C T Strokers 1951 Socks
Description: C&T Automotive was started in 1951 in Sherman Oaks, California by Don Clark and Clem Tebo, hence the C and the T in the name. While they did a little bit of everything as far as making parts for racing engines, turning out competition grade stroker crankshafts was their bread and butter. Whether you were drag racing, burning up the dirt oval, or swapping paint on the stock car circuit, there was a good stretch there when it was safe to say that the fastest guys were running C&T crankshafts.
Description: C-T Automotive was started in 1951 in Sherman Oaks, California by Don Clark and Clem Tebo (C & T) and followed the old hot rod mantra of “There’s no replacement for displacement.” Their specialty was the manufacturing of stroker kits which increased an engine's displacement by lengthening the stroke of the piston. The journals along the crankshaft are lengthened by a given distance depending on the severity of the stroke enlargement and an increase in the height of the journal makes for double that increase in stroke length. All told, stroked engines can make big power, often without having to machine the block, and C-T Automotive not only knew this, but perfected the formula to get a reliable, high-horsepower stroker that was streetable.
