Jack Engle

Jack Engle (June 16, 1920 – November 14, 2008) was a Canadian-born American hot rodder, camshaft grinder, and engine builder.

His father, Ed Engle a construction contractor, moved the family to Santa Monica, California, a few years later.

[4] Engle's first car was a 1926 Chevrolet, fitted with an Oldsmobile cylinder head (a simple, common conversion at the time), which he bought in 1937.

[6] In 1941 Jack had a Model A on T rails with a Cragar headed 4 cyl supercharged B engine that he went 113 MPH and 7.9 seconds in the flying quarter mile 1 week before Pearl Harbor attack.

[7] Jim Travers, Frank Coon (Traco) Phil Remington (Shelby, All American Racers) Howard Wilson, and dozens more.