Ed Iskenderian at The Museum of American Speed

Curator, Tim Matthews, and Joe McCollough sit down with hot rodding pioneer, Ed Iskenderian and learn about his early inspirations along with his many achievements in the performance speed equipment industry.

[@boghosnubar7070]

He is my father's cousin, and his grandfather is called Melcon. The parents fled the Armenian Genocide and went to California. My father came to Brazil after passing through Argentina. Destiny is like that, choices define our lives. Another 100 years of life to the Armenian ed Iskenderian. Abriss.

[@jasonhemp5747]

This is history and wisdom that cannot be replaced.

[@billyokley6723]

Ed ground me a custom cam for a 1972 Studebaker Lark. I was amazed!! I could call and talk to him, he helped me so much. I found a set of truck valve springs and turned the engine a whopping 7,000 rpm with a Prestolite dual point distributor modified from a Special This engine almost would outrun

[@troynov1965]

Happy 100th Mr. Isky !

[@mazembeent]

Wow what a wealth of knowledge. I met Ed last month at his 101st birthday, such a modest and gracious guy. Thanks for the video

[@alkennedy1124]

Happy B-Day100 years is a lot of camshafts, nice to have been seating with Ed about 5 or 6 times , in my life, mostly at gene winfields m and up at the lake birthday celebration up there at Laneys, , thank for this vlog, thanks BigAl California.praise Jesus grace Christ amen.

[@markeverson5849]

I built my flathead V8 engine on a picnic table outside of my log cabin! I put a JC Whitney rebuild kit in it! I had isky 3/4 race cam ,30 over Pistons, a Mercury stroker crank, I took out of a 53 that was running ,but I ran the Ford Pistons, so I had to run two sets ov head gaskets to keep from hitting the head with the pistons. and I put the engine in my 1950 Club Coupe which I had for 30 years. oh I was a barn painter in Wisconsin and believe it or not!! I found a edy Meyer high-rise Aluminum duce Intake Manifold and I bought it for seventy-five bucks in a granary and ran it

[@thejaaymonator96]

Awesome!! So much knowledge and history!!

[@TheCafeBoy]

Imagine how this guy would have been with a proper education and today’s computers. I’d heard of Isky all my life and not really ever thought about the man himself. I’d love to see this guy speak sometime. Ycats

[@kevinjohnson8758]

One of my old bosses Was friends with Ed. Ed Perlburg Raceland wrench. Learned alot from Ed.

[@jeepin4on4]

Thank You Mr. Isky

[@robertyoung1777]

This is fantastic!

[@user-rr7kl9jz9o]

This wealth of knowledge will be lost forever unless he has taught an apprentice along the way