This week our guest was Blake Foster, President of SpeedTech Performance USA. Speedtech is known for many things, but as of late I’ve noticed a LOT of their product in the field, at SEMA, and at the track. The common denominator: BIG front tires are included in the suspension packaging, even on cars where there is often no practical way to do so (such as an A-Body GM car like a Chevelle or GTO). Blake’s mottos is, “why make great suspension just to run a 245 tire?” With that said…I needed to know more!
Blake grew up in Vancouver, Canada and started his work life in the local Ford dealership. The first project car was a 1953 Ford F100 pickup and his toolset was very basic. Over the years he built many fast cars and at one point he had a full on drag race Mustang with chromoly cage and drag slicks. He wound up selling that car to fund the purchase of his business Killer Customs which mainly did bolt on auto accessories.
A customer asked about doing a full on build and that led into the next phase of complete vehicle builds. One of his suppliers approached him about taking over his business of making and selling go fast parts and Blake made the big move and is now owner of the company SpeedTech Performance USA.
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