Hurst Performance

Hurst Performance, Inc.

Industry	Automobile OEM Automotive aftermarket parts
Fate	Buyout
Successor	Sunbeam Products
Founded	1958
Defunct	1970
Headquarters	Warminster Township, Pennsylvania, United States
Key people	George Hurst
Products	automobile transmission shifters Jaws of Life

Hurst Performance, Inc. of Warminster Township, Pennsylvania, manufactured and marketed products for enhancing the performance of automobiles, most notably for muscle cars.

Hurst produced aftermarket replacement manual transmission shifters and other automobile performance enhancing parts.

Hurst was also an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) supplier for automakers and provided services or components for numerous muscle car models by American Motors (AMC), Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors. Their products were included as standard equipment in AMC's The Machine (also known as the Rebel Machine), AMC AMXs and Javelins, Pontiac GTOs and Oldsmobile 442s, Boss Mustang 302 and the Boss 429, as well as Dodge Chargers, Plymouth Barracudas, and Plymouth Superbirds, among others.

Specialty automobile models produced in cooperation with automakers that incorporated the Hurst logo or name, included:

Hurst Performance was also the inventor of the "Jaws of Life" — a hydraulic rescue tool. The company designed a complete Hurst Rescue System in the early 1970s, a specialty Emergency Medical Services (EMS) apparatus. Based on the AMC Gremlin, it served as a quicker and more compact emergency vehicle, compared to the traditional heavy rescue vehicles used at motorsport race tracks and as a companion vehicle to any highway emergency system.