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Subscribe to our free newsletter and receive regular updates and stories from Kustomrama.For as little as 2.99 USD a month you can become a monthly supporter. Kustomrama is an encyclopedia dedicated to preserve, share and protect traditional hot rod and custom car history from all over the world. In the back they built hot rod engines and also did some other work.' In 2018, early Bell hot rodder Dale Sinner told Sondre Kvipt of Kustomrama that Bell Auto Parts was very popular and guys came from everywhere to buy hot rod parts ' It was not a big store and the store front was probably about 25 feet or so but it was deep. In 1949 Bell Auto Parts was located at 3633 E. When Wight passed away in 1945, Roy Richter became owner of Bell. Cragar, an almost defunct manufacturer of overhead-valve conversion kits for Model Ts and As. ĭuring the depression, George acquired Cragar. The same year they built their first midget race cars, which they campaigned successfully in the U.S. It didn't take long before Bell Auto Parts became the center of racing and rodding activities for the greater Los Angeles area. Bell Auto Parts is one of the first, if not the first, speed shop in the United States. George sold the speed equipment separately under what eventually became Bell Auto Parts. George began removing speed equipment from the junkers he bought. The shop was a combination of salvage yard and machine shop, and it catered to the race crowd in the early days of dry lakes racing. In 1923, George Wight opened an auto parts yard on Gage Avenue in Bell, California.

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