Timeline
- 1913 - Vic Edelbrock, Sr. is born
- 1927 - Family grocery store burns down
- 1931 - Edelbrock moves to California
- 1933 - Edelbrock marries Katie Collins, opens his first repair shop on Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles
- 1934 - Edelbrock moves into a shop on Venice and Hoover in Los Angeles
- 1936 - Vic Edelbrock, Jr. is born
- 1938 - Edelbrock buys a 1932 Ford Roadster and designs the first Edelbrock product: the Slingshot manifold
- 1941 - Sept 28 - Edelbrock sets land speed record in a V8 roadster
- 1941-45 - Edelbrock contributes to the WWII war effort by fabricating parts in the Long Beach shipyard
- 1945 - Edelbrock designs his first aluminum racing cylinder heads for flathead Fords
- 1946 - First Edelbrock catalog published
- 1948 - Edelbrock purchases a Clayton engine dynamometer
- 1950 - Edelbrock moves to its first purpose-built shop on Jefferson Blvd. in Los Angeles
- 1951 - The first streamliner powered by a Flathead Ford to go over 200 mph (320 km/h) is the Edelbrock-equipped Bachelor-Xydias So-Cal Special
- 1958 - Vic Edelbrock, Jr. graduates from USC; Edelbrock is the first to achieve one horsepower per cubic inch
- 1959 - Vic Edelbrock, Jr. marries Nancy Crook
- 1962 - Vic Edelbrock, Sr. dies of cancer at the age of 49
- 1966 - Edelbrock builds a race boat for astronauts Gus Grissom and Gordon Cooper to race on the Salton Sea
- 1968 - Edelbrock moves to El Segundo, California
- 1971-74 - Vic Edelbrock, Jr. serves as president of SEMA
- 1975 - Car Craft names Edelbrock "Manufacturer of the Year"
- 1987 - Edelbrock moves to Torrance, California
- 1990 - Sand cast aluminum foundry built in San Jacinto, California
- 1994 - Edelbrock goes public on the NASDAQ stock exchange. An exhaust division is constructed.
- 1995 - Edelbrock acquires Qwiksilver II and begins manufacturing Harley-Davidson motorcycle products
- 1998 - Edelbrock begins manufacturing shock absorbers
- 1999 - New distribution center opens, including Vic's Garage, a museum of Edelbrock's cars
- 1999 - Forbes names Edelbrock as one of the 200 best small companies
- 2000 - Forbes names Edelbrock as one of the 200 best small companies for the second year in a row
- 2000 - Edelbrock acquires Russell Performance Plumbing
- 2003 - Vic Edelbrock Sr.'s historic original 1932 Ford Roadster is acquired and restored
- 2004 - Edelbrock goes private
- 2007 - The Edelbrock foundry begins construction of a new permanent mold facility
- 2009 - Rob Simons, from Saleen, Incorporated joins Edelbrock to design exclusive integrated superchargers
- 2010 - Industrial Opportunity Partners strategically invests in the Edelbrock Corporation
- 2011 - Edelbrock sells it's line of suspension components to QA1
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