Merchants of Speed: The Men Who Built America's Performance Industry

This book is for budding automotive historians everywhere and describes how the all majority of the big names in performance parts came into existance. This is a very big book packed with pictures from the various companies founders private collections showing the small garages and workshops where it all began.

Through the book many of the founders tell their tales of the relentless quest to go faster and the lengths they went to to achive this, sometimes leading to the inevitable accident.

The following big-names are listed in the book without whom the hot-rodding world maybe a very different (and slower) place:

• Ansen
• Braje
• Crane
• Edelbrock
• Engle
• Evans
• Herbert
• Hilborn
• Howards
• Iskenderian
• McGurk
• Navarro
• Offenhauser
• Potvin
• Scott
• Sharp
• Spalding
• Tattersfield-Baron
• Thickstun
• Wayne
• Weber
• Weiand
• Wilson

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About The Author
A longtime hot rod and drag racing enthusiast, Paul D. Smith split his time between Southern California and his native Canada while writing and researching this, his first book. Today he resides in Orillia, Ontario.