Auto parts stores and speed shops

yeah, I noticed the smoking.... LOL. I didn't work at a auto parts store, but there was a Western Auto I'd go to when I was in my early teens. The store owner talked to me for lengths of time about performance parts, cams, etc. At the time, he had a 9.20 @ 150mph Cordoba drag car. I helped him put his tunnel ram on, and watched him run it at Cordova. He sold the store and went to Coan transmissions to work. Never saw or heard hide or tail from him again.