GRATIOT back in the day

In the early 70's, I was in the bay area of CA visiting my Dad and brother, driving my AAR, and I needed to pickup a new distributor cap, so I drove to Vic Hubbard's Speed & Marine in Hayward (?). The counter looked like it was 100 ft long. I asked for an HP cap, and the counterman brought out about 10 to choose from. That was some kind of speed shop!