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Shankle started out over in Van Nuys in a little shop off Cabrito Blvd. I used to run heads down to them for repairs and valve jobs. AR Ricambi bought out the founder and built it in to a thriving business. Made lots of parts runs to them as they were open Saturdays. Gene was my go to guy there as he had a 1600 Veloce. His brother now has the car after he passed away. There were an office of people doing the paper work in the back and a big ware house of parts upstairs. After Gene left I always asked for Julius to make sure we were on the same page for parts.
ARicambi started getting into Honda after market parts as they must have seen the Alfa market slowly drying up with out new cars coming over.
Shankle moved over to the Topanga Canyon area in to a better facility and that is where they merged with ARicambi as stated above. Shankle had come up with a lot of R&D for turbo charging Alfa's, and regrinding cams. Just look at their last catalog and you can see they were into a lot of after market parts.
I heard John Shankle passed away from cancer. Correct me if I am wrong.
Brad lives in the Fresno area and last time I saw him was when I was at Concorso where he was selling parts.
ARicambi started getting into Honda after market parts as they must have seen the Alfa market slowly drying up with out new cars coming over.
Shankle moved over to the Topanga Canyon area in to a better facility and that is where they merged with ARicambi as stated above. Shankle had come up with a lot of R&D for turbo charging Alfa's, and regrinding cams. Just look at their last catalog and you can see they were into a lot of after market parts.
I heard John Shankle passed away from cancer. Correct me if I am wrong.
Brad lives in the Fresno area and last time I saw him was when I was at Concorso where he was selling parts.