Machinist Tapestries
Description: Based in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, Oshawa Cylinder Head was a machine shop that focused on the manufacturing and machining of cylinder heads. In addition to walk in projects, they maintained contracts with several manufacturers to provide them with custom spec cylinder heads, supplying them to their Ontario engine plants for final assembly.
Description: Legendary northern California fuel racer Ted Gotelli opened Gotelli Speed Shop at 321 El Camino Real in the city of South San Francisco in May 1962. Selling hardcore speed equipment in the front and building racing engines out back, Gotelli Speed Shop outlived most of its contemporaries across the country. For 57 years, Gotelli's was the go-to place for northern California drag racers and speed freaks looking to shave their elapsed times and get a little more punch off the line, but in 2019 it finally came to an end with the shop lost their lease.
Description: Frank McGurk was a race car driver in the '30s and '40s, but had so many innovative ideas for pulling more performance out of engines, he became an engineer to implement them himself. While his work started earlier after his service during WWII, he formally founded McGurk Engineering in 1950 in Gardena, California. Designing everything from cams and manifolds to heads and rocker assemblies, McGurk was a talented engineer who specialized in small block V8 and inline 6 bow tie mills, the latter of which were extremely popular with sprint car racers, while the V8s were the hot ticket for drag racers and hot rodders. McGurk worked until 1969 when he sold the company, but remained active in the racing community until is death in 1982.
