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“The World's Quickest Diesel Pickup Breaks New Ground”Truck Trend - January /February 2009The words "fast" and "diesel" aren't commonly spoken in the same breath. Diesel trucks, the Clydesdales of the truck world, have always been one-dimensional work trucks, clattering engines producing nothing but torque, with lots of black smoke thrown in.
Those cliches are fading fast as a new wave of diesel trucks hits the street.
“Museum exhibit a tribute to Banks' long career”Pasadena Star-News - December 4, 2008POMONA - Gale Banks calls himself a "futurist." So, what is a futurist doing in a museum?
“NHRA exhibit chronicles 50 years of Azusa's Gale Banks Engineering”Pasadena Star-News - December 4, 2008POMONA - There were a lot of horses and a lot of power in a Fairplex museum on Wednesday. But it had nothing to do with a barn.
That's because 50 years of ramping up the internal combustion engine to make it go faster, longer and better went on display in the NHRA Wally Parks Motorsports Museum.
“Gale Banks Engineering pushes to make vehicles more powerful, fuel efficient”Los Angeles Times - September 22, 2008Gale Banks Engineering pushes to make vehicles more powerful, fuel efficient
“Rampage Jackson's '08 Ford”8-Lug - June 2008Mixed martial arts hero, Rampage Jackson, took his ‘08 Ford Super Duty to Banks Engineering and had it fully worked over from head to tail.
“Clean Speed”Diesel Power - February 2008Diesel Power Magazine takes a look inside the world's quickest and fastest diesel pickup.
“One On One With Gale Banks”Diesel Builder - February 2008Straight Talk With the Man Largely Identified as the Creator of the Diesel Aftermarket
“Power Broker”Sport Truck - January 2008Here's a guy who's done it all and done it well, and he has the records to prove it. You'll find his name in the record books for building the fastest pickups on earth.
“Jay Leno's Ultimate Hot Rod”Drive! Magazine - November 2007What happens when you leave a Korean War tank engine sitting too close to the hot rod that you parked over at Gale Banks Engineering?
“Safe At Any Speed”Truck Trend - November 2007When I started in 1958, all engine tuning was a mechanical enterprise. Today, especially in the diesel world, many tuners still rely on retro technology, but I'm not one of them.
