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Total Performance, Inc. manufactures and assembles all their cool custom hot rod parts in just one building located in Wallingford, Connecticut. This building also houses their showroom, administrative offices, and where they do the research and development that has brought street rodders many great products customized for the specific needs of our industry.
Because of the increase in demand for Total's products, due in part to many new product lines, Total Performance, Inc. has expanded its warehouse. The shorter section is the original building. Plans for another addition are already underway.
Presently, their completed addition adds 4,200 square feet with two levels and an employee dining area-almost doubling their square footage! This completed addition houses their new shipping and receiving department and a stock room. The area that these departments were located in will be used to package kits as well as to expand their machine shop and turnkey vehicle assembly area. In the long run, this expansion will help Total ship products to you faster and provide a larger area for their increasing inventory needs.
The next addition will become Total's research and product development department. With the dedication of an entire building to research and development, it is obvious that Total Performance plans on investing a lot more time and money into creating new ideas and new products for the future of street rodding.
If you have any questions contact Total Performance, Inc., Dept. SRM, 400 S. Orchard St., Dept. SRM, Wallingford CT 06492 or visit their Web site at www.tperformance.com. You can also call (203) 265-5667.
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In this day and age if you have a credit card, an 800 number, and a few current hot rod periodicals, you can find all of the parts to build a hot rod by telephone from the comfort of your own home.
This sculpture is of a '32 Ford roadster. It's not unlike one artist Stan Wanlass had during the '50s. He couldn't afford Ardun heads or a SCo.T blower but instead had a Flathead with Edelbrock aluminum heads and dual 97s on an Edmunds intake manifold-later switching to an Olds Rocket with triple carbs. Most of the other things on the sculpture were inspired by the '32s of his buddies.