Look Who's Back!
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That's great news.
Unconventional
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The Super Shops/San Bernardino Racing was one of our getaways as teens in the mighty Mojave Desert. 
Usually made a stop at one of many along the routes to Irwindale or Orange County Raceways.
Usually made a stop at one of many along the routes to Irwindale or Orange County Raceways.
harrisonm
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Never heard of them. Is it a west coast thing? I miss the speed shops we used to have before the internet. There used to be one near me called Don's speed shop. Don knew everything about performance and racing. It was always great to go to his store.
I guess they started on the west coast. We had one in Macon for a while so they were country wide at one point.
512Stroker
We are all here because we are not all there.
Had them in MO in the 80's and 90's
pishta
I know I'm right....
Home of the $99 Performer intake for the SBC. Also sold butt loads of Comp TA tires. Had the balls to sell me a returned Predator carburetor with a cracked base around one of the bolt ears. Said I could not return it because it was a special order......Erson cams were stocked.
Unconventional
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San Bernardino and Riverside stores had facilities to install the hot rod parts you bought also, others probably did also.
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Not Eddie Hill's finest hour but it did get he and the Super Shops quite a bit of press.
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San Bernardino and Riverside stores had facilities to install the hot rod parts you bought also, others probably did also.
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Not Eddie Hill's finest hour but it did get he and the Super Shops quite a bit of press.
Yes, the store in Macon installed tires, did alignments and other light mechanical work. It was nice......but they put it in the WORST possible neighborhood. That's not hard to do in Macon anymore.
pishta
I know I'm right....
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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They looked totally badass, though.
Unconventional
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They would smoke through the first 3 gears on my Ranchero. 
It snowed one afternoon and evening in Barstow. Couldn't get in or out of town without chains. I had to get home from work on those Pos A Tractions at 11pm that night 
Whata ride!
dibbons
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There was a store in Salinas, California (Goodies and American were there first).
Mr. Sinister
Devastation Manager
They also had one in Michigan years ago but we already had Ramchargers, Gratiot Auto Supply, and Custom Speed Enterprise (CSE) sadly all are gone now great places for parts and help. We still have a place called Richards and they are smaller but they do installation and sell aftermarket parts and racing fuel. Last of a dying market.
Mr. Sinister
Devastation Manager
1969reddart
or is it Copper...
The Super Shops in Vallejo was always a regular stop if not just to go in and drool over speed parts for awhile...
Got my first set of Centerlines and BFG's from them in the mid 80's
Got my first set of Centerlines and BFG's from them in the mid 80's
where in Vallejo? I hit Bailey Bro’s when we rolled back in the day. There was also a small shop at the east end of Springs Rd. Also Grand Auto, Rac Tachs, headers etc.
1969reddart
or is it Copper...
Corner of Sonoma Blvd and Maine St. Looks like it's a motorcycle shop now.
Forgot about Bailey Brothers. That's another good one.
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MarPar
Young Troubadour
We had em here in IL in the 80's and 90's
Got my first set of BFG T/A''s there.
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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.
pishta
I know I'm right....
Yeah, about 84-86....The Costa Mesa store? That would be a small world because I remember the tool who handed me that cracked Predator....I took it out and said Uh, no thanks, this thing is used! He told me it wasnt, (evidence of a nut snugged down on the ears) it was just a casting crack and it was still good, non returnable and that its "not fair to blame us for a casting crack, NOT FAIR!" I was looking around for the candid camera as this was just silly and the guy was visibly shaken that I didn't want to accept it. Hope it wasn't you!
The thing I didn't like about them.....at least the Macon store was that they always tried to push the bullshit entry level Erson cams at you.....the LOW lift ones and the tried to sell you the 1.6 rockers. Lots of guys fell for it......especially the Chevy idiots. They didn't realize all they had to do was choose another line of Erson cams and they could get the lift the 1.6s were giving their low lift junk.
All that said, low lift cams do have a place, but these guys were just trying to sell more stuff and not really trying to help customers.
All that said, low lift cams do have a place, but these guys were just trying to sell more stuff and not really trying to help customers.
When did it open in Vallejo? I swear I had to drive to Sacramento to find one in 81-83. Who knows, I got CRS......
j par
Well-hung Member
Bowling Green Kentucky? Ain't that we're Holley's at ??..
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