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Nov 24

Lost Speed Shops: Bell, Chapel, Orr

post Category: European, Events, In press, Other countries, United States post Comments (0) postNovember 24, 2009

In “The American Hot Rod,” Dean Batchelor wrote of early speed shops: “First there was George Wight, then Lee Chapel, then Karl Orr, and then everyone got into the act.” It’s a reminder that speed shops had been around in Los Angeles for decades before the postwar hot rod boom and an introduction to a chapter on the churches of the hot rod religion.

Karl and Veda Orr’s speed shop formed a large part of their role in hot rodding history, as I recently found out while …

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