12 Facts About Barney Visser

Barney Visser was born on 1949 and is an entrepreneur and author.

Barney Visser is the co-owner of Furniture Row and Visser Precision.

Barney Visser volunteered in the Vietnam War for 21 months after high school, and he served as a paratrooper for 11 months in the 173rd Airborne Brigade between July 1968 and June 1969.

Barney Visser enrolled at the University of Northern Colorado in the fall of 1969 or 1970, playing one season Division II football.

Barney Visser dropped out during the spring semester after losing his GI scholarship.

Barney Visser began his business manufacturing big poof pillows in the 1970s.

Barney Visser owned eight stores called Pillow Kingdom in 1977, when he decided to start his first waterbed store called Big Sur Waterbeds.

Barney Visser estimates that the company held 85 stores in the mid-1980s.

Barney Visser decided to retire from his businesses, and began racing at Colorado National Speedway as a hobby.

Barney Visser met local modified driver Jerry Robertson, and the two decided to form a NASCAR Busch Series team in 2004.

On September 4,2018, Barney Visser announced that with the loss of major sponsor 5-hour Energy and the increasing cost to maintain a technical alliance with Joe Gibbs Racing, he had no choice but to announce that the team would cease operation at the end of the 2018 season, one year after winning their first championship title.

Barney Visser was the executive producer for the movie Uncle Nino.