Dick Moroso's speed shop in Greenwich Conn

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=27241863295499108&set=gm.4702574770019764&idorvanity=2695731877370740

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2695731877370740/

as the Statler Brothers sang in 1972, "do you remember those?"

a simple sheet of speed parts, the good stuff, and the prices

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=591134566872726&set=a.185776640741856

a real 70s speed shop, still in business, where this guy walked in and bought a pair of Thrush glass packs! This place is still full of cool aftermarket parts, and doesn't have any effing LED light arrays! No Honda fart can mufflers!

Parks Auto Parts, Charlestown South Carolina

 https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10164191726493508&set=pcb.1187217715810645

I never noticed until I got an email from Bruce... but some speedshops had their name on a LOT of famous funnycars and drag super stockers (thanks Bruce!)

Steve was 17 when he and his brother opened a small shop in the basement of their folks home, a small Pennsylvania cattle ranch. Street racing was big at the time; real American Graffiti-type stuff.

His first dragstrip race car was a 54 shop truck running a 283-inch Chevy, it was also their daily driver parts truck. It proceeded to set the D/Gas record in Vineland, N.J., Langhorne Speedway, York, and Lancaster, where Bill Jenkins was the tech inspector. 

Other Kanuika cars included his C/Gas Willys pickup with a 301-inch injected mouse motor. It set the record at 10.80, 127mph and even made the cover of Drag Times.

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/steve-kanuika-a-east-coast-legend-moves-on.421006/

Bell Auto parts in the 50s, a place I'd like to hang out, or use a time machine to get to

 

https://kustomrama.com/wiki/Bell_Auto_Parts

Goodies Speed Shop

https://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?5156036-Vintage-photos-Awesome!/page433

Stiffspeed never disappoints, there is always cool cars to see, mostly race cars

https://www.facebook.com/groups/stiffspeed/?multi_permalinks=1311017275711552&notif_id=1513279467951820&notif_t=group_highlights

Ansen Speed Shop

https://www.facebook.com/groups/stiffspeed/permalink/1300042900142323/

This must have been one fun place to hang around

https://www.facebook.com/groups/stiffspeed/permalink/1152340628245885/

Ross left the rat race, and opened a speed shop, named it for his grand dad. Damn, I respect that.

see the video, 6 minutes long, on Hot Rod's website, but beware. The effing volume is instantly MAXXED OUT for the opening commercial for Optima batteries... and then, of course, it's half that loud for the video when you;ll probably need to turn it back up. I hate that overloud commercial bullshit. Radio, tv, and now the damn internet? There ain't no way to escape the assholes that program.

The video is in some offbrand video player that no one else uses, and has no embed or share ability, so - in order to get traffic to their site, they aren't making it available anywhere else, so you have to go there to view it, but this is a cool story

http://www.hotrod.com/articles/car-craft-undiscovered-builder-ross-nichols

through out the video, the guitar and louder and twangy, so you might want to adjust the volume constantly

cool business sign

http://www.racingfromthepast.com/images/nancesign.jpg


Born in Boone Oklahoma on May 12, 1923, LaVern Nance was the oldest of eight children. The slow talking, ambitious young man went to work at age 15 when his father died. He drifted around the Southwest working as a laborer, spending 14 hours a day in the hot fields picking cotton by hand.

Shortly after marriage, Nance put down his cotton picking bag and hitch hiked to Wichita, Kansas. The Aviation Capital of the World, thinking anything would be better than the back breaking days in the searing Oklahoma cotton fields.

 The Second World War was on and he managed to sign on with Beech Aircraft building aircraft parts for the defense effort. Soon he was appointed foreman over forty women riveters. His firm yet easy going manner eventually landed him a lucrative plant superintendent job over seeing 800 workers.

 Financially successful, yet restless for some new challenge, Nance quit his job and launched his own small business (Nance Machine and Paint Company) with partner Marvell in 1950, fabricating glider seats and painting parts.

http://www.racingfromthepast.com/lavernnancestory.html
http://www.racingfromthepast.com/lavernnancehomeindex16.html

some of the more interesting and race focused ads the high schoolers sold

All from http://annualmobiles.blogspot.com/

A rare advertisment for a speedshop named Goodies. They got Linda, and I'm not sure, is that Kalitta?

I don't recognize most racers by what they look like.

Found on http://annualmobiles.blogspot.com/

New York and New Jersey speed shops in 1971 (thanks to J!)

Bad Larry has a speedshop, and knows how to throw a christmas party!

full gallery at http://ponyfotos.blogspot.com/2012/12/christmasparty-bei-bad-larrys-speedshop.html