THE ORIGINAL SO-CAL Speed Shop belly tank lakester first raced at the Bonneville Salt Flats in 1948. Fifty-five years later, So-Cal is at it again. This time, instead of using a 315-gallon auxiliary ...

GM and So-Cal Speed Shop first teamed up in 2003 on a Saturn Red Line coupe that grabbed the G/BFALT record with 212.684 mph performance. This dynamic duo followed up that first foray onto the salt ...

Alex Xydias, most known for his SO-CAL Speed Shop, land speed racing, and many other accomplishments, has passed away at 102 years old. He was born in 1922 and by the 1940s he was captivated by the ...

Original hot-rod hero, founder of the So-Cal Speed Shop, WWII veteran, and one of the founders of SEMA and the SEMA Show, Alex Xydias passed away this morning in Southern California. He was 102.