The passing of an American success story:
http://autoweek.com/article/car-life/vic-edelbrock-jr-1936-2017
http://autoweek.com/article/car-life/vic-edelbrock-jr-1936-2017
I wonder how many FGT Forum members bought his stuff. I had a Torker intake on my 69 SS350 & my 73 Pantera.
I'll always remember speaking with him at a P.R.I. show years ago. with an attitude, I asked him why he wasn't making the aluminum FE heads as promised. he put his hand on my shoulder and asked me "are you a business man?" I said yes. he then said "I'm running 3 shifts 24 hours a day making aluminum small block Chevy heads. would you shut that down to make a few hundred sets of FE heads?" we both go a good laugh out of that one. nice guy and very talented.
I agree with what you're saying about the FE head popularity from edlebrock but I will take a very wild guess and say there are 500X the amount of small block Chevy heads vs. FE heads produced by Edelbrock. just sayinJust curious, Was this quite a while ago? I would consider the Edlebrock FE head to be the most common aluminum FE head for years now, even tho it is by far not the best performing.
I agree with what you're saying about the FE head popularity from edlebrock but I will take a very wild guess and say there are 500X the amount of small block Chevy heads vs. FE heads produced by Edelbrock. just sayin
Just 500x? More like 500,000x :lol But I agree with you 100%
I respected Edlebrock parts, and He was a prince of a guy.
But if you are all about Ford, with the exception of a few intake manifolds, there were always better aftermarket parts available from Ford dedicated suppliers that were better in every regard (but price) than the Edlebrock products. Epecially FE heads.
Edlebrock was about Chevy 1st, Mopar 2nd and Ford a very, very distant 3rd.
Jeff,
I thought it was Vic Sr. who was the Flathead guy and as the story is told, Vic Jr. knew, as mentioned above, that the SBC was the future and changed the direction of the company when he took over after his dad's passing.
But I am just repeating what I have read elsewhere.
Yes Vic sr. was behind the flat head equipment. Didn't mean to imply Jr. was involved. He wasn't old enough then!