Author: Tom Linton

  By Will Webber wwebber@sfnewmexican.com – May 29, 2021 Updated May 30, 2021   Gazing through the floor-to-ceiling glass walls of Albuquerque’s Porsche dealership, 84-year-old Brian Redman went zero to 60 down memory lane when asked about the cars that made him one of the 20th century’s top international racing legends. “Used to be a time,” he said, using a wrinkled index finger to brush aside a wayward strand of snow-white…

Santa Fe New Mexican By Teya Vitu – Aug 26, 2019 How much collector-car storage is too much for Santa Fe? Tom Linton, an owner of six Porsche 911 cars, has asked that of himself since he started building car storage units in 1998 near the Santa Fe Regional Airport. “I always think, what is the saturation point for car storage in Santa Fe?” Linton said. “Every time I build…

By Andy Stiny / Journal Staff Writer Published: Friday, December 16th, 2016 at 12:02am Updated: Thursday, December 15th, 2016 at 8:51pm SANTA FE – About 20 years ago, Tom Linton had a problem – four cars and a garage too small. “I had a two-car garage and it was always a scramble, where I am going to put this, the winter’s here.

The built landscape of an area off of Airport Road suggests a tectonic shift with Sarcon Construction Corporation’s completion of the Mallard Motorplex. In 1998, with the first of his auto storage facilities, Motorplex owner Tom Linton drove the shift, transforming it from a land of sand and sagebrush to an area of modern industrial design.

Santa Fe New Mexican – By Paul Weideman The commercial-market scene during the past year has been an improvement over the previous October-to-October period. Santa Fe lost some beloved businesses, but not at such a drastic level. A year ago we reported the closures of Tony’s Rental Sales & Service, Leishman’s of Santa Fe …

Santa Fe New Mexican – His grandfather was a construction contractor and his father worked on Wall Street, so ask Tom Linton where he gets the bug for vintage cars — especially Porsches — and he just shrugs. At age 9, Linton was already making model cars and tinkering in the family garage.