Skip Walls from Lokar - Tales of a Gearhead Episode 114

July 25, 2024
Tales of a Gearhead
Skip Walls from Lokar

In this second part of Stacey’s interview with the guys from LOKAR Performance Products, Skip Walls hops on the mic with Stacey, and they discuss Skip’s early days in California, building up LOKAR, moving the company to East Tennessee, the current state of the industry & where they see it going, and what Skip thinks makes up a hot rod. Then it’s into the mailbag, where Stacey offers some advice to a listener wondering how to get younger people into cars and trucks.

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