History Vic Hubbard Speed & Marine-Head Hunters Hayward CC/

Wow thanks for posting Marcus. I can definatley appreciate the local history. I never knew the original speed shop was next door to Al's, I work across the street at Maier racing.

 

Being anouther Hubbard, i'm glad to see this thread, i wanted to read on him

 

Ron those pics are Friggin incredible man!! Holy Shit! Thanks! Little story of Algon Al Gonsalves son in Law bought a complete Algon set up for a small block that I had that came off an old 56 Chevy Drag Car.He said he was starting a museum or something, he gave me a reproduction Algon decal and I dont know what happened to it.Al GONsalves passed away at the age of 80.

 

AWESOME!!! Thank You!

 

Justin, you're not at JD's anymore? I've been too poor to eat out..lol

 

Wow, Bitchin' - very cool stuff Daddyo - memories of all of the great racing done at Fremont and other semi-local tracks. hear that Ken Harper of Satan's Angels that provided some of the pics is part of the Douglas County Dukes in Nevada now. Thanks

 

Marcus, Thank you. When I was a young whip I pushed my nose through the chainlink at Fremont. These were some very cool video/8mm from back in the day. Wish I could remember more. I have a Fremont jacket and a copy of a Headhunters plaque in my shop. How weird. Kindred spirits(along with our 34's)

 

My father shot all the photographs in the "MARINE EQUIPMENT" section of the 1968 Vic Hubbard Speed & Marine catalog ... Here's the cover and inside front cover of that catalog:

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Here's some pics of the Denny & Jerry Forsberg / Al Hubbard "Vic Hubbard Speed Shop" '35 Austin Bantam Altered:

First time out with the Austin and the Olds engine


The driver's compartment of the Austin: everything from
the bell housing to the steering assembly was hand
fabricated by Jerry and Denny at York's after work.


Al Hubbard, Denny, and Bob Zarth (of 'Purple Death' fuel additive
fame); this picture shows the roadster's dropped front axle and low
height built for the gasoline Olds engine. Denny and Jerry did not
want a lot of weight transfer (shown with Al's Chevy engine).


The Austin in B/FAR trim with straight front axle and raised spring perches.


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NOTE: All images from the WeDidItForLove website​

 

Awesome pics and info. I grew up in san lorenzo, next to hayward, and have frequented both vic's, and al's shops. My grand father's car club, The Toppers of alameda has a plaque on hubbards wall which is still there to this day. I found this sticker on ebay for a buck. I have it above my tool cart.



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Great Stuff guys..keep em coming..I Love it! Thanks!

 

The early Mustang engine in my roadster pictured below and in my avatar was built at the Al Hubbard shop in Hayward on Meekland Ave. in the early '90s. Great engine! I drove shit out of it until I decided to replace it with the '50 Cad. that is in my roadster now. I sold it to a friend about ten years ago. It's still stored away in one of his many garages. He said he would sell it back to me at the same price. Thinking I might install it in my recently acquired 62 Falcon.

 

Does Ashland grinding still exist? They did all of the crank work.

 

Tom Im not sure if Ashland Grinding is still around.That place was great! Crankshafts all over the place.They did the balancing on a couple of my engines.

 

Just googled it and it appears to still be around!

 

This video is outstanding, it starts and ends at Fremont (you push-started down the track), then shifts to Lions...the shots at and after the 3:00 mark are at Pomona.

THANKS FOR POSTING!!!

 

Again, priceless video, mostly from the '59 Smokers meet at Bakersfield, lots of famous cars (Garlits, Chrisman, Lefty, Singer and Miller, etc), and lots of not-so-famous cars, which I like in particular.

 

Thanks 296Ardun for the information and appreciation!

 

I am digging this thread on so many levels. Great pics and footage Marcus. I was so born in the wrong era. Looks like they were having so much fun. If only it could be so simple today. I long for a dragstrip were we could build simple cars like that and run balls out.

 

Thanks!

 

Here are a couple of receipts from the 1970's

 

Thanks for bringing those to Breakfast on Saturday..Very cool you still have those..

 

Very cool history! I grew up in the midwest but always new the Vic Hubbard name from all the ads.

I have a question. I see Jerry Light was the founder but who was Vic Hubbard? Unless I missed it somewhere in the thread which is very possible.

 

Vic was Jerry's stepfather and owned an automotive repair shop.

 

Hey Rocker, some awesome stuff, this is as cool a post as I have ever seen. I viewed those films again and again, seeing so many cool things each time Thanx bro, did you notice the muffler ad next to the V.H. ad showing " besTone" mufflers, kinda like your Rev Tones, cool! ~sololobo~

 

lol..that should be the name of the new Album were recording

 

...of course thirty years ago Maier was down the street and around the corner in the Quonset hut...can't remember what street that was...Bill and Mike have gotten a modest chunk of my money over the years...I really need to get the '65 convertible mobile and over for a rollbar...

 

I thought Maier Racing was always on Meekland but they changed buildings..maybe Im not remembering correctly..I only remember Maier as far back as about 1987 or so

 

Maybe so...my memory of the exact location isn't all that great. I'd thought it was on one of the side-streets off Meekland circa 1978.

 

It might have..