BANKS POWER

To call Gale Banks an engineer would be an understatement, scientist would be a more accurate term. Those who have seen him work his magic with internal combustion and technology, mad scientist might even be more appropriate. As president of Gale Banks Engineering, an automotive aftermarket and performance equipment manufacturer, Gale Banks has spent more than a half a century improving internal combustion technology in the development of modern motor vehicle engines. As a teenager growing up near Los Angeles in the 50s, blessed with a talent for things mechanical, Gale Banks was naturally drawn to the Southern California Hot Rodders, the do-it-yourselfers who would race their machines in the desert, the dry lakes and the salt flats. It was all about power and speed, two characteristics that would define Gale Banks his whole life.