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Hurst produced aftermarket replacement manual transmission shifters and other automobile performance enhancing parts.. Hurst was also an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) for automakers and provided services or components for numerous muscle car models by American Motors (AMC), Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors.
Palamides's work with engineer Tom Griffith, operating from Jim Ellison's small machine shop in San Francisco, evolved into the aftermarket wheel company. In 1956, they formed American Racing Equipment. [4] American Racing Equipment was the first in the industry to introduce a line of wheels with a Teflon coating.
Greg Weld [1] (March 4, 1944 – August 4, 2008) was an American racecar driver and later a businessman who founded an automotive aftermarkets parts manufacturer that carries his name. Weld won the 1963 Knoxville Nationals , the premiere event in sprint car racing . [ 2 ]
Jeg's remained family owned and operated until 2022 when a majority stake of the company was purchased by Greenbriar Equity Group. Over 60 years, JEGS has expanded to include a 250,000-square-foot (23,000 m 2) warehouse, two mail order locations, retail store & Team JEGS Race Team. The company has approximately 350 employees.
Irwindale Speedway & Dragstrip, which hosted NASCAR races, demolition derbies and drag races, is set to close Dec. 21.
Speedway Motorsports, LLC is an American company that owns and manages auto racing facilities that host races sanctioned by NASCAR, NHRA, World of Outlaws and other racing series. The company was founded by Bruton Smith and has its headquarters at Charlotte Motor Speedway , in Concord, North Carolina , just north of Charlotte.
On 1 June 1979, an AMC Spirit driven by Dennis Shaw and Don Whittington won the 6-Hour Champion Spark Plug Challenge at the Daytona International Speedway covering 151 laps and a distance of 933.162 km (579.840 mi) averaging 155.101 km/h (96.375 mph). [52] AMC Spirits also finished in 5, 6, 11, 29, 37, and 42 places out of a total 62 starting cars.
This 108 cu in (1,767 cc; 1.8 L) unit is an AMC designed air-cooled V4 engine that was only used in AMC's lightweight aluminium-bodied M422 'Mighty Mite' military vehicle, built from January 1960 to January 1963 as an air transportable (by the helicopters of the time) Jeep for the U.S. Marine Corps. [1]