He joined the United States Army Air Forces during World War II by lying about his age because he was too young and by memorizing the vision charts because he was color blind.
In the late 1950s he became chief engineer to Lance Reventlow, building the Scarab sports racing car on Princeton Drive in what is now Marina del Rey, California.
Remington moved to North Carolina in 1968 to run the Talladega Grand National stock car program at Holman and Moody.
He moved back to California and worked at Dan Gurney's All American Racers (AAR).
In 2012 he built the oil and water coolers and engineered the suspension on the DeltaWing race car.