It is official: Effective today, B&M Racing and Performance Products has acquired Hurst . Just in case anyone was interested...Detailed press releases will follow in all the major performance Magazines.

 

now you guys can make the lightning rod shifter for our auto cars...what do you say? please.

 

now you are going to drop the quicksilver & switch to a dual gate

 

quarter stick would be a nice addition but I'll still get the first one when you guys start shipping.

-Dan

 

Hopefully they throw away all the S197 Hurst shifters

 

Pretty soon Keystone Automotive will own everything.

 

PAGING MAVERICK!
PAGING MAVERICK!

I *know* how much Maverick LOVED his B&M shifter!!!

 

WHAT??!? YOU'RE KIDDING!! MY GOD!!! I never would have believed it in a MILLION YEARS!!!!

Except we'd pretty much guessed it from the vague hints you dropped here and there, Chris...

 

Well now that that's settled, hopefully we can get a good shifter for the S197 auto on the market. Waiting patiently. -Joe

 

i knew you all did, but obviously I could not "officially" drop the word

 

We know.

But now for the important question: will B&M now have hot booth babes like Hurst used to? I grew up drooling over Linda Vaughn in Hot Rod issues...

 

we'll see...you wouldn't drool over her now I can tell you that

 

since this is what you mentioned caused the delay to the release of the shifter is there plans to change it, will it be a B&M&H shifter now?

 

I assume that the Hurst name will be kept as will the branding on the products?

 

I'm suprised Mr. Gasket let them go. That doesn't make much sense from their standpoint.

So does Spar and Schuman still own B&M? Or have they sold the company? I can't remember hearing anything about B&M's ownership. I'm glad they bought the interest in Hurst, just keep the products the same.

 

Yeah, I know, she's what - 75 now?? I'm definitely not into geriatrics...

 

Yes, we will keep the brand name and in fact try to build it back up again!..it had lost some of its power in recent years. Still, the alliance between B&M and Hurst now has a huge impact on the aftermarket world and will be huge for us.It is certainly a great legacy for us to carry on!. No, the spar's do not own B&M anymore.
No, the auto shifter will still be a B&M product once released.
And yes, she is definately up there in age...

 

Hey Chris,

Please call me!! I need to discuss the shifter and signing up.

Thanks, Doug.

 

no wonder we haven't seen any hurst shifters out on the market lately.

I did love it, until it disabled me for a week, then broke my tranny linakge, but I'm not going to go back into the past with my B&M shifter, I'm way beyond it and have moved on with my Hurst shifter and still in love with the hurst. since it was a heft penny to repair the tranny linkage out of my pocket. that B&M shifter is as good as gone in a landfill or garbage dump somewhere rotting.

 

Personally I think Hurst lost it when they leased their name to a poorly-designed front-wheel-drive Olds copy of a bad Chevy design twenty years ago!

But that's just me........