History:

Founded in 1949, Vic Hubbard has had a name well known throughout the Performance Industry as the first Speed Shop in Northern California. Originating as a Speed and Marine Shop with less than 15 different lines, in a 1500 square foot building, which now houses our corporate offices.  Founder Jerry Light was instrumental in bringing the performance market from Southern California to Northern California.

Some of our claim to fame came in the late fifties.  George Poe from TRW did not want their name on a 4" bore 12 to 1 compression piston so Vic Hubbard bought the forging dies to manufacture these pistons for Chevrolet applications.  Vic Hubbard Power Forged Pistons were then distributed throughout the United States.  Once TRW saw the success Vic Hubbard had in selling performance pistons, they came out with their own forged pistons that are sold worldwide.

In the sixties racing was still a specialized market and parts were hard to come by, unless you were part of NASCAR or another racing giant.  Jerry Light found that the 3 barrel Holly used on the 426 HEMI for NASCAR was a popular application that would sell very well.  Jerry took George Bay from Holley to visit Vic Edelbrock Jr.  Jerry and Vic persuaded Holley to build 1000 carburetors for Vic Hubbard in Northern California and Edelbrock in Southern California.

Historically the major manufactures did not want to market racing for the general public, but as you can see Jerry Light had the foresight to pursue this ever popular industry to what it has become today.

FACILITIES      

Vic Hubbard now has a new 35,000 square foot facility in Hayward (Northern California) that we moved into in 1976.  In addition to our retail location, we also have a 25,000 square foot facility in Tustin (Southern California) that we use to service this area.

Within these facilities we have one of the largest inventories in North America, consisting of over 300 different specialty lines, automotive parts and accessories lines.