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pishta said

Pos-A-Traction...Holy ****, I used to have a pair on the back of my 65 in '85! Hard as rocks, I though they were plastic! Were they SuperShops tires? They were an honest 10" across and I could still roast them with my 340 and a 3.55 SG rear. Our one in Costa Mesa did tires in the back. The smell of that place was 100% tire rubber and they really packed the floor with stacks of tires, it was like a Walmart weaving in and out of those towers of tires! Thy had a whole wall of intakes and another large ad of Mallory ignition products as well as Erson Camshafts. I remember it well.......Sold 'Desktop Dyno' for DOS 3.0 for $89.99...?

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You must have been in there long after I was gone. I ran that store for a couple years in the 80's. It wasn't really ever a speed shop to me and I worked there. Most employees really never had much of a hot rod deal near the end of my tenure. It became the chrome crew that wanted tires/wheels and bolt ons. If I needed something that we sold for my race cars and we had it I'd buy with our discount. Roller cam for anything.... good luck. Had that argument with top level management a ton of times when I worked the east Dallas area. Lots of times I was calling friends at other places for cams (Crane/Comp) and other more race oriented stuff the company never had.

I can say this about that company/management/place. I learned how to NOT treat future employees in my deals. Greg K, the guy that came in to run the company after Harry... fricken idiot!!! Someone must have bought the name again trying to revive past glory.