By Robert Bravender
Decades ago the local speed/machine shop functioned as a hub for an area’s performance vehicles—usually before or after they hung out at the local malt shop—but today’s speed shops are only a mouse click away. One such search engine destination: Straub Technologies.
While based in the small Appalachian town of Piney Flats, Tenn., Straub Technologies has achieved a global reach through the internet, selling performance packages of heads, valves, lifters and cams to places as far away as Australia.…
