“Bruce Crower,” says the loquacious Little John Buttera, “gets up every morning, plugs his brain into a 440-am? socket, then goes to work. He’s the quiet, thoughtful, decent center of high-performance information—the kind of guy who will never talk down to you, who will always take the time to ask you probing questions, give you a series of unvarnished answers, and then let you make the decisions on how to proceed.”
The 70-year-old Crower is one of hot rodding’s original thinkers, a man who continues to champion and explore the dynamics of the internal combustion engine—be it finishing a handbuilt OHV conversion for his unrestored ’46 Cushman or finding a home for the radical, two-cycle, five-cylinder, 75-mpg engine that he’s currently developing at his Jamul, California, shop.
Being far out…