If there’s one thing we’ve learned in our 60-plus years in business, it’s that nothing’s more important than knowing our customers and understanding their needs. Our customers are hardcore, hands-on, knuckle-busting racers and hot rodders, and it’s been that way since the very beginning.
It all started back in the mid-’50s with Vaughn Winter Sr. Just out of the Air Force and living in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Vaughn spent much of his spare time drag racing a ’53 Studebaker Gasser. When he couldn’t find anyone to work on his automatic transmissions, he rebuilt them himself—first on his kitchen table, then in a one-car garage. His transmissions were stout and reliable, and before long racers and car dealers all over the region were calling on him. “We were in a lot of winning cars,” he remembers.