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The "Tale of Two Limefires" wrapped in the 1932 Ford highboy roadster from SoCal SPEED SHOP under the watchful eyes of Pete Chapouris and the 1955 Chevy Likefire from Shine Speedshop under another ...
Few hot rod shops have had as big a role in the history of hot rodding as SO-CAL Speed Shop. Fans of the Pomona, California-based shop will be happy to learn that the famous business was recently ...
The SoCal Speed Shop has chopped, channeled, slammed and sautéed this version to run up to 250 mph at the Bonneville Salt Flats on Aug. 13-19, aiming for 226.835 mph, the G/Blown Fuel Competition ...
GM and the SoCal Speed Shop team up to create a 21st-century version of Alex Xydias' famed Belly Tank. The Ecotec Lakester is an exploration of what a modern belly-tank land speed record car would be.
Of course most have neither the time nor the money to turn the dream into a reality. But now So-Cal Speed Shop has created a package that's reasonably priced, looks super cool, and takes care of ...
the early dry lakes runs of the SoCal Speed Shop as recalled by founder Alex Xydias; Craig Breedlove's remarkable two-way average of 600 mph at Bonneville in 1965; and a 270-mph blast on an ...
In the late Nineties, Chapouris revived the famed So-Cal Speed Shop, and build a series land speed record cars for GM Performance. He didn’t need the mainstream recognition, but got it anyway.