I bet there was a KPH somewhere in their inventories. (staying on subject??) Billy Harris ended up heading south to a place called Iuka, MS . He sold his trailer and goods way back when and left some tire tracks and a streak of red ink behind. He was exteremely good with Chevelles, and NOS parts. I remember him talking about his years in the service dept at Brigance or McInerny, remember in the day on Monday morning the 70 Chevelles would be lined up outside the service dept after a hard day at the track Sunday!! Lots of those engines were supposed to be hit with a sledge hammer to destroy them after warranty work, rather than return the cores. Wonder how many got a second life years later! Your list looks like a Vettefest in 1985 many are still with us, Ron, Chuck, Jerry, Doug , Dan and Mike some disappeared, Ralphie had the garage on Ottawa in Harwood Heights and drove a van he called the "Love Machine" I think it was held together by the rust! We used to run laps at the high school at midnight he is an encyclopedia of Firebirds and Pontiacs. Jerry LaShure re-surfaced about 8 years ago and sold me his literature collection and was making sports collectibles. His ex-partner Fred is still buying every big block Chevelle convert he can steal, and has lots of cool cars. Brad Bradley was running the CPX store.You can find him now at
http://wcca.wicourts.gov the others I lost track of, you might know possibly. There also was a local shop that briefly sold GM perf stuff called Parts Performance, The Fiberglass Shop in Addison, and of course there still is the famous Chevy Shop on Cicero AV south of Addison Av. Wonder how many Nickey motors went through those doors at the time! And MSR (Motor Sport Research) didn't they always have a couple of Z28 crossrams in the display case) Madison Classics Gary Esse (king of NOS) and Mainly Vettes and Bill and Dale (the Pekin Boys) probably round out the bunch no wonder there are so many COPO's Yenko's and ZL-1's right here in the area. Its been very active since day 1 with dealers like Mr. Norms Nickey and Jack Douglass and Gibb Chevrolet in the area, not to mention Hult, Dale, Yunkers, and lots of others. zzzzzzzzzzzzz ok wake up everybody