I was about fifteen at the time, and then about three or four years later, I bought a 1960 Falcon to race.ĭID WATCHING YOUR COUSIN RACE INFLUENCE YOUR DECISION TO START RACING I would go to the races with him two to three times a week, and I would help him. After that, he had a Mustang and then a Maverick. He had an old Ford truck with a Ford engine that we called the Ugly Truckling, and then a 1956 Chevy with a Ford engine that we called the Half Breed. My dad didn't approve of my going racing, but I would go to drag races with my cousin, Merv Moyer.
I did that between the ages of twelve and sixteen or seventeen.īack in the 1960s, there was not a lot of drag racing around our area, but there were a few dirt tracks. We laid bricks, and installed flooring and roofing, and those buildings are still standing today. Well, when I was a kid, my dad was a welder at a local company here in Pennsylvania, and he also built privately-owned apartment units in four different buildings, and I worked with him. WHAT CAME BEFORE ALL OF YOUR SUCCESS WITH SHIFTERS, TRANSMISSIONS AND RACING WE'D LIKE TO START BY CONGRATULATING YOU ON EARNING THE 2020 DART NA 10.5 PRESENTED BY DIAMOND PISTONS CHAMPIONSHIP. Read on for more about the well-respected Long, who brings a wealth of knowledge to the world of motorsports. And, it helped him capture championships in the tough-as-nails category in 2015, 2017, 20. The car, which showcases his company's products, consistently clocks 7.80s in the quarter-mile with a 415 cubic-inch engine with machine work by Ray Barton Racing Engines, assembly by Jay Zolko, Visner Engine Development heads and intake and one of Long's robust and reliable GF2000 clutchless five-speed transmissions. In addition to running a successful business, Long rows gears in his Mustang, quite remarkably, while racing in NMCA Dart NA 10.5 presented by Diamond Pistons. The company also makes electrical connector housing components for the military. Long's company has a building in Cleona, Pennsylvania for manufacturing, sales and service of transmissions and shifters for street cars and drag race cars, and in Asheboro, North Carolina for sales and service of transmissions and shifters for circle track cars. When Leonard Long was a senior at Hershey High School in Pennsylvania in the 1960s, he was planning to be a mechanic upon graduation.īut with some encouragement from his father, he chose to go to vocational school instead, and the skills he acquired there have served him well, as he went on to own and operate Long Machine and Tool, Inc., which includes Long Shifters and G-Force Racing Transmissions.
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