The Family Vroom
The Coughlin brothers are proof positive that you can mix business and pleasure.
Updated: March 5, 2003, 1:17 PM ET
By By Amy Rosewater
On weekends, he's an NHRA drag racing champion, behind the wheel of a 1,300-horsepower Pro Stock Chevy burning the quarter-mile at 200 mph. On weekdays, Jeg Coughlin Jr. is a corporate VP, behind an oak desk at his family's $200M business.
Coughlin, 32, and his three older brothersJohn, Mike and Troymake up the NHRA's largest family of drivers. And they all pull double duty as vice presidents of Jeg's Mail Order, a company started 43 years ago in their father's Columbus, Ohio garage.
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