the soft -spoken owner may be operating a residential HVACR business with his wife Sheila in the south suburbs of Chicago, but everywhere in between Kaminsky is attending to his second job (and love): professional racing.

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