Sage was born in Ekalaka, Montana where his family still ranches. His family spent several years in Wyoming starting when Sage was about 16 years old and Buffalo, Wyoming soon became home.

Sage started work as shop laborer at a local auto body shop when he was 18 years old. The owner allowed Sage to grow and learn every part of the business over the next 15 years. During this time, Sage met and married his wife Tammy, the two have a son and a daughter and Sage started dabbling in his other passion of racing cars.

In 1994, Sage built and started racing his 1^st dirt track race car, a WYSSOTA MOD-4.  He worked with his cousin, Dan Speelmon from Williston, ND.

Sage spent the next year getting the class brought to local race tracks and he and his brother Kody spent the winter building about a dozen MOD-4’s so that they could keep the class growing.  Sage and his brother both placed nationally and even had their mother racing a car!

Sage always watched NASCAR and after attending a race in Las Vegas, he mailed off his resume to the corporation in hopes of working for one of the teams.

In March of 2002 his dreams came true when a Busch team, Ed Whitaker Racing, invited him to join their team as paint and body man, semitruck team car driver and overflow gas man on the pit crew.

Sage moved to Bristol, Tennessee while his wife and children stayed in Wyoming to finalize the sale of their video rental store, that is a whole other story, and the sale of their house and 6 months later they were reunited in Mooresville, NC after he was offered a job with DEI, Dale Earnhardt Incorporated.

Sage and his family made their home in Mooresville, North Carolina for the next 8 years. While employed with DEI, Sage was a body man during the week and on the pit crew of Michael Waltrip on the weekends.

He was able to go to every NASCAR race track, be in victory lane at the Daytona 500, victory lane at Talladega and was part of Martin Truex Jr’s team when he won the NASCAR Xfinity Series championship in 2004 and 2005.  Sage was able to mark so many things off his bucket list thanks to being apart of the DEI NASCAR team.

While in North Carolina Sage also had the opportunity to redesign the original prototype into what it is today of the Children’s Dream Racer for Mark “Smitty” Smith.

Children’s Dream Racer (CDR) is a non-profit organization that places Dream Racers in Children’s Hospitals and Cancer Care Centers worldwide to help children get through any difficult treatment that they must endure.

A Dream Racer is a child-sized version of a real NASCAR race car. Currently built by retired NASCAR car builder and founder of CDR, Mark “Smitty” Smith, these cars are made with the same materials used to make real NASCAR race cars.

All Dream Racers include a flat panel TV, CD/DVD player, Play Station®, IV stand, oxygen bottle holder, easy roll coasters with brake and a storage trunk.  Sage’s children were of the perfect size to use as models for better specs and their input was invaluable with how things felt, responded and most importantly, how similar it was to a real race car and the feeling you got being in it.

After being laid off from DEI during the recession of 2008, it gave Sage an opportunity to design and fabricate a custom core support assembly, rear shock mounts and top bars for the tri-5 Chevy.  He also started doing custom paint jobs and body work out of his home shop.

Sage stumbled upon a water transfer printing system that he purchased, practiced and produced some amazing products as well. Sage is always looking and trying new creative outlets to learn new techniques that he carries over into his long-time passion, auto custom and design.

In 2010 the Hendricks family returned home to their roots in Buffalo, Wyoming. Within a couple of years, they were able to finally purchase property and open their own doors for a custom and collision auto body and repair shop, Rad Rides Garage.

Now with over 30 years’ experience, Sage and his family are enjoying being back in Wyoming, creating custom cars with clients and helping the community if they ever experience car troubles. 

Cash was born in Spearfish, South Dakota in 2016 and has settled nicely into Buffalo, Wyoming, becoming a part of the welcoming committee of Rad Rides Garage ever since.

Cash specializes in bunny chasing, naps, and the art of disappearing into the collection of north 40 cars where only his cry can be heard. When asked what his favorite part of working at Rad Rides Garage is, he tips his head which translates to naps, bunnies and most importantly, treats.

Cash loves to be with his family at the shop and at home. We are all happy to have Cash as part of the team.

Having him here ensures no one has a ruff day.