New Concept Design was formed in 1991 by Ed Shampine, a veteran go-kart racer and multi-time World Karting Association national champion.

After years of winning dirt-oval kart races across New York State, Shampine moved to enduro-style road racing in the early 1990s, racing at historic road courses such as Daytona, Pocono and West Virginia's Summit Point Raceway. 

It didn’t take long for Shampine to realize the importance of aerodynamics in road race karting. Working out of his Syracuse, N.Y.-area shop, Shampine began designing fiberglass bodywork and seats for his sprint-enduro kart.

At a time when sprint-enduro racers sat upright in their chassis similar to traditional sprint karts, Shampine debuted a laydown sprint-style seat that considerably lowered his position in the kart, thus decreasing drag and greatly improving the kart’s aerodynamics.

Shampine soon became a regular winner against some of the best competition road race karting had ever seen.

While filling his racing resume with wins at tracks throughout the eastern half of the country, Shampine began building a business. Endless hours of mental and physical labor resulted in top-shelf designs for nosecones, sidepanels, seats and other accessories for sprint- and  laydown-enduro karts.

New Concept Design had been formed, and soon karters from across the United States were calling Shampine’s Upstate New York shop to order the finest fiberglass parts for their go-karts.

By the late ’90s, over fifty percent of road race karts in the eastern half of the country were running  NCD bodywork. Shampine, his son Keith and numerous NCD customers accomplished multiple national feature wins at aero-sensitive speedway tracks like Daytona and Charlotte, as well as staple road racing venues such as Mid-Ohio, VIRginia Int’l Raceway and Carolina Motorsports Park.

Supermodifieds
While busy making fiberglass karting products, Shampine often took on special fiberglass-related projects for local New York customers and friends.

One of those projects was for supermodified racer Pat Abold, who approached Shampine in the mid ’90s about making a fiberglass nose and other parts for his super. After completion of the parts and Abold fielding the fiberglass on his sleek supermodified, word of mouth began to spread throughout the Oswego Speedway supermodified community, and soon several supers were running the nose  originally made for Abold’s No. 05.

As years progressed, more super teams moved away from the full sheet metal “shovel-style” front ends and toward the Indy car-style nosecone and wings. Shampine began making parts for racers like Joey Hawksby, Clyde Booth and others. With the rise of Hawksby’s popular line of Hawk Jr Chassis in the mid-2000s, NCD’s production of supermodified nosecones and radiator shrouds increased substantially as Hawksby continued to sell chassis.

Today, NCD has several nose designs and various widths for supermodifieds, including Hawk Jr cars, other new-style Oswego chassis and wider Graves-style supers.

In 2011, twenty-five of the thirty-nine (64%) non-wing supers to record points at Oswego ran a nose made by Shampine, including eight of the top-ten point finishers.

Today’s New Concept Design
Shampine continues to operate New Concept Design along with his successful bathtub refinishing business.

With the influx of 125cc shifter and TaG karts in road racing, which run plastic CIK-style bodywork, the market clearly has shrunk for NCD karting fiberglass.

However, karting sales are still consistent and even strong at certain times of the year, especially when big races are on the horizon. NCD fiberglass – for karts and supermodifieds – is still produced on a near daily basis at Shampine’s shop, and parts continue to be shipped to destinations across the country on a weekly basis.

This past year's progress included the creation of a new and improved enduro seat, a new supermodified nose and this new website!