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Limiting to 5 is tough--Don Francisco, Bobby Meeks, Al Sharp, Barney Navarro were certainly deserving
Read it when it came out a couple of months ago. Kauai guy has a point, however the five mentioned were in business. Don Francisco worked for Petersen and Meeks worked for Edlebrock. Sharp and Navarro both were in business, but not the same scale as the aforementioned.
I'll add a couple just for fun... Tom Beatty Chuck Potvin / Bill Jenks Ron Main Ron Ceridono... hell, he wrote the book!
Almost like picking your favorite guitarist or drummer. Pre- war or Post war..... At least the important names aren't forgotten, like Don Francisco, Bobby Meeks, etc.
*picks Mic up off floor. Yes, but if only for the work of C & T Automotive who figured out how to get those heads to work reliably and worked out the flaws of those high-altitude truck cylinder heads. If not for savvy gents like Don Clark and Clem Tebow, the Ardun head would be but a footnote in the history of the Flathead. And as far as Ardun heads being considered "speed equipment", I'd say it was just as much a happy coincidence as the 71-series blowers.
For space limitation reasons they had to pick a number, otherwise the article would have turned into an encyclopedia. After all, they said "Here are five pioneers" and not "Here are the only pioneers."
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