Crane Cams Closes Its Doors After 56 Years In Business
Crane Cams, long time supplier to hot rod builders, shade tree mechanics, and drag strip denizens has decided to call it quits, and we’re all the poorer for it. Crane, which is a name about as synonymous with “American V8 muscle” as Edelbrock, or Mickey Thompson, just couldn’t make the balance sheets line up, and so, another venerable automotive institution goes to the big wrecking yard in the sky.
Long before The Fast And The Furious, long before the import tuner scene … shoot, LONG before Honda even sold cars in America, there was Crane Cams and a whole burgeoning scene of tuning happening in this country.
Crane, unlike many of their contemporaries was not Southern California based, but were actually from The Garden State of New Jersey. They made a whole slew of engine bits, but there were best known, as the name would suggest for their cams, and intake tract goodies. Their roller rockers, for example, delivered glorious lumpy idles.
It was almost part of a hot rod kit, if there was to have been such a thing, back in the 50s. If you were playing around with cars, the stuff you’d bolt on would always be an Edelbrock manifold, a Holly carb and some sort of Crane Cam. And if you had your druthers that cam would be as radical and lumpy and high lift as the available gas and your tranny would let you get away with. If you lived close to an airfield, then so much the better – cause that av-gas sure worked like blazes down at the drag strip.
Related Keywords for this posts:
car insurance quote, budget car, insurance enterprise, avis low cost car.
If you enjoyed this post, please consider to leave a comment or subscribe to the feed and get future articles delivered to your feed reader.
Comments
No comments yet.
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.