Street Machine

DIRTY STUFF

THERE are not many left out there: old-time engineers of the automotive trade with oodles of technical knowledge amassed over many decades, still working because they love the job and don’t know much of anything else.

I met Gary Johnson almost by chance. I needed some machining done on an old engine block, and the first guy I went to with a modern machine shop

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