Edelbrock
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| Private company | |
| Industry | Automotive aftermarket |
| Founded | Beverly Hills, California, USA (1938) |
| Founder | Victor Edelbrock, Sr. |
| Headquarters | 33°50′29.05″N 118°19′55.55″W / 33.8414028°N 118.3320972°WCoordinates: 33°50′29.05″N 118°19′55.55″W / 33.8414028°N 118.3320972°W |
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Key people
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Victor Edelbrock, Jr., Chairman, Wayne Murray, President |
| Products |
Automotive parts Motorcycle Parts |
| Revenue |
 $125.98 million USD (2004) |
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$3.49 million USD (2004) |
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Number of employees
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722 (2004) |
| Divisions | Automotive Motorcycle Russell plumbling Shock absorbers Foundry |
| Website | edelbrock.com |
Edelbrock, LLC is a specialty performance automotive and motorcycle aftermarket parts manufacturer based in Torrance, California. The company has five locations, including four in Torrance: its headquarters, a distribution center and museum, the Russell division (which also houses the shock manufacturing center), and the exhaust plant. Its foundry is in San Jacinto, California.
Vic Edelbrock founded the corporation in 1938. When his desire to increase the performance of his 1932 Ford Roadster led him to design a new intake manifold, friends and fellow drivers soon wanted one as well. This transformed his repair garage into a parts manufacturing enterprise, making one-of-a-kind equipment for automobiles. In many ways, Vic Edelbrock helped to invent the automotive aftermarket parts industry.
Today, Edelbrock manufactures over 8,000 automotive parts for racers and hobbyists, focusing on increased performance. The company relies on online and catalog resellers and thus offers no direct sales for the bulk of its catalog.
Vic Edelbrock Sr. was born in a small farming community of Eudora, Kansas in 1913. After the family grocery store burned down in 1927, he left school at the age of 14 to help support the family by ferrying Model T Fords from Wichita to the many outlying farms in the area. The frequent stops to replace parts that shook loose on the region's dirt roads made him an expert in impromptu repair work. Soon after, he found work in a local repair shop, working as an auto mechanic.
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